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TCON-17 setting on the XZ-1

Started 9 months ago | Discussions thread
Brian Chichester
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Re: TCON-17 setting on the XZ-1

Elliott,

Thank you for your comments. I would agree that the Zuiko lens on the XZ-1 is very good, particularly in the way it retains a wide aperture all the way to the tele extreme.

As regards the Ricoh converter, the jury is still out on the performance. My test shots were merely to show that it would focus on the XZ-1 and did not vignette. I will try some more tests of resolution at a later date. It's not so much ultimate detail resolution that I want as consistency across the frame.

Using the menu option (and there is only one option – the XZ-1 does not support wide converters) zooms out the lens and alters the exif data – it gives the FL as 40.8mm, though the combined lens in my case is probably about 36mm. More useful to me is that it beefs up the onboard IS to allow for the longer FL (though it's not quite as long as the camera thinks it is).

This is a fun project on the side, but the appeal of the XZ-1 for me lies very much in the superb lens and very small size.

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