On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:36:10 GMT, "Barry Comer" wrote:

>I need some advice on which wide angle lens to buy
>for my VX2000. Something like a 0.7 would be best
>since I want as little fish-eye effect as possible while
>being able to capture more of a room then the stock
>lens allows. This is for semi-professional work so
>the $49.95 k-mart special is not of interest.

See: www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/sony_dcr-vx2000.htm
The least distortion WA converter is the Raynox
HD6600-58 .66X (but it has ghosting problems); the
highest-quality "inexpensive" WA converter is the
Canon WD-58 (but it has considerable barrel
distortion - often not necessarily bad, though - see:
www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/perspective-correction.htm
and the related URL for "On Seeing and Perspective");
the Sony VCL-0758HG is good, but expensive (and has
some barrel distortion); the Sony VCL-ES06 (with
58mm->52mm step-down ring) is excellent, small, light,
cheap, and the widest of the above, but the linear
distortion is considerable, and it is not
zoom-through). Some frame-grabs with some of these
are at the URLs referenced... Also, some of the
"K-Mart specials" in fisheye .42X converters actually
are quite good...;-)