On 12 Dec 2001 22:16:53 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote:

>"Tony Spadaro" writes:
>> I gather ther is a slight change of exposure but nothing like the full stop
>> needed by a 1.4x rear converter. Front converters have been notoriously bad
>> in 35mm cameras for decades. I would try for something matched to the
>> particular lens, and then would not expect much anyway. Things might have
>> changed but if the converter is not matched to the lens pretty well there is
>> no way it can function well.

(Doesn't anyone bother to read earlier answers in these thread...???
Seems like a bunch of us gave identical answers, above...;-)

>Thanks. Interestingly, Olympus sells the same 0.8x front converter
>for several of their 4 megapixel digicams, comparable to 35mm cameras.
>That's the one I was thinking of getting, though it's just for a 1.5MP
>digicam. If I tried it on an SLR lens I wouldn't expect much--it
>would just be as an experiment.

It is a good converter, as others have pointed out (;-]),
for around 35mm equivalent (to the c.45mm equivalent of
video camera lenses), but it is large, and *only* .8X.
A useful ".6X" (often about .5X on video cameras, though)
cheap and light WA is the VCL-ES06 made by Sony for the
Mavica - it works well with many video cameras (with
spacers added to flatten the focus field), but it is not
"zoom-through".