On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 18:24:56 -0000, "Steve Richer" wrote:

>I have been quoted £49 for a Kenko convertor lens set with a 1.5x and a
>0.43x
>
>Does this sound like a good deal? Will the quality be reasonable? Will the
>wideangle be very fisheye?

Make sure they are the proper thread size to fit your
camcorder, or can be adapted with step up rings; it
is hard to predict compatibility and good image quality
even when both the converters and the camcorder are known
to be high-quality; ".43X" is a fisheye (I like them),
but almost no WA converter will be without strong
line curvature off center (but this is not necessarily
a disadvantage - go to "I babble" at the URL below and
look for the articles on perspective, and
perspective-correction, for more on why...).