Panny SD100 Wide Angle Conversion

mactreouser · 15th March 2009

Hi,

Any SD100 user here?
I wanna know that do you using any Wide Angle and Tele Angle Conversion? seems panasonic have no any Wide and Tele conversion in the market, only third party...is it?

need your recommendation.

jaegersing · 16th March 2009

Originally Posted by mactreouser

Hi,

Any SD100 user here?
I wanna know that do you using any Wide Angle and Tele Angle Conversion? seems panasonic have no any Wide and Tele conversion in the market, only third party...is it?

need your recommendation.

Panasonic do make conversion lenses. Below is a couple of links to suitable 37mm lenses for the SD100.

http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/Panasonic-VW-...QQcmdZViewItem

http://www.twenga.co.uk/dir-Photo,Le...erter-lens-199

Willystt · 19th April 2009

There are many third party wide conversion lenses with conversion 0.5X or lower, while the original manufacturers usually come with conversion of 0.7x or higher. One might be tempted to go for this 0.5x conversion and the price is usually much much cheaper. A word of caution, the cheaper one with a wider conversion is typically of poorer quality, resulting in unacceptable colour fringing ( bluish fringing ), so recommend to get the more expensive original manufacturer ones. If you have spent more than a thousand dollars for a camcorder, I am sure you would not mind spending over $200 to get a quality conversion lense, rather than those cheap $ 50 conversion lense.

15th March 2009	#1
mactreouser Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 233	Panny SD100 Wide Angle Conversion Hi, Any SD100 user here? I wanna know that do you using any Wide Angle and Tele Angle Conversion? seems panasonic have no any Wide and Tele conversion in the market, only third party...is it? need your recommendation.

19th April 2009	#3
Willystt New Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Singapore Posts: 3	Re: Panny SD100 Wide Angle Conversion There are many third party wide conversion lenses with conversion 0.5X or lower, while the original manufacturers usually come with conversion of 0.7x or higher. One might be tempted to go for this 0.5x conversion and the price is usually much much cheaper. A word of caution, the cheaper one with a wider conversion is typically of poorer quality, resulting in unacceptable colour fringing ( bluish fringing ), so recommend to get the more expensive original manufacturer ones. If you have spent more than a thousand dollars for a camcorder, I am sure you would not mind spending over $200 to get a quality conversion lense, rather than those cheap $ 50 conversion lense.