My new/old camera



and with the Olympus WCON-08B (designed for the E10-E20)it took an adapter
from 43mm to 62mm on the CLA-1...there is a Wide angle .7X designed for this series
but I had the WCON-08B which is .8X - although losing about 3mm (35mm eqv.)
it gives roughly 25mm wide and zoomed about 77mm eqv. at full zoom.
It does look a bit weird. The lens is bigger than the camera and
certainly heavier...but what the heck it works.
Makes it almost impossible to use the optical viewfinder.


https://pbase.com/madlights/image/112534146

and here it is with the WCON 0.7 Wide Angle Adapter attached
This one seems to have more barrel distortion (easy to correct with Pano Tools)
I think because it's not as physically wide as the WCON-08 series
the glass has more curvature to it also,
and it goes to 22.4mm (35mm equiv.) instead of 25.6mm
I've been leaving it on all the time, and haven't found any focus issues yet
so it makes the camera in 35mm terms a 22.4 to 67.2mm camera
I broke down and bought a used lens for about 1/4 the price of a new one
and like the camera it seemed almost brand new. I've used the WCON-08B
on my DSLR with a 19-35 lens to give it a stop gap wide angle capability
and it works pretty well with that lens, not much chromatic aberration at all
although flair is a problem...but then guess it is with a lot of wide angles.
Here's it without the conversion lenses:
http://www.pbase.com/madlights/image/112323496
http://www.pbase.com/madlights/image/112207178
And here's a couple of shots taken with both lenses:
First the WCON-08B :
http://www.pbase.com/madlights/image/112680510
Secondly the WCON-0.7 :
http://www.pbase.com/madlights/image/112966163
http://www.pbase.com/madlights/image/112674339
http://www.pbase.com/madlights/image/112932777
http://www.pbase.com/madlights/image/112913990