S2/3 Ebay Wide Angle Lens Examples?

[petermcjoe]

I have searched, read and realize lots of people hate on the fisheye/wide angle lenses that are sold on ebay. But I have not seen any actual pictures taken with any of these lenses. I know that they are not going to be the best quality, but I would like to see first hand just how bad some people say they are. So if you have any pictures taken with these lenses for the S2/3, could you please post them and specify the model name, thank-you.

[petermcjoe]

anyone? need to see some pics becuase I'm actually thinking about buying one, just becuase I won't be able to get a DSLR for years to come.

[Aray_Of_Art]

I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but my wide angle I got from Amazon.com and it is by Opteka. The lens is a .45x high definition II wide angle lens 58mm.
I have posted four examples, two are with lens on and no zoom. And two with the zoom on full of the same subject.
No zoom....
http://www.bytephoto.com/photopost/data/500/7700IMG_1391_1_1-med.JPG
Full zoom...
http://www.bytephoto.com/photopost/data/500/7700IMG_1392_2_1-med.JPG
No zoom...
http://www.bytephoto.com/photopost/data/500/7700IMG_1395_1_1-med.JPG
Full zoom...
http://www.bytephoto.com/photopost/data/500/7700IMG_1396_2_1-med.JPG

[threadhead]

@Aray_Of_Art - Thanks for posting those! Looks like they are pretty worthless for the telephoto shots, but that's not what you really got it for, huh. The wide shots look pretty clear. Compared to wide shots without the Opteka, can you see an CA or blurriness when you use the Opteka?

[petermcjoe]

Aray_Of_Art yes that is what I was looking for thank you, but are those pictures cropped at all?

[Aray_Of_Art]

Honestly I can't really tell the difference between the lens on or off. I think it does do something, but not a great deal that you go; "Wow! I have a fish eye lens on!" ;)
I think with the little I have played with it, the only time I really notice the distortion is indoors. The room will be very sharp around the middle, but as you get out to the outer edges things start to "spin" and strech out. I have done outdoor shots of flowers with this lens and the edges all look like I have spun the camera around a center point.
Hope that helps. I'd post more shots, but I am having trouble with my image hosting at the moment. :(

[Aray_Of_Art]

Cropped?
Not really. They are compressed to fit the image size, rule thingy. But I didn't cut them down in any way. They are this way from the camera.

[petermcjoe]

please post more pictures if you fix your image hosting problem

[Aray_Of_Art]

please post more pictures if you fix your image hosting problem

ok..........

[Aray_Of_Art]

Well, I can't get one image hosting to work, :evil: so I'm trying another. These pics are not as big as I'd like. But one is indoors, and isn't too bad. The other is of flowers and you can see the upper right corner looks all blured and "spun". But I can't remember if the zoom was on or not, I want to say that it wasn't. And neither one was cropped in any way.

Flowers....
http://www.bytephoto.com/photopost/data/500/7700strangespin.JPG
Indoors.....(I was taking quick test shots, so I'm sorry about the lighting/softness)
http://www.bytephoto.com/photopost/data/500/7700indoors-med.JPG

[Aray_Of_Art]

This one is the same flowers, but with out any lens...
http://www.bytephoto.com/photopost/data/500/7700IMG_0552_1_1.JPG

[Aray_Of_Art]

Ok, I think I have the image hosting problem taken care of. Neither of these images are cropped or changed in any way other than resized to fit the posting limits.

Here is with the wide angle lens on, indoors. (Please note, I have no idea why this image has the edge of the lens showing, never happend to me before.)

http://www.picturehosting.org/images/Rayes/test.jpg


Here is the same shot, from the same spot and same settings, without the lens on.

http://www.picturehosting.org/images/Rayes/test2.jpg