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BBoi
8th of March 2007 (Thu), 20:46
What happens when you attach an 0.6 wide lens directly in front of a .5 wide lens ?

Anyone tried ? does it widen your shot or is a futile measure.
boink
8th of March 2007 (Thu), 23:31
bends space and time :(

I honestly don't know, sorry, hope the answer comes!
SkipD
9th of March 2007 (Fri), 04:50
What happens when you attach an 0.6 wide lens directly in front of a .5 wide lens ?

Anyone tried ? does it widen your shot or is a futile measure.I believe your question is regarding add-on adapters. Folks in this forum use SLR's with interchangeable lenses and generally do not use adapters like you are thinking of.

You would be more likely to get an answer in the point-n-shoot forums, in my opinion.
BBoi
9th of March 2007 (Fri), 09:37
Can you point me at the P&S forum ? I don't seem able to find it, or see it.

thanks.
Jon
9th of March 2007 (Fri), 09:41
You generally won't be able to since they each have a specific rear thread diameter and that's smaller than the front diameter. Even if you could, the image quality would be abysmal, since using only a single wide adapter will show distortion at the corners. Using two stacked would magnify this.
Saudidave
9th of March 2007 (Fri), 10:46
I believe your question is regarding add-on adapters. Folks in this forum use SLR's with interchangeable lenses and generally do not use adapters like you are thinking of.

You would be more likely to get an answer in the point-n-shoot forums, in my opinion.

Someone is confused, he is in the P & S forum!
JustShootin'
9th of March 2007 (Fri), 10:55
Someone is confused, he is in the P & S forum!

That's what I was thinking, but then I just figured the thread had been moved here from somewhere else or something ?? :confused:
BBoi
9th of March 2007 (Fri), 11:09
Yeah it was moved, my bad, when I saw the forum description of "Everything about accessories for Canon digital" I just clicked it - the EOS bit didn't register much since I wasn't speaking about EOS or pro DSLR gear at all, I figure even EOS users would probably be using the same filter-thread based addons.

Still, I know now.

Reason I asked is I have a wide lens at .5 and have seen in the local rag, a .6 which fits the .5's filterside thread. I was hoping for a much wider field spread. Still, don't find out unless you ask :) - and I have plenty more questions as I gather my gear.

Thanks chaps.