Filter adapter for G11, suggestions?

[timmciglobal]

Looking for a good filter adapter tube for G11, what suggestions? I hear the canon one is a p.o.s. so looking at third party. Ideally like to order from B&H, Amazon, Roberts or another reputable dealer but will go to ebay if it's worth it too.

Thanks,

Tim

[denncald]

Most go hunting on www.lensmateonline.com , but others have found sources on eBay, etc. Lensmate has a good reputation, so they tend to be the primary source. You will discover that you can not just buy one filter adapter, you need up to three tubes.

Dennis

[timmciglobal]

Thanks!

Ordered the 72mm version.

Thanks,

Tim

[denncald]

Glad you found what you needed. I have a G9, and I only need one tube size for filters and lenses. I also have a tele and a wide conversion lenses with their own tubes, so I have three total. However, I think I am about to buy a G11, and will probably follow you down the tri-tube road. My C-Pl filter vignettes a little at my widest zoom (35 mm eq.) on a 58 mm adapter tube, so the 72 mm for the G10/G11 makes sense, but is large.

Dennis

[j_chu]

I have a question about the G11 lens compatibility guys. I'm using a G9 now with the lensmate adapter for the Canon wide angle lens and teleconverter. If I get a G11, could I still use the Canon wide lens and teleconverter from my G9 on it? Any compatibility issues? I'm okay with buying a new set of lensmate adapters, I just don't want to buy new wide and tele lenses 'coz that would already get pretty expensive. Thanks.

[John Baker]

After some extensive testing I have found that the Canon wide works really well with the G11 - WC-DC58B (0.75 converter) - which takes the camera from 28mm down to 21mm. I use an Olympus teleconverter (Tcon 1.4) but I have found that most of the good quality products work on any of these cameras, all it takes is having a step-up or step-down ring to change the size of the mount.

Re tubes – I picked up an excellent Chinese set – from D-SLR-a (http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/D-SLR-a__W0QQ_armrsZ1)
- The difference with these is that the final filter size is 77mm, the Lensmate are a rather restrictive 72mm and expensive. I can fit a normal polar filter on the 77mm version and use the lens at full wide-angle without any problem.

[j_chu]

Thanks for the responses. Now I'm more confident in buying a G11 knowing that I can still use my converters. Buying 3 adapters instead of just 1 adds up the cost though. Any recommendations on what Macro Lens to use?

[John Baker]

Thanks for the responses. Now I'm more confident in buying a G11 knowing that I can still use my converters. Buying 3 adapters instead of just 1 adds up the cost though. Any recommendations on what Macro Lens to use?
Re buying 3 tubes - The Chinese set I bought cost around $20 for the full set of three, so was not expensive. Less that the cost of a single other brand tube!
Re Macro – depends what you want, the camera will close focus at the wide end, but you will almost be touching the object. To get some distance between you and the subject I would suggest Close Up Lenses – the best you can get are called Achromatic, which have two glass elements - for far more detail have a read of this (http://freenet-homepage.de/seemolf/achromats.html) - these allow you to go close at the telephoto end of the range. I have successfully used a number of sizes down to 49mm without problem, you will need a stepping down ring, but they are not expensive – that filter was the excellent Konica-Minolta CL49-200 which allows the camera to focus to 25cm at the 140mm lens setting.