The japanese website Trendy.Nikkeibp (Click here) tested the new Olympus lens converters. You can find image samples starting from page three of the review.
Olympus started to ship the converters and some of them are already in Stock! Check out those direct links:
Olympus Macro Converter at [shopcountry 21293]
Olympus Wide Lens Converter at [shopcountry 21292]
Olympus Fisheye Converter at [shopcountry 21289]
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Links go directly to google translate in italiano.
not compatible with panasonic lenses? T____T
Those test shots don’t look very good on the fisheye. The CA is so bad you can almost see a ghost image. Still, I’m sure I’m not the target audience for that adapter.
It basically stretches any little ca the original lens had already to extremes, so nothing strange there. It’s just a adapter. Expensive one tho.
Funny how the ‘wideangle’ basically is a reverse of the fish-eye. And really not very wide at all if you ask me :/.
Well the lenses have a 40.5mm thread, that could be interesting to test the wide angle with the Pentax C-mount 6mm !
Not, the is 37mm !
Well, if it a 37mm thread, then at least we can use the attachments to make videos on the iPhone 4…
http://www.wantowle.com/
The wide angle is not a 37mm but a 40.5mm thread, it has been made to suite the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6.
Sebfarges:
The new 14-42mm mark 2 has a 37mm filter thread. The original 14-42mm micro 4/3rds lens had a 40.5mm filter thread. As far as I know, the wide angle and fisheye adapters will only fit on the 14-42mm mark 2 lens. The macro adapter will fit on the 14-42mm mark 2, the 40-150mm, and the 14-150mm micro 4/3rds lenses.
they seem kind of novel and maybe useful but the price seems high.
Quality on the wide angle exceeds my wildest expectations. Something to consider instead of the 9-18mm.
Yeah, hopefully they’ll make more lenses with 37mm threads, primes especially. It’s kinda stupid to me to make converters for zooms, which provide multiple focal lengths anyway.
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