Comment on Digital Concepts 0.45X Professional 43mm Wide Angle HD Lens with Macro Reviews by MegaReader.
Meh…worth the $, couple of limitations,
Customer Video Review Length:: 4:20 Mins
It’s OK….I mean, what do you really want / expect for $13? I just bought it and tested it out a bit. Seems like it’ll be useful for indoor shots where you want to get a group of people or a whole room in the shot and don’t want to run out of room backing into the corner of the room. There is one serious limitation. The vignetting is so severe that it makes this into basically a special effects lens and not something you’d leave on the camcorder on a regular basis. I mean, that amount of vignetting cannot be used on a regular basis, so I’m still gonna have to get a good-quality wide angle lens at some point. As far as whether it is .45x or .8x as discussed in other reviews, I don’t know the numbers, but I’ve posted a video here that demonstrates what it can do – in this case, expand the horizontal field of view at 4.5 feet by 18 inches, which seems like a lot. Actually, I’d be pretty happy with the whole deal if not for the vignetting, which is just awful. But, 4 stars because how demanding can you really be for this price?
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