Olympus WCON080E B28 Wide Angle Lens
- Includes B-28 0.8x wide converter lens
- 0.8x magnification
- High-end optical performance
- Compatible with most Olympus digital cameras
- Comes with a 43-55mm step-up ring
The WCON-08 Wide Angle Lens extends the capabilities of Olympus award-winning digital cameras. This screw-on wide-angle lens provides 28mm on a 35mm lens or 25mm on a 32mm lens.The Olympus WCON-80E B-28 wide-angle lens is compatible with the Olympus C-2500L, D-620L, D-600L, D-500L, C-2000, and C-2020 Zoom filmless digital cameras. It adds a magnification of 0.8x to the built-in 3x zoom of the C-2500L SLR, D-620L, D-600L, and D-500L. You also get the equivalent of a 29mm lens on the C-2500L, D-620L, and D-600L and the equivalent of a 40mm lens on the D-500L. The B-28 adapter can also be used on the C-2000/2020 Zoom filmless digital cameras. This lens requires the use of a CLA-1 lens adapter tube.
List Price: $ 349.99
Price: $ 149.95
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Good for a Range of Cameras,
I actually own a Panasonic FZ50. This works great with it. It has 55mm Threads so it fits on directly. While it “only” drops it down to 28mm thats really mostly what I need. 28mm is more than you might think.
The distortion is very minimal. It gives clear pictures with very few defects(purple fringing is a problem with some other lenses). The only lens thats better is the one by panasonic, but it cost twice as much. For the money, this is definitely the best buy.
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|Wide angle lens on a C2100UZ,
I agree very much with Mr. Lassiter’s comments. I would just like to add a little info. about using this lens with the Olympus C-2100UZ, because I found the scant information that is available a little ambiguous.
Yes, you can use it with a C-2100UZ. You dont need a CLA-1 adapter, but you do need to shell out for a 49-55mm step-up ring as the one supplied is 43-55mm.
Hope this helps.
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|Oly WCON-08E Wide Angle with 3040Z: A Short Report,
I didn’t “do the homework” on this lens before buying it, and even though it ‘only’ drops the focal length by .8, I’m kind of glad I went ahead and tried it versus some of the other alternatives.
In my research after-the-fact, I’ve seen many say that it’s difficult to significantly shorten the focal length without accepting image quality that ranges from poor to just plain awful.
The good news:
Image quality to MY untrained eye seems identical to that provided by that of the camera’s onboard lens alone.
The bad news:
Everyone familiar with the lens noted the obvious issues of viewfinder and flash blockage. There’s no way to mount anything this big without dealing with those issues.
Other observations:
It’s a lens that’s aesthetically pleasing to handle and the user certainly gets a sense of the quality of workmanship that went into the lens.
Value observations:
It’s not the kind of lens you’d recommend as one of the first purchases on a tight budget. I had at first thought of returning it because of the modest (35->28) improvement offered, but as I evaluated the results and read about other lenses, I decided that a near flawless .8 was probably worth more than shorter focal lengths with obvious problems.
The lens also came with the Oly 43-55mm step up ring, which I needed to buy anyway for the B-300 I’m also getting from B&H, currently on back order.
The Net: I’m keeping the lens. If your camera has an even longer “shortest focal length” then you’ll likely appreciate the lens and use it more often.
And a final curiosity:
Indoors, mounted on tripod with a fixed aiming point, the 3040Z would routinely fire the flash with the built in lens, and would NOT use the flash with the wide-angle mounted.
This came as a surprise, since I’d read that adding lenses usually results in LOSS of light to the camera. If anything I might have guessed the opposite result flash wise, even though the lens is advertised as working ‘without reducing aperture’.
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