Wide, Tele & Close-up lens test!

[JonR]

Went out last weekend and tested the:
- Close-up lens
- Tele add-on lens
- Wide add-on lens
for my Yashica GTN.

Overall I am pretty impressed - quality came out much better than I expected - even if the difference compared with the normal lens is not enormous. Costed me less than 30 USD on Ebay so maybe something some of you want to test!

Attached a few examples.

Jon

 

[Harlee]

Aux Tele

Aux Tele

The pictures look very sharp Jon. I recently shot one with my aux. tele on my GTN and it too came out very sharp. Have you ever tried screwing either of those two lenses on the front of a 55MM SLR lens. The results are really pretty good. Harlee

 

[KoNickon]

The main downsides to these are 1) they're a bit slow to use (having to adjust the distance settings on the camera) and 2) the wide isn't very wide, and the tele isn't very tele. But optically they are quite good.

 

[JonR]

Agree!
And the guy I bought them from actually used them on a normal Pentax SLR camera with 55 mm lens. He claimed good results on them too!

I am sure I will not use them a lot but I am impressed with the results and especially the close-up lens is neat!



Jon

 

[owlsplace]

Pretty nice results Jon. Is the structure a greenhouse? Nice design.
Roger

 

[dennisinst.louis]

Dang you guy's just gave me an idea,i have an olympus t-con 17 1.7x with 55mm threads that i used with my old UZI-c2100.I may have to try this on my gsn and lynx as i also have a 58 to 55mm step down ring.

 

[Shanghied]

Agree!
And the guy I bought them from actually used them on a normal Pentax SLR camera with 55 mm lens. He claimed good results on them too!

I am sure I will not use them a lot but I am impressed with the results and especially the close-up lens is neat!



Jon

Nice!! Pimped😱