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Olympus WCON080E B28 Wide Angle Lens

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Product Description:

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

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Olympus WCON080E B28 Wide Angle Lens

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.

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Warranty:
Manufacturer: Olympus
Model No: WCON-08E B-28
Dimensions: 3.7 x 4.7 x 4.7 inches. 0 pounds.

Customer Reviews

I like it, but...

I also use it on an FZ50. The only problem I have found is that it is very easy to get sunglare in your images because the glass is so large and mounted so far forward and it would be difficult or impossible to mount a sunshade given the angle of coverage and the size of the front element and the lack of front threading.

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.

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.

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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