canon ds 8 c8 wide angle adapter

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canon ds 8 c8 wide angle adapter

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Hello took the dive & got the canon ds8 zoom , really nice ! A heavy beast of a camera .
is there a way of using a c8 wide angle adapter / did canon make one for this lens ?
As all I can find is a tele adapter .
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AFAIK all versions of the C8 require a camera-lens with macro mode on the widest angle.

There are some third party wide angle adapters for lenses that don’t have a macro mode.
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jpolzfuss wrote: Thu Sep 24, 2020 8:48 pm AFAIK all versions of the C8 require a camera-lens with macro mode on the widest angle.

There are some third party wide angle adapters for lenses that don’t have a macro mode.
Hello jpolzfuss , Any idea which thrid party wide angle adapter would work ? or am I looking at a needle in a haystack !
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This Kenko is supposed to do the trick:
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(Screenshot from Facebook)

It’s available on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0006L49CI/re ... lFbE35FGVE

But I have not tried it myself!

If I remember correctly, then its rear thread is 52mm. So your camera should have a 52mm filter thread or smaller (larger might cause vignetting).
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There are also several wide angle adapters from Raynox that are large enough and that don’t seem to require a macro, e.g. this one:
http://www.raynox.co.jp/english/video/h ... index.html
But again, this is untested... :ymsigh:
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jpolzfuss wrote: Fri Sep 25, 2020 8:31 am There are also several wide angle adapters from Raynox that are large enough and that don’t seem to require a macro, e.g. this one:
http://www.raynox.co.jp/english/video/h ... index.html
But again, this is untested... :ymsigh:
Thank you jpolzfuss , Good to know, Will look in to this !
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