anyone used a cokin magnefix lense?

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"Ian Hurst (Troyka)" <ywr@spamtrap.com> writes:
> Anyone used a cokin magnefix lens? I want a wide converter for my
> canon a80 and thought this may be a good solution. Anyone have
> experience of them on the a80 or other camera?

I did a survey of WA-converters for compacts a while ago - as
blogged here:
http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~gisle/blog/index.php?p=6

My conclusion is that in addition to the converters from the major
camera manufacturers, there seem to be just four non-toy brands
out there: Kenko, Raynox, Tiffen and Hakuba.

I've never seen an evaluation of the Cokin Magnefix, but judging by
the look of the thing (not a very reliable method - I know) it appears
to be cheap and nasty - a bit like those "Titanium" thingies they sell
on eBay.
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- gisle hannemyr [ gisle{at}hannemyr.no - http://folk.uio.no/gisle/ ]
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