Raynox x2.2 zoom lens for use with Sony F828

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I'm thinking about buying the zoom lens on this page
http://www.raynox.co.jp/english/digital/f828/ the top right one DCR-2020PRO 2.2XHigh
Definition Telephoto Conversion Lens.

A few questions:

1: What is the quality of Raynox lenses? Anyone with any experience of them? I'm a newbie
to lenses and do not know of them.

2: Are there dealers in the UK? If so, who are they?

3: Has anyone tried the lens with the F828?

Any info much welcomed.

Dean.

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shoulda mentioned the TCON300 is a weird lens, and would be very
diffficult to fit to any but it's intended cameras (E10/20 I think)..

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"Baked Bean" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:cretal$8j8$1@titan.btinternet.com...
> I'm thinking about buying the zoom lens on this page
> http://www.raynox.co.jp/english/digital/f828/ the top right one DCR-2020PRO 2.2XHigh
> Definition Telephoto Conversion Lens.
>
> A few questions:
>
> 1: What is the quality of Raynox lenses? Anyone with any experience of them? I'm a newbie
> to lenses and do not know of them.
>
> 2: Are there dealers in the UK? If so, who are they?
>
> 3: Has anyone tried the lens with the F828?
>
> Any info much welcomed.

This link below is a good site discussing various telephoto/wide angle adaptors. It doesn't cover the
Raynox lens you mention and is slanted towards the Panasonic FZ10 but you will find good information
there for deciding whether you want to spend that kind of money on a long range zoom and the types
of problems you might to run into adapting and using it with your camera . I nearly bought the 2020
pro for my camera a few days ago and am now holding off until I do a little more research on the
subject. After reading through the site I am now leaning more towards the Canon TL and Olympus
TCON lenses, but haven't made up my mind yet.

http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiC [...] index.html

Just so you don't think I am dissing Raynox, I just ordered their DCR 6600 pro wide angle lens which
should arrive tommorow and I haven't totally written off the 2020 yet either.

www.bhphotovideo.com carries many of the Raynox lenses and will do international shipments.

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On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 20:12:05 +0000, Baked Bean wrote:

> I'm thinking about buying the zoom lens on this page
> http://www.raynox.co.jp/english/digital/f828/ the top right one
> DCR-2020PRO 2.2XHigh Definition Telephoto Conversion Lens.
>
> A few questions:
>
> 1: What is the quality of Raynox lenses? Anyone with any experience of
> them? I'm a newbie to lenses and do not know of them.

I think it's fair to say they don't have the reputation of the more
well-known lens manufacturers. On the other hand, I've got one of their
polarizers and the DCR-720 0.72x wide-angle lens, and I think they're good
VFM.

> 2: Are there dealers in the UK? If so, who are they?

Jessops. You can try them in the store, in my experience. If they don't
have one in, they'll get it in for you with no obligation to buy. If
you're blessed with multiple Jessops stores in your town or city, some of
them can find out what the other stores have in stock.

> Dean.

Best Regards,
Alex.
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