Bring the action closer to you without moving at all. This high quality, all-glass lens will give your pictures maximum sharpness and world-class image quality. This accessory works with the following products: DX4900 DX4530 DC210 LS443 DC5000 DC240 DC265 DX3600 DX7630 DX6440 DC290 DC3400 DX4330 DC260 DC280 DC120 DX3900 DX6340. All Cameras that do not have a 37mm built-in filter thread require an Adapter to use this lens.
1 Just what the Dr. ordered.
I just received this lens a few days ago and have only taken a half dozen pictures with it since but I'm very impressed with the increased clarity that this lens provides over relying on the digital enhancements of the DX7440. This lens provides me with up to 8x optical zoom on top of the 4x built in to the camera. For the DX7440 you do need the lens adapter and you will have 'tunnel vision' if you leave the camera zoomed out, but the whole point on this lens it to increase the zoom already on the camera. Why put a 2x lens on a camera and not use the 4x built in? The instructions state that you need to use the LCD display on your camera to frame your shot but that is true with any digital, the viewfinder isn't like an SLR camera that reflects from the viewfinder down through the lens. If you own a DX7440 this is an excellent addition to an already outstanding device.
2 Works great!
I was very hesitant when I bought this lens for my dx7440 camera. I didn't think it would work. However when I tested it I was amazed! It definitely does what it is suppose to do, and doubled my zoom.
4 stars because it is not to god at pictures indoors without natural light. Made them very dark, but this is the type of thing you really use in an outdoor setting anyway.
Even came with a lens bag.
3 Kodak Lens Adaptor for EasyShare DX4330
If you are purchasing this product for use with the Kodak DX 4530 then the Kodak Lens Adaptor for EasyShare DX4330 is required to fit them together.
4 Great Product!
I just got this lens and used it with my Kodak DX4530. It took very good photos on the Auto setting. Got a few nice wildlife pictures. It's important to follow the instructions in the manual: (1) to use the optical zoom so that the picture fills the entire view and (2) to use the LCD screen. The blocking of the view finder with the accessory lenses is not unique to Kodak. It happens with other point-and-shoot cameras because of their design. If you want to do more with your point-and-shoot camera, this is a good way to go.
5 The other review has one inaccuracy
I just received my lens, and I read the instructions. You have to use your zoom button and zoom all the way out in order to get a full picture. This is the first thing noted in the instructions. If you don't, you will, as the other review said, get a picture that only fills the center of the view--the rest will be black. It definitely pays to read the instructions. This is actually a good tool--I took a few pictures of the same shot with and without, and the extra zoom is significant.
6 Vignetting is a BIG problem
Cut-off corners should NEVER be a problem with a lens accessory marketed by Kodak for its own cameras. Auxiliary lenses are available from other makers including Sunpak. Perhaps they will show less vignetting or none at all. In any case, blocking part of the viewfinder is inevitable, as is some image softening with any accessory lens - even the superb Schneider-Kreuznach optics once made for the classic little Kodak Retina IIIC of the 1950s.
7 It could have been better ...
I have got a KODAK DX4530 and I bought an adapter and this telephoto lens. I agree with William Stapleton's review on this lens. The "tunnel vision" is very bad and the view in the optical viewfinder is really blocked (I would say 1/3). I am actually very disappointed with that. I haven't taken any pictures yet but I guess I will need to buy more batteries for using the LCD screen. On the other hand if you zoom in the subject is 6x closer as it should be on the optical zoom. That is the only advantage of the lens.
8 Severely restricted field of view
I bought this telephoto lens and a lens adapter ring to use with a Kodak Easyshare DX4900, which I like very much. With the adapter and telephoto lens in place, pictures taken by the DX4900 appear in "tunnel vision" with a significant portion of the field of view blocked by the telephoto lens housing and a small area in the center of the picture magnified at the advertized 2x. The adapter *should* have been made with a wider field of view so that the picture would fill the entire field of view of the built-in lens. The adapter ring and telephoto lens are also so large that they block approximately one-fourth of the view in the optical viewfinder, which I use exclusively to maximize battery life. I will be looking for another lens somewhere.
