Take in nearly twice the field of view compared to your standard camera lens at its widest setting. This high quality, all-glass 37 mm lens lets you take wide-angle, razor-sharp pictures. This accessory works with the following products: DX4900, DX4530, DC210, LS443, DC240, DC265, DX3600, DX6440, DX7630, DC290, DX4330, DC260, DX3500, DC12,0 DX3900 & DX6340. All Cameras that do not have a 37mm built-in filter thread require an Adapter to use this lens.
1 Great for the price!
I agree with the other reviews. I am an architect who takes many architectural photos, both interior and exterior. While I cannot say a digital camera can replace a traditional SLR camera and the wide angle lens is as versatile as the ones I have used for SLR, it works surprising good. With some photoshop tweaking, this lens can take some beautiful pictures, it is crisp and added great value to my digital camera. It is true that the pictures are very dim even with flash but by changing the speed and the exposure time on the the digital camera, the problem is easily solved. If you don't have additional light and the scene is dark, you probably need to increase the exposure time so much that you need a tripod. Most of the time, using night scene on your digital camera would suffice. General speaking, it adds a lot of value to my digital camera for $50. I recommend it!
2 Suprisingly good sharpness & image quality
Hesitated to buy because (a) it's relatively low cost and (b) I generally don't buy accessories from mega-companies. The bottom line is that this wide angle converter with the Kodak point-and-shoot DX7630 produces pictures that are sharp to the corners, with only a little softening at the far edges.
For most wide angle shots -- landscapes, cityscapes, crowd scenes -- you wouldn't notice the very slight defocusing in the last 50-80 corner pixels (across the 2,856 x 2,142 pixel area of a DX7630 photo).
At its 0.6x wide angle factor, the lens gives me the 35mm equivalent of a 23.4mm lens with the DX7630's widest zoom. Any conversion lens that's wider (0.5x or lower) and you're getting into fish-eye country.
You do get barrel distortion, typical of wide angle lenses, which can be removed with software. And, as the other reviewer points out, the combination of lens + adapter blocks the light output of the on-camera flash.
The lens comes with instructions (basically, "keep it clean"; and "screw it into the adapter and/or threads on the lens, but not too tight"... in 4 languages). There's also a fine, calfskin... oh, wait, it may be plastic... lens pouch.
If you're shooting broad expanses of countryside or regularly need to wedge 20 people into a well-lighted interior shot (or have the means to use an external flash for darksome places) this lens makes a good addition.
With software correction of barrel distortion and perspective, it makes surprisingly good architectural shots. They look for all the world like those tasty, mannered view-camera studies that grace the slick architectural magazines (but without the razor sharpness... this is point-and-shoot, remember).
The marketeers and engineers who were part of this Kodak project should feel proud of themselves. The combination of this adapter with the Schneider Kreuznach lens that Kodak's putting on its cameras makes for a good optical match, and the pricing is more than equable relative to competing adapters.
3 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 made the picture a wide angle picture. It evens bows at the top and bottom like a traditional slr wide angle lens would do.
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 for landscapes and other stuff.
Even came with a lens bag.
