Olympus TCON-300 3X Extension Lens for E-10/E-20N

A 3x Lens Extension Custom-made for the E-20P and E-10 Providing 3x tele facility, this powerful optical system provides the equivalent performance of 420 mm on a 35 mm camera. To support its considerable length it comes complete with a support arm and lens hood. So this lens extension kit may also be used together with the Power Battery Grip (which extends the base of the camera), another specially designed optional support arm is available.

1 Get the correct support arm.
This is a great lens that I am pleased to have! All of my shots have been right on the mark, they have all been hand held even while shooting from a rocking boat. Be advised that if you use a lithium-polymer battery grip, you will need the tcon-sa2 support arm instead of the arm that comes with the lens.

2 Really cool lens!
A friend of mine has this, and I have the Olympus E-10 as well, so he's given me a chance at using this lens - grudgungly - I don't think he wanted to give it up for even an afternoon! And I must say I can't blame him. This is one sweet piece of equipment!

I'm female, so I don't have a lot of upper body strength, although I am fairly young. This lens is so compact that I found that I really had no trouble using it, even without a tripod.

Great images, too. They're mostly sharp and clear. The ones that aren't are my fault for not using a tripod. The E-10 has a low maximum shutter speed of 1/640th of a second - if that were abit higher, I think all my pictures would have come out (I spent the day at the zoo, taking frameable shots of all my favorite little friends: leoperd, camel, bird, and jiraffe, etc.

This is a great lens, and it's so small, even I can use it!

420mm!

3 bd Told Me Two Things I Did'nt Know
Yeah!

I love it that you can actually add a connection lens TO a connection lens. I'm definately going to try that.

My Dad already has the whole E-10 system. He loves it - but he doesn't know about the adding of the 200mm - I can't wait to suprize him with it!

The second thing, I never really thought about it, but this really is a sophisticated lens. I've seen the way my Dad fauns over it. I think he's in love with it! So bd must be right!

I think I'd better start collecting the E-10 system myself. I've been using some 35mm slr's that my Dad gave me ever since I was little - I love photography. But the whole digital photography world seems so cool!

Thanks Dad! Thanks bd - whoever you are.

love,

Karen :)

4 A Very Sophisticated Lens - Compact and FAST!
Effectively, a 420mm fixed lens that's very fast. I believe that this was made specifically for the Camedia E-10. It comes in a nice little foam-filled case with two lens covers, a lens hood, and the support arm. Assembling the lens with the camera is fairly unorthodox in that it doesn't actually afix to the lens. It's held by the support-arm quite firmly against the lens, with a rubber gasket to keep stray light out of the path.

Extenders are usually not very good. Speed is almost always sacrificed, and distortion is almost always increased to the point that you wish you hadn't bothered. BUT, I can't say enough about THIS extender. It's of very high quality. The contrast and overall brilliance of the image produced by this lens is outstanding. And it really doesn't have to be - even at this price - when considering the performance of its competitors.

I've made many hand-held shots, with good success. But, I'd suggest the use of a good tripod anyway.

My favorite part of this whole thing is, with quick adjustments made to the lens, the auto-focus feature of the camera works perfectly with this lens! Plus!, if you happen to own the 1.45 extender, it can be attached to the front of this extender (with a step-up ring) to give you an astoundingly fast and high-quality 609mm lens! that's just as fast as your 420mm!

If you own the E-10, and you have occasion to use a very long lens, there is no reason to fear adding this wonderful lens to your system.

This is a very sophisticated lens for any market.

Olympus TCON-14B 1.45X Tele Extension Lens for E-10