ballsafire Loc: Lafayette, Louisiana

I have just discovered a place in Miami, Florida where they're selling this lens in various powers at--- "2.2X Tele Converter Lens FOR Canon EOS Rebel 500D 350D T3I T4I T5I T3 XS XSI". If this lense is as good as my Micro-Wide angle lens by Zeikos, I think I will buy it. Take a look and let me know your opinion! P.S.-- I know that the Albinar 2X Telephoto Lens (made in China) was not good for me. This one is made in Japan and is right for my T1i/500D Canon crop camera. "The Vivitar 2.2x Telephoto Lens is designed to bring objects you are photographing twice as close."

blackest Loc: Ireland

Honestly I think you will be disappointed, there are very few that are of any reasonable quality Olympus made a couple for a sorta slr they made which had a fixed zoom lens. I think 1.5x 1.7x versions. I have a few of these type of lenses and only my olympus one gets any use. The adpter rings and filters they came with were more useful than the lenses.

ballsafire Loc: Lafayette, Louisiana

Yes, thanks for your opinion ---- I just might just relax and forget about it.

blackest Loc: Ireland

This link might be useful

http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/FZ-30/Converters/Other-Lenses/Oly.html

ballsafire Loc: Lafayette, Louisiana

I looked at the listings and find no Canon (TC) telle converters (all Olympus); no prices, etc. I found nothing helpful. Thanks for the effort as worthless as it was to me and my Canon T1i/500D EOS camera. I just think it was a mistake in posting the wrong information, wasn't it?

blackest Loc: Ireland

The front teleconverters attach by means of the filter ring of the lens and can attach to any although one having a fixed front element and internally focusing is best. the olympus a200 and b300 are the best that olympus do and have better iq than the vivitar you were looking at.

They are interesting in that they don't cost you light (or very little) there are others which might be worth a look
http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/FZ-30/index.html this page links to most of his other pages which include tests of different extenders. His research was primarily concerned with the panasonic fz 30 which has a pretty small sensor. The larger the sensor the more of the lens gets used. So with the teleconverters there is a minimum focal length that these lenses work with.

http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/FZ-30/Converters/Tele-Test/Scene-1/Tele-Test-Infinity.html

http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/FZ-30/Converters/Tele-Test/Scene-2/Tele-Test-Long.html

It is worth noting that the camera's he was working with don't have interchangeable lenses so this was the best he could do. Your canon does have other options including m42 lenses via an adapter they would be manual focus but probably a better cheap alternative to this kind of lens.

If you are still curious about this kind of lens they can be found on ebay but to be fair they tend to be made for video camera's rather than still camera's. The info i have given you is about front extenders which is what you were asking about.

ballsafire Loc: Lafayette, Louisiana

Briefly-- The Canon TL-55 mounted on FZ-30L (whatever this is, a lens?) didn't do very well in comparison with other camera brands. With all this work done to reach a SIMPLE conclusion like this it is a wonder how our brain handles all this crap! This must be what is called "mental gymnastics!!" I don't have time for this --- thanks anyway.

ballsafire Loc: Lafayette, Louisiana

I would like to correct myself -- I take back the negative things I wrote about Albinar 2X Telephoto Lens (made in China)--- That lens turned out to be a really GOOD lens added to my other lenses EXCEPT my 75-300mm lens. Just experiment using it on different lenses. Sorry!