Digital 0.45X Professional Wide Angle Lens 58 MM with Macro High Definition

by Digital Concepts

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0025Z7MAE
• Item model number: 1458W
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
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  • #20 in Camera & Photo > Lenses > Camera Lenses
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 18, 2009

Product Description

Digital Concepts Professional 0.45x Super Wide-Angle and MACRO Combo Lens.

No adapter needed -the 0.45x Combo Lens has 58mm rear threads and screws directly onto your Canon EF 18-55mm or Olympus Zuiko 14-42mm "Kit" lenses or ANY lens with a 58mm filter mount.

The 0.45x Wide-Angle dramatically increases your wide-angle range. Fit the entire family or the whole team into the picture. Multi-Coated Optics and Steel Barrel construction will provide years of use and enjoyment.
Lens is High-Speed and Infra-Red compatible. Can be used Night or Day.
Front filter size is 62mm for attaching other accessories.

PLEASE NOTE: Your lens front filter size MUST be 58mm (although "stepping rings" can be used to mount to other filter sizes).

Includes MACRO Lens for Close-Up Focus
Macro Mode is accomplished by unscrewing the front lens assembly and using only the section labeled MACRO with your existing lens.

Customer Reviews

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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gives excellent results with a simple Photoshop adjustment, June 5, 2010

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shep (Princeton, NJ, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Digital 0.45X Professional Wide Angle Lens 58 MM with Macro High Definition (Electronics)

Two tricks make this adapter really useful and versatile: a step-down converter ring, and one simple Photoshop adjustment.

It converts my 28mm equivalent lens to what I roughly estimate is a 21mm lens--a big increase in angle of view.

I got one of these adapters for my Olympus micro 4/3 camera, to try out as an alternative to a $600 true wideangle.

The big problem is substantial barrel distortion. Also, there is chromatic aberration in the corners and some vignetting (darkening in those corners). Now, here's the trick: Photoshop Elements (and, no doubt, other photo management programs) can eliminate the barrel distortion in: Filter/Correct Camera Distortion/Remove Distortion (try +20 to +30%). This has the huge additional benefit of pulling the corners out of the picture without reducing the wide angle of view--the very corners where both the chromatic aberration and vignetting occur! Crop to make the picture rectangular, and you have reduced all 3 problems significantly with this one adjustment.

Now, you still are not getting top quality. But for the ridiculously low price of this lens you are getting 50% or more of the quality at a twentieth of the price of a "real" ultrawide.

FItting the adapter to your lens: I use a Digital Concepts adapter on my micro 4/3 14-42mm lens (28 mm equivalent at wide angle). I have to say that the lens' focus mechanism struggled to work--the motors on this tiny lens must be too weak to move the added weight of this adapter--and I therefore found it best to use manual focus. Other cameras may not have this issue. I actually used Digital Concepts' "0.45X Professional 43mm Wide Angle HD Lens with Macro" which has a 43mm screwthread, closer to my specific need, and I had to also buy a 43 to 40.5mm stepdown ring. The adapter on this page, for the "Olympus Evolt", has a 58mm screwthread, which fits the 4/3 (not micro 4/3) lens. The same Digital Concepts lens adapter is sold on Amazon fitted with a variety of other screwthread sizes.)

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Macro is good not so much the Wide-Angle, September 21, 2010

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S. Tripathy "The Dabbler" (EVANSTON, IL, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digital 0.45X Professional Wide Angle Lens 58 MM with Macro High Definition (Electronics)

I bought this adapter primarily for use as a wide-angle lens once attached to my stock EOS 18-55mm lens that came with my Canon EOS Rebel XSi. On receiving it I found it doubles as a macro adapter (you just need to unscrew the wide-angle adapter). For the price it is a good deal, it costs below $30 and any decent fish-eye or wide-angle lens system will cost a good deal above $100. However there are performance issues which I will highlight here. Though I must mention, I found nothing amiss with the macro adapter - it had a crisp but narrow depth of focus, which I think is desirable in macro photography in which you require only your subject to be clearly focused. However the wide-angle adapter was a different story. I usually get crisp images with the stock EOS 18-55mm lens that came with my camera, the borders of distant objects are sharp and clear. However after attaching the wide-angle adapter the borders of distant objects tended to be hazy (thicker borders that looked like a smear of unnaturally bright colors [where I expected to see crisp dark outlines], this maybe a kind of chromatic aberration). Furthermore in the full zoomed out 0.42x view the picture's corners are clipped off and you get a final picture with a roundish view area [the corners are black: imagine a rectangle, now draw an ellipse within it - such that it touches all the sides, next constrain your picture within the ellipse and blacken all the parts of the rectangle that lie outside the ellipse]. So my final word on this adapter is buy it if you are going to use it for an occasional trip to some national park and are not much concerned about capturing the finer details of distant structures. It fairs pretty well in capturing details of structures which are closer than 50 metres, it is only when the distance gets well beyond a 100 metres are the outline distortion effects most perceivable. However these effects can only be discerned on zooming into the image (for panoramic views), but are somewhat more evident for portraits with a distant background [in which the focus lies on the person close at hand].

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not So fast, July 5, 2010

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Francisco Colon (West Palm Beach, Florida United States) - See all my reviews

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I bought this item based on the reviews...and because the wide lens that I wanted was not available. It's a nice cheap sub but you can't use the auto focus on your lens and if you have to focus quickly it's not a good sub.

So. It you are going to take the time to focus on every shoot then it's a good sub...but if you are changing positions and going from shot to shot then best to go with an original lens.