Digital Concepts 37mm Tele & Wide Camcorder Lens Kit

by Sakar

Product Details

• Item Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000A7BIDQ
• Item model number: KIT1337
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

Manufacturer Description

The Sakar Digital Concepts KIT-1337 is a wide and telephoto lens kit for small video cameras. The 37mm wide angle and telephoto lens set includes rings for 27, 28, 30, 30.5, and 34mm. Comes with a 10-year warranty. Designed to fit Sony, Canon, JVC, Panasonic, Minolta, Samsung, RCA, Hitachi, Kodak, Olympus, Nikon, Fuji, Polaroid, Hewlett Packard, Ricoh, AGFA, Sanyo, Apple, Casio, Konica, Phillips, Yashica, Pentax, and other fine digital cameras and camcorders.

Product Description

The Sakar® wide and telephoto lens kit is great for digital cameras and camcorders. It also includes 7 adapter rings and 2 carrying cases.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic price and great picture quality for 15 bucks, August 17, 2010

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Johnny - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Digital Concepts 37mm Tele & Wide Camcorder Lens Kit (Electronics)

After viewing the Flip MinoHD mod on youtube, I went to amazon to get me a adapter ring and a 37mm wide angle lens. After some searching I came across Digital Concepts kit that comes with two lenses (wide angle and Telephoto), 4 different size adapter rings, plus two carry sacks for your lenses. The cherry on top is that the wide angle lens is very crisp and every low (almost nothing) distortion on the edges of view finder. The best 15 bucks I spent in a very long time...

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Product, Bad Description, March 7, 2011

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L-Cat - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Digital Concepts 37mm Tele & Wide Camcorder Lens Kit (Electronics)

I have a panasonic SDR-H80 camcorder with a 70X optical zoom and a 37mm thread. I was a little wary of buying this product due to its inexpensive cost and some poor reviews, however, for $[...] with free shipping, I decided to take the risk. I ordered this product from DigitalGoja with standard shipping late Thursday night and revived it Monday morning.

I did find that the product description is incorrect. Possibly the description is from a pricier product Digital Concepts sells, as the product claims to include 7 adapter rings to fit various thread sizes, however, I (like many others) received a product that included only 3 adapter rings:

30mm, 30.5mm, 43mm

Luckily for me, the lenses are 37mm, which fit my camera without an adapter. However, if your threads are not 30, 30.5, 37,or 43mm, I would suggest not buying this product or finding a different adapter for it.

Upon opening the packaging, I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the lenses. Both have a heavy-duty-like feel to them and thread incredibly easily! Even though I did not need the adapters, I put them on the lenses just to test the quality and ease of threading, which was fantastic. I was also happily surprised to discover that each lens comes with its own thread and lens cap (which was not mentioned in the description) and carrying bag (which was mentioned, but I did not realize that I would get one for each). The lenses also came with a cleaning cloth which was not included in the packaging, but in the bag it was shipped in.

One thing I would like to mention, because it is not included in the description, is that the product includes a 2X telephoto lens and a .5X wide angle. These figures are a little more or less than comparable products, and it was hard information to find unless you squint really closely at the product image.

I found that on my camera, when I was completely zoomed out, the wide angle lens has a tiny amount of vignetting in the corners, however, I had to zoom in less than 1X to remove them.

The telephoto lens, on the other hand, has a LARGE amount of vignetting when zoomed out, so if you require only a small amount of zoom, I would not recommend using this lens, HOWEVER, I had to zoom in less than 3X to remove the effect, and if you desire to zoom in quite a lot, I would definitely use this lens to reduce the amount of zoom required to get the shot you need, thereby reducing the amount of over-sensitivity and blur/lack of focus that you get when zooming in large amounts.
For example, I wanted a shot of a house window that was very far away. Without a lens, I had to zoom in 50X to get the shot, however, at this zoom, the image was very hard to stabilize and focus. Conversely, when I used my telephoto lens I needed only a 25X zoom to get the exact shot, which was much easier to focus and stabilize.

Overall, I am quite happy with the product I received, but for anyone looking to purchase this item, be aware that the description leaves quite a lot to be desired and that the items in question may not work with your camera if you need an adapter other than the ones I previously mentioned.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great product!!!, April 12, 2007

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Richard Carter "PJ" (Wellywood) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digital Concepts 37mm Tele & Wide Camcorder Lens Kit (Electronics)

This is a great product!! The step up rings are great, there a lot of them. It attaches wonderfully to my 26mm miniDV camcorder lens. And, unlike what you see in the picture, they look pretty cool! And it says on them, "Digital High Definition Lens" now I don't have an HD camcorder, but they look fantastic! The only problem, however is this. If you have the wide angle lens on, and your camcorder set to 16:9, I got the inside edges of the lens on the screen, little dark sections in the 4 corners of the screen. However, if I zoom in a tad, I can't see them. And even with zooming in a tad, its still a much, much bigger view than without the wide angle lens on. I won't even take away a star for that. I give this 5 stars!