FISHEYE LENS FOR OLYMPUS EVOLT E-300 E-500 E-550 E-410

by Red Hot Buys

Product Details

• ASIN: B000YLSG3I
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 8, 2007

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cheap lens, poor quality, May 4, 2008

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Larry S. Cruikshank "Laredog" (Las Vegas, NV.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: FISHEYE LENS FOR OLYMPUS EVOLT E-300 E-500 E-550 E-410 (Electronics)

This fisheye lens is cheap and you get what you pay for. It does work with the Olympus EVOLT E-300, but the results are poor. There is color distortion and focusing is made more difficult.
The Macro portion of the lens actually works fairly well, but again without clear focus, closeups are poor quality too.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars You get what you pay for..., April 25, 2008

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J. Le (Saint Paul, MN) - See all my reviews
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I got this lens for about $30, I figured you can't really go wrong with it for that price... I wasn't expecting too much, which is good, because this fisheye lens doesn't do a whole lot. This lens screws onto your existing lens where the filter goes, or even onto your filter. Depending on the size of your lens, it may need an adapter ring to have it fit onto your specific lens. The lens also unscrews off to review a small macro lens as well, however, i have yet to take any pictures with the macro lens.

The lens looks and feels to be of solid quality, and comes with a nice pouch (it also came with the adapter ring as well for the Olympus E510 (58mm). I used it on the kit lens of my camera 14-42mm; the center of the image is sharp (a circular type lens; image is projected as a circle inside of the frame, but i assume if you zoom in, it can be a full frame), but the barrel distortion is very low, giving the image only a slight fisheye effect. I was definitely hoping for more barrel distortion than what this lens gives; i don't think it provides a full 180 degree hemisphere view.

In conclusion, the lens seems to be built well, and the came with a adapter ring, and macro lens, but does not provide very good barrel distortion, reducing the field of view, as well as dampening the fisheye effect. All in all, if I had to do it all over again, I'd probably go with a different fisheye lens.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The eye of the fish, July 6, 2008

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Edna C. Burns "E. C. Burns" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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The service was excellent. Delivery was fast. The fish eye len is good, but I cannot seem to get that oval fish eye look. It goes from wide to round. However, I am still happy with the product for the price.