IMO its a lack of respect and professionality from Canon... they spit over their brand with these silly and annoying mistakes

as a read in other threads, so difficult was to build it with barn doors a la Sony...?

Sony probably patented that.
But is it that big of a deal? The only time I need lens caps on are when I'm not using it, when I'm not using it, it's in a safe place like my gear bag anyway, so why would it fall off?

I came across the Raynox HDP-6000EX High Definition Wideangle conversion Lens 0.79X in a brochure the other day, and also found this link

http://www.raynox.co.jp/english/vide....htm#hdp6000ex

Does anyone know if this lens is full zoom-through on the XH-A1? The brochure mentions the A1 as a compatible model, but this website says 1x - 12x zoom range. Some feedback from someone who has tried it out on the A1 would be most welcome. The price I was quoted was a bit under US$450 which I thought was reasonable.

Richard

FWIW: http://www.don-sara-parsons.com/raynox/cvtu.html
shows the Raynox as full xoom through under the listing for the XL H1, at $650 USD. (That is consistent with having 4 elements in 3 groups. The partial zoom through adapter typically have 1 group and lower price points.) BTW: that was about the only USA hit by Google on the adapter model number, I guess it is too new.

Yeah, I wish I had gone with that. I have the Canon, and the 0.8 is really not doing it for me. It is such an incremental change for a lot of money and a huge amount of weight. The look is great, though.

I am finding it difficult to find a wide-angle option for my A1. I bought a zunow wfx-07 but it was terrible with soft edges and chromatic abberation. I need wider than the canon 0.8x also but need full zoom through ability, the century 0.7x zoom through is more than i want to pay. Has anybody had any experience with these from cavision http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/cont...goryNavigation

A full zoom-through 0.6x would be perfect.

Anyone had any experience with this converter?

im leasing my A1 plus a ton of other camera gear.. going to go pick it up this week.

i spoke to my equipment guy about wide angle attachments briefly and he showed me a century optics .65 adapter for about $230 canadian. he said it was HD certified as well.

it comes with a bunch of adapter rings to fit it onto a variety of different cameras as well.. ill post when i have an actual model # but it sounds pretty good to me.

I'd love to see some footage of the camera with a WA attachment if anyone is up for it.

me too. zoom through is most important to me.
i've never had a third party..especially century, provide true
zoom through.

i was just going to buy the canon.

oddly enough, my century wa bayonet for the xl1-s does not fit on the
A1. not that i would pervert the A1 with that POS paperweight anyway..I was just curious.

zoom through isnt that important to me. its nice to have but its not that hard to live without either ;)

Hi Eric. I had a Century 0.7X converter that was zoom through on my XL2. When I bought an A1, I filed away a small section of the bayonet mount surface, and it fitted fine on the A1 (thanks to a tip in a previous forum post). The bad news is that the image with converter fitted was blurry round the edges when zoomed out to full WA. Pretty useless really, so I ended up selling it with my XL2.

I think Century have brought out (or are in the process of bringing out) a HD version of this converter, I expect it will be much sharper.

Richard

this new one may be the one im talking about.

Richard, it looks exactly the same on my Xl1-s too.
Blurry around the edges at full WA but i was never able to zoom through without some serious blur.


I really only wanted to see if it would fit to get an idea of the weight
and basic view of what the Canon WDH-72 0.75X would provide.

Hi Eric. My converter was fine on the XL2, a bit of barrel distortion and slightly softer than the 20X lens, but I never noticed any blurring (that wasn't caused by me). Only when I put it on the A1 did it show the blur problem. I wonder if they changed the models between your XL1S model and my XL2 model?

Richard