2011-10-01T21:00:00
Rated 3 out of 5
workes great on a Nikon 55-200 mm
Ok, so you want a wide angle lens to go along with your 18-55mm kit lens, but you can't justify a $ price tag just to shoot an occasional wide angle photo. This inexpensive lens is not the perfect solution, although it's better than emptying your wallet for a lens your probably. won't use that often and the pictures are not all that bad. If your using the Nikon 18-55 kit lens, it just screws on to the 52mm filter threads. Plus there's a handy pinch release similar to a lens pinch cap, allowing you to quickly return to normal. Mounted on the 18-55, serious vignetting occurs at anything below 12mm, so by setting the zoom at 24mm, the effective angle of view becomes 12mm (6mm better than 18mm). so the lens acts like a 12-55mm zoom. It works great on the Nikon 55-200mm lens also, effectively turning it into a 27.5-200mm lens, which in many situations allows you to only have to mount one lens by using the quick release .5x conversion lens. Using this conversion just might keep a lot of dust off your mirror
Gene W.
