Canon WC-DC58A Wide Converter Lens for the S5 IS, S3 IS & S2 IS Digital Camera
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Canon WC-DC58A Wide Converter Lens for the S5 IS, S3 IS & S2 IS Digital Camera
Customer Review: Canon Accessory
Summary: 5 Stars
Great value & excellent Canon Lens
Very pleased Great delivery & price
Allan Watt
Customer Review: WC-DC58A
Summary: 5 Stars
Exactly what I wanted, and Brand New in the Box! Perfect! Good Price vs. brick and mortar store purchase!Customer Review: Amazing for everything except high magnification
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a great purchase for me. For family shots indoors, or even outside landscape scenes, it works very well, capturing a lot more panorama than you could otherwise. But one word of caution. At maximum magnification with my Canon S5 IS, I got a little blur, and not just around the edges. Perhaps it is my camera, but everything else is wonderful and in focus...unless I go to maximum length on the lens. I also got a rounded shadow when I used the built in flash with the Wide Converter, because the Wide Converter sticks out so far. However, if you use a larger flash off the hot shoe (i.e., I use a Canon 580 EX II from my DSLR), you can shoot all day with no shadow at all. Do not forget one more very important thing. To attach the Wide Converter to your camera (Powershot S2, S3 and S5), you must have the Canon LAH-DC20 Conversion Lens Adapter (which also comes with a junky little sun hood). I got my lens adapter (LAH-DC20) at Amazon as opposed to Canon, and for a whole lot less...almost half. The adapter allows you to attach filters like Sky 1A, polorizer, star and others, but you can't attach a filter and then attach the Wide Converter. It only goes on the lens adapter (LAH-DC20). If you get the LAH-DC20, and attach a 58mm filter, you can also order a Canon 58mm Snap-on-lens Cap (about $9 at Amazon). It fits perfectly and firmly on any lens filters you attach and the camera lens is then protected, as is your filter(s). What you can't do is put any filters on and then add the Wide Converter. And you should know the Wide Converter has no threads on the outside/end to add a filter there either (and FYI...the Wide Converter comes with a very large cap of it's own and a plug for the other end when not in use, along with a nice little cloth pouch). The lens cap that comes with the camera is made to slip off when the camera is turned on, to avoid compromising the gears in the lenses as they move out of the camera body...a Canon safety feature. But the thing comes off if you look at it cross-eyed, so it leaves a lot to be desired. I actually bought two of the LAH-DC20 Lens Adapters and leave one attached to the wide converter and the other to a polorizer filter with the positive 58mm cap attached. That way the lens is always protected and I can interchange them very quickly. I'm sorry this is a little long, but you should know the whole story. And for the record, I love my Wide Converter and S5 setup. Good luck to you.Customer Review: WC-DC58A for S5IS
Summary: 4 Stars
As the Canon Powershot S5IS camera has 36mm at the extreme wide angle, it helps to attach the WC-DC58A Wide Angle Converter Lense for covering more horizontal and vertical view of any given scene, as it gives 27mm at the extreme wide angle. I have found it satifactorily suitable when there is no sufficient space for taking a step back ( without the WC, as one of the reviewer has suggested ). The pictures are sharp and detailed. The horizontal and vertical distortion are normal for any Wide Angle Lense, only that people use different softwares to correct this under post processing.I like unprocessed images. My experience with this Lense is that the enlargement capacity of the created images is limited. Pictures look grainy after a certain degree of enlagement. Any how, if the pictures are not to be blown up to poster size, this is a good lense for the purpose it is meant for. Many people have complained about the semi-circular shadow when using the built-in flash. The manual, which comes with the camera, already suggests this situation and recommends to use an external flash. Hence, one has to go with the recommendation ( only sensible and fair ).
With this attachment there seems to be an effect on the camera's Automatic focus and white balance operations, some times, particularly during night time even with the external flash. As for the construction quality, I am not sure about how hard or how fragile is the plastic, as I have not dropped it yet. Usage of the lense is very easy. I have used this lense at a wedding party of one of my close relatives and found that the results are very good. I can recommend this lense for the Pro series -S cameras (S2,S3&S5).
Customer Review: Works well - See the photos
Summary: 4 Stars
This lens does exactly what it should. The overall quality is extremely good. Take a look at my photos:
- First photo is without the lens
- Second photo is with the lens and flash
- Third photo is with the lens and without flash
There are a few things to note about the photos:
- There is a substantial amount of barrel distortion. This is normal. Try not to have straight lines near the borders of the photo to make it less obvious.
- Fringing is exaggerated. You notice fringing (purple or blue tints) along high contrast edges of objects that are near the borders. You can see this on regular shots but is more exaggerated with the wide angle lens.
- The lens makes a shadow when using the built-in flash. You can see the shadow in the photo with the flash. In a darker environment, it is very obvious. The external flash is the only way to fix this.
A couple details:
- You can get an extender that is a nice brushed aluminum here:
http://www.lensmateonline.com/S2.html
- The camera has a setting (Converter) to indicate that you have the lens attached. It's not obvious what it does but it is indicated by a change in the image stabilization icon so I assume that it affects the way that image stabilization works.
Overall, I recommend this lens.