On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:55:02AM -0600, Karen Nakamura wrote: > You *can* buy wide angle (0.8x; 0.7x) converters that you stick on > the front of your camera.
Yes, I know that, but they're rather lens-specific, and with a DSLR a body-specific one would make more sense to me. > Reasons why they aren't built into the body: I wasn't thinking of building one into the body, but a removable one that could be inserted between the body and lens, like TCs. > * Where are you going to put it? There's no space in between the > lens, lens mount, mirror, and body to fit a thing like that. I fail to see any technical reason one couldn't work between the body and the lens. It would lengthen the lens, true, but so do TCs. If there is a technical reason I've missed, I'd appreciate some explanation (or pointer to such). > * Most pros would reject any extraneous glass in the camera. They'd > rather just move down from their 50mm to 35mm glass and compensate > that way. Many pros are using teleconverters a lot, and in many situations you just can't move back without hitting a wall or worse. > * Most consumers would not be happy with the $50-100 additional cost > this would represent. I'm planning to buy a 10D soon and I'd be happy to spend an extra $200-300 on such an item (after all, I'm considering getting either 16-35/2.8L or 17-40/4L, which cost a lot more). -- Tapani Tarvainen * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
