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Kenko 37mm 0.5X and 2.0X Two Lens Kit

Kenko 37mm 0.5X and 2.0X Two Lens Kit Review

as silly as it may seem, I purchased this Kenko lens set for use with my external iSight web camera. I wanted to fit two or more people into the video, and that just wasn’t possible with the standard iSight camera… not without sitting at least 10 feet from the camera anyway.

So I purchased this kit, as well as the Kaidan accessory kit (tripod so it can be raised to eye-level, and 37mm threaded lens adapter ring/lens shade). Sitting just a couple of feet away, it now captures (nearly) the entire room, and the image seems almost clearer/more defined.

I haven’t tried the telephoto lens yet (actually, I’m not entirely sure what it does), but the wide angle lens was worth the alone.

It also comes with two small lens bags, and multiple step rings. Amazon’s photo almost makes them look white, but they’re actually silver and matches my iSight perfectly.

My only con is – in conjunction with the tripod; the weight of the lens makes the isight point down, but the tripod can easily compensate for that.

Kenko 37mm 0.5X and 2.0X Two Lens Kit Overview

The new two-lens set from Kenko is made up of the new MD-05W, a 0.5x wide-angle lens and MD-20T, a 2.0x telephoto lens. The two lenses have the popular 37 mm mount thread and also contain step rings for 30.5 mm and 30 mm to mount on many Mini DV camcorders from Canon and Sony and other manufacturers. These lenses have silver finished aluminum barrels and high quality glass optics that are coated to guard against reflections and flare.

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Customer Reviews

It’s cheap….that’s about it. – Brad Totman – Arcadia, Kansas United States
I came on Amazon and saw 8 glowing review and thought, wow, this cheap set must be decent. But therein is the fallacy of trusting the opinion of others. I opened these up, excited, and within 10 minutes i am boxing them back up. The wide angle is wide angle. But you will also see a fish eye effect and when you play your video you will see black corners showing the lens. Which is odd as you can barely see them when you are using the camera. But plug it in to your tv or throw it in your media card reader and you’ll see them, make no mistake about that! Sure i could slightly zoom in every time i use it but what a freakin pain that is! As for the tele lens, it’s a turd all around. All the way out you are going to see the lens. All the way zoomed in it is hardly more zoom than the HF200 has without it. Probably indistinguishable to the untrained eye. The lenses are small and much more low profile than my Merkury on my HV20. But I think in order for this to be useful i might need a Macro lens in between (which it does not come with). I am very disappointed and may try the macro with it but I may just decide to get a Raynox and be done with it.

The Price is Right – Lucius – USA
Wide-angle lens is fun to play with, however at the widest angle there is some vignetting, which reduces the usefulness of the lens.

Also, after attaching a UV filter onto the wide-angle lens, I noticed a bright “halo” in the recorded image when viewing bright scenes. Looking down the barrel of the lens assembly, I saw that the adapter ring was showing just a little bit, and it was bright silver with little specks of some reflective material. I painted it black with nail polish and it seemed to remove much of the halo.

I am please with this product.

Solid, Useful Equipment for any Camcorder! – G. George –
I got the Kenko wide angle and 2X telephoto lens set for my Sony camcorder in the mail just two days after ordering from ADORAMA PHOTOGRAPHY/AMAZON.COM and I’m very pleased with the products! The 2X telephoto is distortion free, without darkened corners and absorbs very little available light on the long distance shots (you know, some cheap telephoto lenses leave you in the dark, literally, in the trade-off of distance vs. available light for the shot); the wide angle lens is great also; there is very little distortion on regular wide angle shots with only a small amount of curvature noted at the corners of the picture! (some cheap wide angle lenses give you more of a ‘fisheye’ effect than anything else) I have to say these are quality lenses at inexpensive prices! Thanks Amazon!
*** Product Information and Prices Stored: Mar 09, 2010 18:17:04

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