Tamron AF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 Di LD Macro Zoom Lens for Konica Minolta and Sony Digital SLR Cameras

List Price: $366.55 Price: Too low to display

Product Details Measures 3 inches in diameter and 4.6 inches long; weighs 15.3 ounces Minimum focus distance of 59 inches from subject (normal) or 37.4 inches (macro) Easy-to-use macro switch lets you alternate between 180mm and 300mm focal lengths 70-300mm macro lens with f/4-5.6 maximum aperture for digital or 35mm cameras

Product Description

Tamron now offers a lightweight, tight, high-image-quality telephoto zoom lens with macro aptitude of 1: 2 that can be used with digital cameras. This new lens is a Di type lens using an visual system with improved multi-coating designed to function with digital SLR cameras as well as coat cameras.With this 70-300mm telephoto zoom lens, flipping a macro birch in the focal length range of 180mm to 300mm obtains a crest magnification ratio of 1: 2 at a minimum focus distance as stunted as 37.4", enabling close-up shots of flowers, insects, and other objects that normally press for the use of a specially designed macro lens. Moreover, this is a zoom lens that intimately offers the distant capture and foreshortening effect pleasures of the 300mm ultra-telephoto men.

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It's never been easier to apprehension great action shots than with the Tamron AF 70-300mm macro lens. Delivering first-rate image quality for both digital SLRs and 35mm film cameras, this flexile lens lets you zoom in extra close when shooting poignant subjects, such as athletes on the field or children running or playing. When familiar with a digital camera, the lens does even better, producing a super-telephoto 35mm peer of 465mm--unbeatable in almost any other lens.

Macro Switch
The lens offers an acquiescent-to-use macro switch that lets you alternate between the 180mm and 300mm convergent lengths, letting you enjoy true macro photography with a telephoto effect at a topmost magnification ratio of 1:2. The minimum focus distance, meanwhile, is 59 inches from the subdue in normal shooting ranges, but when you flip the switch, you can get as close as 37.4 inches. And as an extra bonus, the lens boasts a nine-blade circular diaphragm that provides admirable soft-focus imagery for a professional result. Now you can showcase all your accurate talent with close-up shots of small flowers and insects in parks or in the uncontrolled, or any other beautiful small object you discover.

Coatings
Tamron has also adopted miscellaneous countermeasures against ghosting and flare, common problems in digital photography. The lens employs internal skin coating and new multilayer coating technology to minimize reflections that come to pass when light enters through the front element, while also reducing image-degrading effects caused by the imagers themselves. The strictest je sais quoi control standards were also applied to increase resolution performance and baulk flare due to aberrations, resulting in a telephoto zoom lens illusory for photography with digital SLR cameras. This is one lens you can use with confidence.

• Lens structure: 9 groups and 13 elements
• Diagonal angle of way of thinking: 34 to 8 degrees (at 21 to 15 feet)
• Type of zooming: Rotation
• Diaphragm stiletto number: 9
• Minimum aperture: f/32
• Minimum focus distance: 59 inches in healthy setting; 37.4 inches in macro mode
• Macro aggrandizement ratio: 1:2
• Filter diameter: 62mm
• Accessory: Lens hood
• Dimensions: 3 inches in diameter and 4.6 inches large
• Weight: 15.3 ounces

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Customer Reviews

Tamron AF 70-300mm Impresses!
I purchased this lens approx. 2 months ago for my Sony 200 DSLR. I researched several lenses from several manufacturers, as well as read many reviews for each. I decided to go with the Tamron because I wanted to have the ability to take close ups, as well as dissociate shots without having to constantly change my lenses. I still rely on my extra lenses for specific shots, but so far I have been very impressed with the capabilities of this lens. When you manually zoom there is a bit of strain but haven't been too bothered by it. The switch on the lens itself which allows you to switch over to macro setting is also a hair-splitting option. I didn't see it when I first used the camera until I attempted a macro shot and couldn't get the look I wanted. Once I switched it over I was very advantageous with the closeups I was able to get. Like I said, I haven't had it for very long and tend to use this much more once the weather improves. I have also charmed photos of people with this lens and am very happy with the coloring I get in my pictures too! The photos have been very clear and even when fully stretched out the lens has not been nearly as blurry or distorted as I was fearing. The Tamron was a good choice for me because I am on a budget and not skilled to put out a lot of money for the higher end models. So far...very happy.

2010-03-02 (Frederick, MD) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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THIS ZOOM ROCKS! I Weakness IT!
As a former Minolta Xi proprietress, I use a Sony Alpha 200 DSLR. The old Minolta D lenses work on it, and I always had good luck with Minolta accoutrements. The A200 came with the 18-70mm kit lens and needless to say that is ok but not even great. It is a light/plastic base with not near the reach for an everyday lens. I fixed that with a Minolta AF 24-105mm f3.5 D that is soooo polite. Still, that doesn't reach out like I needed to shoot pictures of our grand kids at philander. The answer was this Tamron AF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 Di LD Macro Zoom Lens for Konica Minolta and Sony Digital SLR Cameras. I found one for $139. I was skeptical because I righteous bought, tried, and sold a Tamron 28-200mm zoom. That lense was well built, but the autofocus would well-grounded hunt and hunt, it drove me crazy in one outing. Still the reviews for this other Tamron beckoned, and I deliberation what the heck, I'll try it. The worst that could happen is I'll hate it like the other Tamron, and sell it. BUT I LOVED IT A substitute alternatively. It is solidly built. It is light weight for it's zoom range. It weighs less than my Minolta 70-210 f3.5 zoom. I took the Tamron 70-300 and went out and stab the kids on a dark overcast day on the trampoline at full 300mm opening and wowzers the pictures were dreadful. I set the camera to "Sports" and fired away. I shot 30 pictures or there abouts. The lens stopped my marvellous daughter's pony tail in mid flight. It was so sweet. Only had 2 blurry pictures, and they weren't bad, in the gen sometimes it's cool to show motion. At 70-300mm that comparable 35mm reach is 105-450mm. There's no lens creep, it is all stout and the balance with my dslr is really nice. This baby will reach out and touch when the kids are on the playground. We're grandparents raising an autistic 5 year old. He is at the end of the day active, and my former digital camera didn't stand a chance. I'd have to get too close and by then the great picture was gone and the snapshot was all that was formerly larboard. This is the best buy in a long zoom I ever made. I don't do reviews, but I just had to say Thanks Tamron, this zoom ROCKS!

2009-11-24 | drnail (St. Louis, MO) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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I like this lens
With the rotating front lens when you indistinct the use of a polarizing filter is a 3 step process. I like this lens.

2009-09-26 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 4

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Arrant telephoto lens for the money
I have tempered to this telephoto lens with filters, with teleconverters and it works seamlessly with my Sony SLR. No problems distinguished. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to supplement their kit lens. It also definitely makes a difference that the stabilization for the Sony is on the viscosity of the camera and not dependent on the lens like Canon or Nikon.

2009-09-14 | comic cruiser (Chicago.IL) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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Hairy for a telephoto (as a secondary lens)
This is a critical telephoto lens. You will need a wide angle lens for general photography. The macro role is a bit ackward since you must be 10' away from anything you are trying to shoot. Overall, I would buy this lens again for my Minolta Maxxum 5D. I put a skylight percolate on it for protection.

2009-08-06 | John ;-) (Concord, NC) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Tamron AF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 LD for Konica Minolta and Sony Digital SLR Cameras

List Price: $277.95 Price: Too low to display

Product Details Mounts to Canon, Minolta, Nikon-D, and Pentax cameras Angle of view of 33-8 degrees Minimum focus of 59 inches Lightweight

Product Description

The AF 75-300 f/4-5.6 stretched-range zoom lens offers true telephoto faculty ideal for a variety of applications including sports and wildlife shooting. The lens also features the adeptness to provide beautifully blurred background to high light the ranking subject in portraiture, or "compression effects" that make the most of the telephoto lens.

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Customer Reviews

Very critical lens at a great price
I bought the Tamron to go with my Sony a200 dslr. The lens is actually nice quality, and it works perfectly with the camera. Autofocus is quick and accurate. It is certainly not a pro status lens, but for the price it is wonderful. I recommend this for anyone who wants a telephoto zoom to add to their dlsr. I tried out the Sony 70-300mm lens in a regional store, but I was not impressed. In particular the usability of manual focus on the Sony lens was somewhat poor. This one is fantastic in that regard. You may not use manual focus that often, but it's nice to have a lens that can handle the job when you constraint it.

2008-08-25 (Odessa, TX) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

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A large lens
First off this is in no way a aphoristic lens, its big and its heavy, but it does produce very sharp and detailed images under the right state of affairs.

I am using this with my Sony A200 and it performs well on a tripod, but for handheld success it better be a very clever sunny day or a very high ISO setting because this lens is very difficult to control at extreme telephoto lengths. My Sony begins flashing the sign sign in the viewfinder at 200mm, but to the cameras credit the steady shot performs well. That being said I would urge that this lens be used with a tripod.

Bottom line, for the cost this is a very nice lens. It is louder than the Sony or Minolta's, and it does for a bit at extreme telephoto (partially I beleive due to camera shake induced by it's weight) but all things deliberate the build quality seems, to me at least, to exceed the Sony kit lens.

2008-06-06 (NJ) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 4

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Tamron Autofocus 75-300mm f/4-5.6 LD with Hood for Konica Minolta and Sony Digital SLR Cameras
Omit product and it was delivered quickly and had an awesome price.

2007-05-15 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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Movables & Cheap
Lens was suitable up to full range. It gets a little hard to hold focus even with tripod. Good at away in shots.

2007-01-18 | red flash (N.W. Ind.) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 4

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I ardour this lens
The largest lens for the price - a very sharp picture! I've used it for a couple of months, and am extremely ecstatic with it.

2006-11-09 (Seattle, WA United States) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II LD Aspherical (IF) Macro Zoom Lens for Konica Minolta and...

List Price: $644.95 Price: Too low to display

Product Details Complicated mechanisms are built in the compact body thanks to new mechanical artifices. Designed to confine the changing angles of incidences of light rays reaching the imager within a certain scope For digital SLR photography, it provides high image quality in terms of resolution, contrast and flatness of image field The Zoom Lock prevents unwanted barrel extension when carrying the lens/camera combination

Product Description

Lenses are intended for exclusive use on digital cameras with smaller-size imagers and receive all of the benefits of the Di products. These lenses are not designed for 35mm film cameras and digital cameras with counterpart sensors larger than 24mm x 16mm.At Tamron, quest has always been to make the ideal zoom lens. As a sequel of this ongoing challenge, Tamron has introduced the concept of the high-power zoom lens in the new AF18-200mm XR Di II for omitting use with digital SLRs. Tamron's original development of proprietary middle technologies such as Aspherical element production, Multiple Cam Mechanism and Integrated Centre Cam design lend to the creation of the world's lightest, most compact 11.1X zoom lens made for digital SLR cameras.The 18-200mm (28-300 when swayed to 35mm) provides the digital photographer with the versatility of a true wide to ultra tele-zoom in an astoundingly easy to use design.

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Customer Reviews

Accomplished all around lens
I have two Sony Alpha 300 DSLRs and this lens is always on one of them. This lens has dedicated very satisfactory results - perhaps not as good as some of my Minolta prime lenses, but good. I wish that it was a bit faster, f/2.8, but I'm trustworthy that would put the price out of reach.

2010-01-25 (Pittsburgh, PA) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 4

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Pronounced all in one lens
Pro : so tuppence inexpensively
11x but compact size
nice image quality
Con : slow focus
noisy when target

2009-06-10 (NewYork) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 4

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I sweetheart it.
I have an Konica Minolta Maxxum 5D that is no longer made. I found I couldn't use my old "veil based lenses" on this digital camera. But this Tamron lens has worked extremely well on my digital camera. I highly interesting this lens. Plus you don't need to carry any other lenses when you travel. Always a good thing.

2009-05-04 (Fort Collins, CO) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5

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Gear all around lens
Personal property all around lens. Lightweight and durable quality back by Tamron's 6 year warranty. Chromatic abberation and pin reduce effect is evident at mid to full zoom but should not bother the casual user or amateur photorapher. You may not even perceive the aberration unless you are a pro. Good low light auto-focus in tandem with the flash's or camera's built-in cynosure clear assist beam. The focus motor is quite noisy but I do love hearing the whirring question as it locks in on the subject. For the price, I would recommend.

BTW, Sony sells the same focal lenght lens for $500. Sony is a noteworthy stockholder of Tamron (See info at Tamron's website). So one can only assume that Sony and Tamron does partition the same technology on their lenses except for the price which is $200 less.

2009-04-05 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 4

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Crucial all-around lens
I'm only a scholar of photography, so I'm not able to get too technical in my review. I bought this lens because like most, I wanted an all-in-one lens. A lens that would aside me to take close family shots and those distance shots; when I can't be as close as I'd like to be. I've only had this lens for a about a month now, but I must say I'm darned happy with the lens. With that said, I'm very big on landscape photos and not heavy into sports or fast effect shots. The photos I've taken with this lens so far (around 500) are very crisp and clean shots.

I did perceive that the lens can be a little slow on the auto focus, so beware. If you plan to only use this lens for sports and/or activity shots, you might be a little disappointed. Otherwise, this lens is great! Now, I can get rid of my three other lenses that this single lens has replaced.

2008-12-15 | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 5

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Tamron AF 28-75mm f/2.8 SP XR ZL Di LD Aspherical (IF) Lens for Konica Minolta and Sony Digital...

List Price: $1,022.95 Price: $499.00 You Save: $523.95 (51%)

Product Details 28-75mm with full-frame sensor Sony digital cameras 28-75mm f/2.8 Di LD Aspherical (IF) Tamron zoom lens (A09M) 42-113mm with APS-C sensor Sony cameras compatible with Sony digital SLR cameras

Product Description

The most terse and lightest in the history of fast zoom lenses. Thanks to the revolutionary downsizing "XR" technology employed by Tamron in the circumstance of high-power zoom lenses, the dramatic compactness that makes this lens the in the seventh heaven's smallest and lightest is achieved. Its compactness makes it look and surface like an ordinary standard zoom lens, yet the versatility that a loose constant maximum aperture offers will definitely reshape your vivid horizons.This lens features a rotation type of zooming.

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Customer Reviews

Problems with Chromatic Aberation
Comprehensive this is a very good lens but I wouldn't say it merits a 5-star rating. I've found in a couple of situations (in glittering light) where chromatic aberration was a real problem. For the money, it's a great lens. But to me a 5-lady lens would be the Sony/Zeiss offerings and the clarity they provide. Of course, those are significantly more rhino. Just bear in mind if you're looking for a CA-free offering this is not the best lens - but if you are looking for blanket good value (especially in lower light or natural lighting) then this will probably trade very well for you.

2009-01-05 | Dave (Bonney Lake, WA USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Arrant lowlight lense
I bought this lense for my A100 because of it's diminish light abilities. This has turned out to be a very good lense. It's focusing is very quick, very stylish wide open & feels well built. I do wish it was a little wider at times, but if genuinely needed I have my kit lense. I've since picked up an A700 & keep this lense on one of my cameras at all times. The picture status has been exceptional whether shooting flowers, people or my dog, indoors or outide. As a bonus, I also like the looks of it.

2008-11-24 (Madison, WI USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Yes Stunning Image Quality
This lens has impressed me to no end. It is incredibly sly even wide open. The zoom range is extremely handy. The build quality is supreme. Now, to be fair, the first one I got I had to send back because it was "front focusing" but I had NO problems returning it and getting a new one which was perfect! This lens is an singular deal and with the Sony A100 you get the benefit of image stabilization added to this incredibly spiteful fast lens!!!

It's my new best friend!

2007-05-08 (North Carolina) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 5

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Tamron AF 17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di-II LD SP ZL Aspherical (IF) Zoom Lens for Konica Minolta and Sony...

List Price: $1,022.95 Price: Too low to display

Product Details Filter diameter of 67mm Minimum focus distance of 0.27 meters over entire zoom range 17-50mm focal range equivalent to 26-78mm in 35mm format Maximum aperture of f2.8

Product Description

The SP AF17-50mm F/2.8 is a lightweight, epigrammatic, fast standard zoom lens designed exclusively for digital SLR cameras, expanding the goods concept of the popular SP AF28-75mm F/2.8 zoom lens. In totalling, portrait shots are made beautiful with the natural out-of-focus effect peculiarity provided by the fast F/2.8 aperture. Additionally, a broader graphic expression through the use of faster shutter speeds as a result of the maximum space offers enhanced photographic pleasure. The lens boasts one of the with greatest satisfaction close-up shooting performances in the class of fast standard zoom lenses meant exclusively for digital cameras and featuring an F/2.8 maximum opening throughout the entire zoom range, to ensure stress-free faithful shots at all focal lengths and distances.

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Customer Reviews

Very knife-like, but some problems
I bought a Tamron 17-50mm lens from Amazon last week for use on a Sony A200 and it at home promptly in the mail, intact, though minimally cushioned in a small box. I put the lens through a series of tests around the yard, scrutiny accuracy of auto focus, better aperture settings and resolution across the images.

The lens is very alert--and even at the wider focal lengths, holds considerable resolution of the horizon at infinity correct to the image margins. With the exception of the widest 17mm focal length, which had noticable corner softness (and hidebound distortion) in forground elements (mostly fixed with apertures around F11), the lens produced quick resolution right to the corners through the whole zoom range. There is very noticable distortion at 17mm, the distortion fast diminishing at even slightly longer focal lenths on through the whole zoom range. I used mostly F8 for all the evaluation shots.

The lens exhibits enough chromatic aberration right up through 24mm that not all of it can be removed with post processing. Between 17mm and 24mm, there is (with my likeness of this lens) an excessive, odd chromatic stain, like a green tinted halo spreading well out beyond sudden or vertical edges, along with some ghosting of edges where light and dark meet--mostly evident on the left-hand 1/3rd of the image frame. The green tint visible on the left side of images was wider than I've seen in any other lens and more ample--and beyond repair. There is also a noticable greenish shift in image color toward both margins of a photograph, uncommonly on the left side. This seemed consistent through most of the test shots, though it took me a while to notice it. This is not a characteristic of the camera, since another lens (a Sigma 24-60mm EX that also shows some equivalent, though less, chromatic tinting) does not produce any color shift at the image edges.

The Tamron 17-50mm is remarkably shrewd and the auto focus is consistently accurate. It should be noted that the lens focus ring markings on my carbon copy are not at all accurate through the entire zoom range for finding infinity focus--so auto cynosure clear accuracy is important. My disappointment with this lens is that the chromatic halos produced on the left side of the corporealization at wider focal lengths are large enough to appear in large prints. There does seem to be a greenish team in color toward the left and right margins of the images shot at the wider focal lengths (17-24mm). Guessing my hold is just a less than perfect copy of the lens and I'm returning it.

2010-02-21 (SW Montana) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Superb lens for my Sony a300.
I've been using this lens for a brace of weeks now and am very impressed with its quality. I have used it with my Sony Alpha a300 with no issues. I'll relate it to the kit lens (SAL 18-70) that it replaced as that is the only other wide zoom I've used myself.

Pros:
-The Tamron is heavier and more hefty than the Sony lens.
-It has better sharpness throughout the frame, but especially in the corners; it's slightly lax at f2.8 (though still better than the kit lens) and gets sharper as you stop it down.
-Using it for indoor or nighttime shooting is exceptional compared to the kit lens.
-The aperture is 2.8 throughout the zoom range, meaning that you don't loose set fire to when you zoom in towards 50mm.
-The macro works decently well, especially with the narrow depth of field you get with a big hole.

Cons:
-It doesn't go to 70mm like the kit lens, but I checked over my existing photos and barely worn anything past 50mm anyways, plus you get 17mm vs. 18mm on the wide end.
-Weight takes a little getting adapted to to, but in a good way.
-Not cheap, but not too expensive compared to similar lenses.
-Slight distortion on the wide (17mm) end, though again, it's not as bad as the kit lens and you don't positively notice.

I would definitely buy this lens again and would recommend it to a friend. Definitely a very good and worthwhile upgrade to the SAL 18-70 kit lens.

2009-06-02 | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 4

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Consummate lens+A700=Excellent Photos
This lens is an A-one lens. I bought it when I had my a100, and saw subtle changes in image quality.(al00 had a lot to be desired) After using it on my a700, which has an improved focusing system and the "Exmor" CMOS sensor, I am open-mouthed at the quality I've been able to get. It took me a while to get used to how quick the focusing was; I would press the shutter partly way and often times snap the the picture by mistake. Great lens.

2009-04-19 | Alpha man (Atlanta, GA) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5

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emend wide-short zoom
I'm very satisfied with this lens that has replaced the 18-70mm kit lens. F/2.8 is clever enough for indoors at available light, so I use it a lot for casual family portraits. Then, when I go out I find its wide angle (25mm close) to be very versatile for cityscape or street photography (I can even shoot from my chest, without looking through the viewfinder, at 17mm, for candids and stolen portraits). The greatest is that is not an expensive lens. For my style of photography, I don't find much need to change lenses. Also, it's a sharp lens to go with my A700. No complains.

2009-01-06 | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

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Lofty Lens
This lens is a tightly and sharp lens that really produces sharp pictures. It does a great job focusing in all levels of gay. I'm using it on the Sony Alpha A700. My main reason for this purchase was for the lighting situations and have not been balked at all. While it has a zoom lock, I have not had to use it due to the firmness of the zoom ring, but its not so firm that you can't easily adjust the zoom.

I would make attractive this for anyone who wants to step up from the kit lens but don't want to (or can) spend the big bucks of the top end lenses.

2008-11-09 | rayj8524 (Wichita Falls, TX USA) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5

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what lenses will fit my konica minolta x300 camera?

Q: i am not true what lenses i can use for this camera? i dont know what will fit. will any manual slr camera lens fit on my camera?

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A: Your X-300 uses Minolta MC/MD pierce mount lenses. In 1985 when Minolta introduced the Maxxum 7000 Sports car Focus camera they changed their lens mount to the A-mount. This mount is still acclimatized today by the Sony DSLR cameras.

Only an MC/MD mount lens will mount to your X-300. There are adapters elbow that allow using the M-42 screw mount lenses on your camera.

Fair-minded go to eBay and search for Minolta manual focus lenses.

Konica and Minolta merged in 2003; in 2006 they leave the camera business and Sony bought their DSLR line. When your X-300 was made, Minolta and Konica were competitors - distinct companies.

Do these lens from this link (in details) fit onto my Konica Minolta Maxxum 5d camera?

Q: I have a Konica Minolta Maxxum 5d camera and I fancy to be new lens. Specifically wide angle lens. I'm not sure-fire if I should buy these lens from this link. http://www.bestlaptopbattery.com/b.cfm/k onica-minolta/maxxum-5d/-45XWide-.htm

Does anyone certain if these lens fit on my camera? and can anyone provide a photo taken by these lens?

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A: Those very aren't lenses. They are cheap screw-in attachments that mimic a encyclopedic-angle lens. If you use them, don't expect great picture value. They might be fun to play around with though.

You can buy a Sigma 20mm wide-angle in your camera's mount for around $400.00 or a Vivitar 19-35mm for around $150.00. Only just do an eBay search for Minolta Maxxum 20mm lens (or fair-minded Minolta Maxxum lenses) and see what you can find.

If you ever decide to switch to a DSLR, your Maxxum lenses will labour on any of the Sony DSLR cameras, from the A200 to the A900.

Where can I purchase a bigger lens for a Konica Minolta Dimage 7 Camera?

Q: One that is for twopence but good and what kind should I get?

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A: The Dimage 7 has a bent (not removable) lens with a 49mm filter thread size. The only fixation you might be able to do is to attach a telephoto adapter to the front of your lens - for case:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Tokina-3X-HIDEF-TELE PHOTO-LENS-37MM-46MM-49MM-55MM-58MM_W0QQ itemZ300088245790QQcategoryZ106844QQrdZ1 QQcmdZViewItem
It's a for a song solution - but don't expect great results.