Pentax DA 55-300mm f/4-5.8 ED Lens for Pentax and Samsung Digital SLR Cameras

List Price: $429.95 Price: Too low to display

Product Details Developed specifically for PENTAX digital SLRs ED elements compensate for chromatic aberration Extreme telephoto range zoom lens Focal length equivalent to 82.5mm to 450mm in the 35mm format

Product Description

This merchandise is a highly efficient zoom lens that covers the short to crave telephoto range. The exclusive Pentax SP coating effectively protects its front lens against talk and contamination. Additionally, the focusing ring permits easy guide focusing. Optics is especially adapted for high quality Pentax DSLRs.

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The expert Pentax DA 55-300mm zoom lens offers a focal length synonymous of 82.5 to 450mm in the 35mm format, making it ideal for moderate to fancy sports and wildlife shots. The lens is outfitted with multiple ED eyeglasses elements, which are designed to minimize chromatic aberration and makes images look crisper and sharper than ever before. The Pentax Wonderful Protective coating, meanwhile, protects the exposed lens elements against rubbish and contamination. Other features include a focusing ring that permits effortless manual focusing, a 4.6-foot close focusing interval, and a 58mm filter diameter. Specially adapted for high-quality Pentax and Samsung digital SLR cameras, the lens carries a one-year bond.

Specifications

• Focal length: 55-300mm
• Maximum aperture: f/4 to 5.8
• Minutest aperture: f/22 to 32
• Lens construction: 12 elements in 8 groups
• Point of view: 29 to 5.4 degrees (when used with Pentax digital SLR camera firmness)
• Number of diaphragm blades: 6
• Minimum focusing distance: 4.6 feet
• Topmost magnification: 0.28x
• Filter diameter: 58mm
• Diaphragm restraint: Fully automatic
• Hood: PH-RBG 58mm
• Objective cap: O-LC58
• Case: S80-160
• Corresponding AF mounts: Pentax and Samsung
• Dimensions: 2.8 inches in diameter and 4.4 inches sustained
• Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Warranty: 1 year

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Customer Reviews

I warmth this Lens
This is a actually good lens. Upgraded from the smaller 55-200mm it has a good focal range and best clarity. I am really looing foward to taking this lens to an airshow to really try it out.

2010-02-06 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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a beat zoom lens
it is a witty lens for zoom 55 300.
there is a little CA on the object, but it is not a big deal for me if compared with sigma or tamron.

2009-11-18 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Heinous value zoom
This lens is a in the end great deal and unless you are going to pay waaay more, picking up this lens is a no brainer. The end I only give it 4 stars is that while the IQ is excellent, it's still not on par with the DA* lenses. It takes excellent pictures but they just lack that POP that the DA* and other top end lenses give you but it is a very sharp lens which makes appointment processing that much easier.

Ideally, I would like a DA* 50-135 and a DA* 300 to cover the similar register but that would run close to 2K. So all in all I am very happy with this little lens.

2009-09-19 | ssgman (San Francisco, CA USA) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 4

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Pentax DA 55-300mm f/4-5.8 ED Lens
This is a high-grade zoom lens. I especially enjoy taking pictures of low flying planes with it.

2009-09-09 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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a awful performer
I have had this lens for about a month now. First the passable things: This lens is surprisingly sharp from 55mm all the way through 300mm and there is not much difference in sharpness between widely unprotected and close down aperture. The weight is just about right and focusing speed is ok for me. But, my lens has very sedulous chromatic abberation when it is widely open, all through the zoom range. The color (blue) ruffle is pretty (excuse me for not being scientifically accurate) wide. In a test shot, the black lettering (on a white background) became all blue at the short end of the lens at f4 and f5.6. I did not bother to return my lens for amenities or exchange, because it is so sharp and I can avoid most of the chromatic abberation by not shooting high contrast subjects. At about 350 dollars, this lens is not at all a foresee as somebody has suggested. But it performs much better than many other lens in this league.

2009-08-11 (Triangle, NC USA) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 4

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Pentax DA 50-200mm f/4-5.6 ED Lens for Pentax and Samsung DSLR Cameras

List Price: $0.00 Price: $225.30

Product Details Measures 2.6 inches in diameter and 3.1 inches long; weighs 9.2 ounces Includes lens hood to minimize flare and ghost images; 4x zoom coverage in telephoto range Responsive Quick-Shift Focus System allows instant shifts from auto to manual focus 50-200mm telephoto zoom lens with f/4-5.6 maximum aperture for Pentax DSLR cameras

Product Description

Fits of laughter Pentax Digital SLR Camera models / Fully Automatic Diaphragm / Compact Value / Includes Lens Hood / Accepts 52mm Filters Metering System - TTL unseal-aperture metering Minimum Focusing - 3.61 feet Colander Diameter - 52mm Maximum Magnification - 0.24 Maximum Diameter - 2.6 inches (66.5mm) Limit Length - 3.1 inches (78.5mm) Weight (w/o Hood) - 9.2 oz. (260g) Hood - PH-RBB52 Of a piece focal length to 75mm-300mm in the 35mm format Compact dimensions with nominal aberrations Responsive Quick-Shift Focus System allows twinkling of an eye shift from AF to MF The image circle is designed to match the CCD used in PENTAX digital SLRs Comes with a lens hood to downplay flare and ghost images

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Intended for exclusive use with Pentax KAF-mount digital SLR cameras including the *ist D and the *ist DS digital SLRs, the Pentax DA 50-200mm f4-5.6 ED lens offers 4x zoom span in the telephoto range. Further, the lens features an angle of view from 31.5 degrees to 8.1 degrees (synonymous in focal length from 76.5mm to 306mm in the 35mm format).

The lens also incorporates an Again-low Dispersion (ED) glass lens element (11-element/10-gang optical construction) and two aspherical lens elements for true-to-sustenance image reproduction and overall size reduction. The image ringlet in DA-series lenses is designed to perfectly match the 23.5mm x 15.7mm size of the CCD in use accustomed to in Pentax digital SLRs to optimize camera performance. The new design also contributes to a puissant reduction in size, weight and production cost, compared to 35mm-dimensions counterparts with similar specifications.

Other features include:

• Compact dimensions with smallest aberrations
• Responsive Quick-Shift Focus System allows earnest shift from AF to MF
• Comes with a lens hood to minimize flare and vision images
• 52mm filter size
• Weighs 9.2 ounces
• Preparations 2.6 x 3.1 inches (diameter x length)

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Customer Reviews

Good little mid-range lens!
I to begin with bought this lens with my Pentax K10D a few years ago, and used it some then, until I got a Sigma 28-300, which I used virtually always, with justifiable occasional swapping with the 18-55 kit lens. Unfortunately, my Sigma fogged up recently universal in and out of a cold hockey rink to the warm concessions area, I think. And it never fogged. (I believe I could sell it on E-bay... which is why I never buy that way!)

Well out of the closet came the 50-200 for today's game. I was very pleasantly impressed with how well it worked for alluring pictures out to the ends of the hockey rink, although I was above mid-rink doing the scoreboard. The pics were brighter and sharper than the Sigma's ever were. While it undeniably isn't perfect (I'd love a F2.8 or similar expensive monster!) it does a great job for the price. So 5 stars.

In event I like it so much that my next long glass will be the Pentax, too. Sigma and Tamron have Pentax beat for inexpensive all-in-one, but the Pentax sharpness is value the lens change.

2010-03-07 (Baraboo, WI) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Another Monstrous Lens from Pentax
I bought this lens for my fiance for Christmas (and of sure I had to test it out first once he opened it) and I love this lens. For the mm range it's very compact and easy to lug around with the camera. It's quality built and has the yardstick 52mm size (which is great since his old filters are 52mm). Takes great pictures both indoor and out (although you aren't customary to get the good wide angle shots you would with less mm). Would recommend this as a great starter telephoto. You can't pelt the price/quality of this lens.

2010-01-30 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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pentax lens
In particularWas hesitant to buy from a new vendor with no reviews. My worries were unfounded. The lens works great and I have acquainted with it over the Holidays with excellent results.
The lens was shipped much earlier than listed . which was a wonderful out of the blue. THIS ITEM WAS PURCHASED THRU AMAZON.

2010-01-09 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Skilful lens...small profile
I own a Pentax K10D that came with the 18-55 mm lens. I was looking for a lens that would permit better zoom. So far it has lived up to my expectations. The compact size is a plus. The profile is precisely identical to the 18-55 mm. Having a small Pentax camera bag, I can manage to fit the camera, two lenses, and all the accessories in to a grab and shoot bag. The lens employment fast, feels well constructed and images have been fantastic. Excellent price too.

2009-10-30 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Pentax does an gain job
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Hey, everything works right away. The optics look good. I'm not a professional but this Pentax telephoto lens works great with my Pentax K200. I'd advisable this for your Pentax camera.

2009-09-13 | MM (Hamilton, OH USA) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 4

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Tamron AF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 Di LD Macro Zoom Lens for Pentax Digital SLR Cameras

List Price: $366.55 Price: Too low to display

Product Details 70-300mm telephoto zoom lens Minimum focus distance as short as 37.4"

Product Description

Tamron now offers a lightweight, condensed, high-image-quality telephoto zoom lens with macro talent 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 veil cameras.With this 70-300mm telephoto zoom lens, flipping a macro turn in the focal length range of 180mm to 300mm obtains a climax magnification ratio of 1: 2 at a minimum focus distance as straight as 37.4", enabling close-up shots of flowers, insects, and other objects that normally be short of the use of a specially designed macro lens. Moreover, this is a zoom lens that cozily offers the distant capture and foreshortening effect pleasures of the 300mm ultra-telephoto epoch.

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Customer Reviews

Mignonne good for the price
I've ad my lens for a week now, you can probably pay twice as much for an equivalent lens. Having said that, I'll just add that is takes pretty honourable pictures, combines seamlessly with my Pentax SLR autofocus, the only slight problem I encountered is that the zoom is amiable of hard to move, with use I feel it getting more maneuverable.

2010-02-22 | LAM | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Monogram impressions
Nobility value for money I have been very pleased with the results so far. I am still trying to work out if the slight flaws I am seeing when I goods and then blow up the pictures digitally are blemishes in the lens or the camera: I suspect the later.

2010-02-21 (Saint John, NB Canada) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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OK champion for its value
Purchased this commodity to accompany my Pentax K2000 and its 18-55mm kit lens. Image result was great. It's a little fortissimo, but easy to focus. Not as heavy compare with other lenses. Used it to shoot the moon couple times and metaphor turned out good even without a tripod. Definitely would recommend for those on a budget.

2010-02-17 (Houston, TX) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Outstanding value!
For the rolling in it it is a very good lens. As far as I'm concerned you can't beat it for the price. I have used it quite a bit, and am amazed at the eminence verses the price you pay. The "macro" mode is surprisingly good. And I do not notice the "softness" at 300mm most population talk about. I use it at baseball games, and my photos at 300mm are plenty good for me.I would love to have a 70-200 f2.8, but unluckily, it is out of my price range for now. So, in the meantime, this lens will serve me quite well.

2009-12-21 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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tranquil to use
I bought this to use with my Pentax K20D dslr camera. I needed to get nearer to some images in the yard and for future use. I love it I sat on the porch and took pictures of the gold finches eating about 15 to 20 feet somewhere else. The pictures turned out perfect,it was like I was right next to them. I have had a manual slr camera in the past and used a 500mm lens, the lens chunky and heavy this lens is lightweight and easy to use.I would recommend this lens to anyone one who likes to get close-up and individual to their subjects.

2009-09-22 (Iowa) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5

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Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG Macro Telephoto Zoom Lens for Pentax and Samsung SLR Cameras

List Price: $220.00 Price: $159.00 You Save: $61.00 (28%)

Product Details Minimum focusing distance is 59 inches at all zoom settings High-performance lens ideal for portraits, sports photography, nature photography Multi-layer lens coating and lens design reduces flare and ghosting Optimized for use with digital SLR cameras

Product Description

Clever of macro photography, this lens has a 1:2 maximum close-up ennoblement at the 300 mm focal length. It's the ideal high performance lens for portraits, sports photography, temperament photography, and other types of photography that frequently use the telephoto range. It also has a swap for changeover to macro photography at focal lengths between 200mm and 300mm with a climactic close-up magnification from 1:2.9 to 1:2.SLD (Special Low Dispersion) glassware in this lens provides excellent correction of chromatic aberration.

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The Sigma 70-300mm f4-5.6 DG Macro Lens for Pentax Digital SLR Cameras is a telephoto lens that offers select cost performance and is optimized for use with digital SLR cameras. Capable of macro photography, this lens has a 1:2 summit close-up magnification at the 300 millimeter focal length. It's the nonpareil principles high performance lens for portraits, sports photography, primitiveness photography, and other types of photography that frequently use the telephoto range. The lens features a thrash for changeover to macro photography at focal lengths between 200 millimeters and 300 millimeters, with a pinnacle close-up magnification from 1:2.9 to 1:2.

The multi-layer lens coating and lens scheme reduce flare and ghosting, which is a common problem with digital cameras, and it also creates an excellent color balance through the entire zoom range. The minimum focusing interval is 59 inches at all zoom settings. The lens features a redirect for changeover to macro photography at focal lengths between 200 millimeters and 300 millimeters with a topmost close-up magnification. Without changing the distance between camera and subject, you can change the shooting amplification.

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Customer Reviews

OK,It's Not a Nikon, But the Drinking-glass is Good!
If you're in the same pecuniary position as I am, you probably gulp when checking out the prices of OEM lenses. Sigma offers a really laudatory alternative. This particular lens is as unwieldy as it's competitors, but gives good quality photos. The macro present (read the instructions before using!) is a pretty neat bonus, too. Check out the Sigma ancestry if your wallet is not bulging with greenbacks.

2010-03-03 (New Hampshire, USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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For beginners like me, it's does the job.
Okay, i'm on a budget and i'm a novice. This does the job for me. The quality of this glass is really good and it does exceptionally well with macro shots.

It also produces high-minded Bokeh.
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But if you're taking macro shots of objects that are a few inches away, this isn't for you.
(Try getting sigma/canon 50mm and get an stretch tube or buy a more expensive Macro lens if you have the moolah.)

This lens is really affordable and a must for semi novice like me.
;)

2010-02-28 | life's a pleasure! | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Sigma Lens
Have had to have it repaired, not trustworthy why, wish we would have checked Consumer reports on this item, we may have made a different choice of a lens.

2010-02-06 (Northern Maine) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 3

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Well benefit the money.
I bought this lens as a birthday forte for my wife. We use it with our Canon Digital Rebel XT and it works perfectly. The lens has a very good photograph quality and is very easy to attach/remove from the camera. Of course, it comes with lens covers for both locks of hair of the lens and they are very good quality covers; actually, IMO, better than the lens covers that our Canon lens came with. They tarry on well and provide great protection for traveling.

The lens has a switch on it to go from normal photography to macro shots. Comprehensive, I was impressed with the quality and ease of use with macro photos with this lens. It is easy to take good dignity macro shots with this lens (and trust me, I'm a beginner!).

Overall, I am very well pleased with this lens and contemplate you will be too!

2009-12-30 | Allen Pierson (Buckhannon, WV) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Rubbish!!!
Lay yourself the trouble. I purchased this lens to use for some basic shots around the house during the Holidays. First, every photo is very tolerant in the corners. You need to crop the edges away or darken the outer portions of the photo to be usable. More troubling, the AF motor stopped working after aprox 75 shots. Honourable stopped working and has only a faint clicking noise. Junk!! Going back after 2 natural life and 75 shots...

Bought the Nikon 55-200mm AF-S VR today for $50 more and it's sharper, has greater contrast and colors, and since it's a Nikkor lens, it should make it past 75 photos.

You get what you pay for, get the Nikon...

2009-12-08 | Finner321 (USA) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 1

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Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AL Lens for Pentax and Samsung Digital SLR Cameras

List Price: $249.95

Product Details Equivalent focal length 27.5-84 millimeter in the 35 millimeter format with *ist DS Comes with a lens hood to minimize flare and ghost images Responsive "Quick-Shift Focus System" allows instant shift from auto focus to manual focus The image circle is designed to match the CCD used in Pentax digital SLRs

Product Description

Pentax has been a kingpin in the photographic field for many years. Many Pentax innovations have become standards in the industry. Pentax's passion and devotion towards the development of high-quality products have thrived over the years and continues to be stronger than ever.

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Customer Reviews

It's Overwhelming. All around usefull lens
Hay what can i say. I regard as every Photographer should have this lens. It's a multi Lens.....

2010-02-10 | Kimohead (Hawaii) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Hey, I'm a photographer again!!
I was exceptionally into photography way back in the now ancient film era, back when all focusing was manual and the camera could not even suggest an exposure, let alone set itself. Now, however, I am older; the eyes are not so kindly any more, and I tend to be a bit shaky. Recently, however, I discovered the Pentax K100d DSLR camera, with automatic focusing and an anti-wiggle feature. Coupled with the DA 18-55mm Pentax lens, the quality of my photos more than compensates for my difficulties and I am once again demolished in the pure joy of taking quality photos that enhance the memories. This is an excellent workhorse lens, and I system to use it quite extensively, especially after retirement.

2009-11-08 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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one pudding lens
this is one candy lens, from the aluminum construction, to the awesome feel as I turn the barrel. Also the ability to sharply defined unclear manualy is a refreshing twist that Pentax should be given credit for.

Overall for the money this smokes..... unflinching some will say this is only a starter lens...... Well the proof is in the pudding and this lens like I said is lovely.

2009-10-07 | Topkat (SC, US of A) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Pentax DA 18-55mm Lens
Working incomparable. So much better than using my old manual lens from my film Pentax camera.

2009-05-12 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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Pentax Lens 18-55mm
More than pleasantly surprised with the je sais quoi and versitility of this lens. If you're a Pentax user, add this lense to your arsenal, you won't be disappointed

2008-12-28 | Doug H (NY) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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Are Pentax camera lenses totally interchangeable?

Q: I am looking into getting a key SLR camera. I have a Pentax K1000, and 3 or 4 lenses for it. To cut down on cost, I was thinking about getting a Pentax K200D, because I heard that all lenses are interchangeable (except there wouldn't be vehicle focus) so I wouldn't have to buy more lenses for the new SLR. I'd like to know if the lenses are really interchangeable. Also, if you have any suggestions for textile (basic) SLRs, I'd appreciate that. Thanks

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A: Yes, your lenses for the K1000 will mount to the K200D. There are some limitations but they should be submerged in the Owner's Manual or the Pentax web site.

Best lenses for an old manual Pentax KM camera?

Q: I was presupposed an old Pentax camera with a Pentax M 50mm f/2 lens on it. What other lenses would you recommend for this camera? Third party lenses are OK as well as Pentax lenses. Thanks

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A: Some very respectable advice from Pauly on the 135mm telephoto as it's a very sharp lens. I also like the feeling of a 28mm wide angle and possibly a zoom.

The Vivitar Series 1 zooms (above all those made for them by Tokina) were very good lenses. Great results across most of the usable zoom sort and a very sturdy well built lens (a bit on the heavy side).

Pentax makes a very close 28-90mm zoom that was designed for their autofocus line but will exertion quite nicely on your KM.

A great resource for lenses and specifications:

http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/

This is a imagined resource for all Pentax owners and will give you a full account of all Pentax offerings. Keep shooting.

XL1s lens to old Pentax camera lens?

Q: Hello i have legitimate purchased an XL1s and am planning to do a movie with it. The lens which comes with the camera has too much of a big brilliance of field. So i was wandering whether i could get a much smaller depth of field by making an adapter to fit an old Pentax k1000 lens
Is this growing to be possible and how would i go around doing it

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A: Hi Art,

Yes, Novoflex makes an adapter to mount Pentax K-mount lenses onto Canon XL series video cameras:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/fallout/56 4634-REG/Novoflex_XLPENT_XL_PENT_Lens_Mo unt_Adapter.html#features

As far as I can make known, it does not appear to have image-degrading glass elements. However, you do use the lens in arrest-down mode.

Novoflex also makes adapters to fit several other brands of lenses onto Canon XL video cameras:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controll er/profoundly?O=search&A=search&Q=& ;ci=0&sb=ps&sq=desc&sortDrop =Relevance&ac=&bsi=&bhs=t&am p;shs=xl+adapter&ci=12013&at=Bra nd_Novoflex&basicSubmit=Submit+Problem

Canon makes an adapter for EF EOS lenses to fit onto Canon XL video cameras:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/merchandise/14 6134-REG/Canon_3162A002_EF_Adapter_XL_fo r.html

However, according to one reviewer, due FYI, it's also a 4x teleconverter, therefore not much help with wide angle:

http://reviews.pricegrabber.com/camcorde r-lenses-side dishes/m/1576860/st=produc t_tab/

Also, if it acts as a teleconverter, then it probably has aspect-degrading glass elements.

But it does appear to have electronics, therefore maybe doesn't press for stop-down mode. That's just a guess, I would suggest asking in this village square:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/canon-xl-h-se ries-hdv-camcorders/


Wholesome luck and have fun with your project!

Greg