Raynox and a Nifty Fifty

Well it does say no on their site. It may well be that it distorts too much at 50mm. Is there much difference in price?
 
Amazon prices.....

DCR-150 and DCR-250?...£32 (y)

DCR-5320PRO 3-in-1....£236 :thumbsdown:

D in W
 
have a look at Flickr, many people on there using the 50mm with a DCR250.

Also look here, post no.39 someone asking the same question.
 
I can't comment on the Nikkor nifty, but it works perfectly well on my Canon flavour. What's the filter thread size on that lens ?
 
I can't comment on the Nikkor nifty, but it works perfectly well on my Canon flavour. What's the filter thread size on that lens ?


same here i have the canon 50mm 1.8 with 52mm thread and it works fine on a 40d 1.6 crop factor

not sure which camera you have as to wether the crop factor will influience it, any thing less than 50mm causes severe vignetting
 
I've tried my DCR-250 on a borrowed nikkor 50mm f/1.8 before and it worked fine, no vignetting.
 
I have a Canon nifty fifty, 52mm and a raynox DCR250 and it works fine.
It gets lovely clear pix and there's no problem with the universal Raynox attachment fitting the 52mm filter thread.
 
It says 75mm*

The * is to tell you that that is 35mm equivalent so that's about right for 50mm on a crop sensor.
 
Works fine...

excuse the rushed, hand-held job though.

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got a nifty 35 (can i say that? ;) ) and a raynox 250 arriving monday. Good times...

would i be better using the raynox on my tamron 17-50 though?
 
got a nifty 35 (can i say that? ;) ) and a raynox 250 arriving monday. Good times...

would i be better using the raynox on my tamron 17-50 though?

Probably... the longer the focal length the higher the magnification.
Try both and see which you prefer.
 
Thanks for this Dave! When I get mine I'll try it out and I'll try a longer lens too!
 
Just got mine, fits on my 50 1.8 (but not much else as most of my lenses are too big, 77mm etc)

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I guess if I had a longer lens with a suitable thread I'd be better equipped for using the raynox. But I'd have no other use for a longer lens like that as I have a 70-200 2.8 VR and 85 1.4 (not counting my 17-55) and it fits on none of those.

Believe somebody on here said the longer the lens the better no?
 
I guess if I had a longer lens with a suitable thread I'd be better equipped for using the raynox. But I'd have no other use for a longer lens like that as I have a 70-200 2.8 VR and 85 1.4 (not counting my 17-55) and it fits on none of those.

Believe somebody on here said the longer the lens the better no?

I am probably wrong but are all the lenses you mentioned with a 77mm thread?

If so the universal adapter would work if you used this step down adapter. Quite a cheap option too.


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/77mm-67mm-77-...ns_caps_hoods_adaptors_ET&hash=item19c1dde46b


Or there's this, more expensive set from Amazon.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fotodiox-An...1_fkmr1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1294848681&sr=1-2-fkmr1


You'll get a bit of vingneting at minimum focal length.
 
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Couple more with the 50 1.8 / d200 / bounced flash combo (tell me if I need to stop posting in here :D )

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