Contour HD with wider lens

[Morne 0]

Does anybody have a contour with the xtremevu lens protector with the 43mm adaptor? Have you used a wider lens on it?

This is the lens I am looking at getting for my contour HD. Comes with a 37to43 adaptor also and not too badly priced.

http://www.raynox.co.jp/english/video/hd5050pro/index.htm

[bomb420 1]

You will get huge vignetting from it and I believe it does not focus. Some of my guys tried it and said it wouldn't work.
-Trunk

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[Hellis 0]

The Raynox 5050 will work, only vingetting problem.

I have not used it with xvusas mount but i belive it will be the same result as with the contour mount.
I know it will suck, but i suggest you glue the lens to the lensmount.

[bomb420 1]

Hellis, mind posting a frame grab from video from of this. Sorry for the misinformation then, I had a military group try it out and they said it was a no go.

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[Hellis 0]

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheHellis

You are correct that some lenses will not work, but the 5050 will work.
The Raynox 3030 will also work but you will have the same field of veiw as the 5050 but just more vingetting.
The Liquid lens is one of those that does not work. But i have heard and seen other (sony) cameras having problems with that lens too.

[Morne 0]

Can you please give me an example of the type of vingetting I will get?

Not real keen on gluing th lens mount..

[Hellis 0]

Have you tried clicking on the link in post #5?

[Morne 0]

Yes I did , just want to make sure.

So it is the black circle edges?

[Hellis 0]

That is the inside of the wideanglelens.
If the lens would be shorter it would probably not be that much of a problem.

[Morne 0]

Thanks Hellis for the info

Have you compared it with and without the lens to determine how much more viewing space you get?

% wise what would you say?

[Hellis 0]

I used to have pictures of that but i deleted them a few weeks ago
Here is a video of a different 0.5x lens, cant remember the name of it.
But the Raynox lens is more wideangled and has better focus than this one.
http://contour.com/stories/05x-wideangle-lens

I belive that we came to the conclusion that the Raynox 0.5 was about the same as a 0.3 of the lens in the video.
Looking at the video it does not seem like much difference, but with a Raynox there is a big difference.