I picked up a toy to add to the fun I’ve been having with the Olympus C-5050: the Vivitar HD4 MC AF High Definition 0.43x Wide Angle Converter W/Macro. I’m pretty sure it was designed for security cameras, but add it a 41–>52mm filter adapter designed to screw onto the front of the Oly, and *poof!* …
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Closer
as close as it gets (2)
And this is as close as it gets without any additional aid. The eye isn’t quite in focus, but that’s often what you get when you’re holding the camera at arms length, maybe 2″ away from the subject, trying to follow it on a tiny screen from 2002. I did pick up a wide angle/macro …
(not quite) as close as it gets
After receiving a small Canon point-and-shoot back in 2006 or so, Mom had little use for her aging Olympus C-5050, and so she passed it on to me. DPReview has a much more thorough review than you’ll find here, in fact, all you get from me today is a brief usage report and a couple …
