Thanks to my granddad’s tendency of buying gadgets, I ended up with a secondhand Raynox 0.72x wide angle conversion lens. It came in a super retro looking box advertising that DCR-720 Broadens your angle of view 38% more ! I don’t have any particular wish to get more wide-angle photos but I thought I might as well try it out.
All this fuss about photography and I still haven’t got the discipline to take good close ups with my phone.
The lens screws onto the front of a regular camera lens, but it’s made for a 52mm thread and the only lens I have is the Canon 18-55 kit lens, which has a 58mm thread. I got a 58-to-52 step down converter on ebay for about £5 which worked fine.
As you can see, putting something smaller on the front leads to vignetting when zoomed all the way out, which I enjoy a lot. There is also some nice wide angle distortion.
Yes, yes, it’s autumn, I admit it.
This is still South Wales. I think I took these pictures in a town and a village but I’m not sure if the village was just a neighbourhood, since there is nothing about it online.
The pictures which are not zoomed all the way out could just as easily have been taken with the same lens without the converter on it; it would be more exciting if I was adding wide angle onto a lens that was already super wide angle, and if it were a prime rather than a zoom lens. But it was still fun.