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Canon PowerShot A610
Canon PowerShot A610
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Ian (ipmarr) 0 pts

Telephoto and Wide angle lenses

I own a Canon A610 and purchased a wide angle and a telephoto lense. Is there a specific or setting or configuration I should use with theses lenses? For example, should the digital zoom be off? With the lense on the it blocks the flash, so on close up pictures it casts a shadow is there a fix? What should it be set on to avoid the tunnel effect with the telephoto lense? There is nothing in the users manual and Canon only has info on it's DSLR lenses on it's website.
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Jan Meja Heir (catalyst) 506 pts
June 3, 2007 6:22 PM
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No specific settings needed to use those, though you will be losing light and sharpness by using them. Digital zoom should always be off regardless of using them, it does you no good at all and is there purely for marketing. It is quite possible it will block the flash on the wide angle adapter, you'll just have to try it to find out...most likely it will but no way to say for certain until you do it. Only solution to that would be using an external flash, but since it has no shoe or external sync on that camera you won't be able to do that too well. Best bet would be to tape a diffuser or bounce card onto the flash. As for the tunnel effect with the telephoto, I don't really know what you're referring to...what tunnel effect?

You say you already purchased these lenses? Have you tried them out on the camera at all?
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Ian (ipmarr) 0 pts
June 3, 2007 11:08 PM
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I have tried the lenses. In regards to the tunnel effect, when you zoom out it creates a dark area around the outside of the view. I was just wondering if there is a way to set the camera so that it stays within the parameters to keep it from showing that dark area. I can zoom out and after a certain point it no longer shows that area. It would just be me more convenient if I could just use the custom setting function to keep it out of the tunnel range when I have the telephoto on. If not, I can just work around it. The wide angle and macro lense work without any issues really other than the shadow from the flash hitting the lense, and it really doesn't affect the macro lense that much.
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Jan Meja Heir (catalyst) 506 pts
June 4, 2007 1:17 AM
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Strange that effect would happen on the telephoto, I would imagine that would come from the wide angle. What it sounds like is happening is the field of view is going wide enough to hit the lense itself. If it has a lense hood on, remove it. If there's any filters on, remove them. Other than that, not much can be done aside from cropping in post...at which point it's pretty much the same sort of thing as just not going that wide.
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