Century Optics Wide Angle?

[DammitJanet]

I've got a Century Optics Wide Angle lens that was made for the HVX200 and I'm wondering if I'll be able to use it with the HMC150 as well.

Here's the model. http://www.schneideroptics.com/ecommerce/CatalogItemDetail.aspx?CID=1483&IID=864

Any thoughts?

:dankk2:

 

[MattRobertson]

Im not sure if it will, but the hmc already has a really wide angle, so if I were you i'd save the $775 and spend it on a nice tripod or something

 

[matt s.]

Not if its bayonet mount. If it were screw mount you would need a step down ring from 82mm-72mm.

Another Nashville shooter with the 150?

 

[Mark Von Lanken]

I don't know if that lens will work with the HMC150, but I recently did on online comparison with three Century Optics lenses which were made for the 150/170. Click on the link and select Von Real, Episode 1

http://www.eventdv-tv.com/

 

[ryvac]

you can use the 82mm-72mm step down ring and attach it like matte said.
even if the frame doesn't fit, you can zoom in and get the frame right were it should be.

 

[nfc565]

you can use the 82mm-72mm step down ring and attach it like matte said.
even if the frame doesn't fit, you can zoom in and get the frame right were it should be.

if youre going to be zooming in, that would defeat the purpose of the wide angle. That lens is .75x and wouldnt give you that much more to start with, at the studio im at, we have a .8x wide angle, and i would almost rather just have saved the $$$ and bought some more batteries because i had to step down to 72mm from 82, and one step ring gave me vignetting, so by the time i zoomed in, it was less wide than the stock lens.

 

[ryvac]

if youre going to be zooming in, that would defeat the purpose of the wide angle. That lens is .75x and wouldnt give you that much more to start with, at the studio im at, we have a .8x wide angle, and i would almost rather just have saved the $$$ and bought some more batteries because i had to step down to 72mm from 82, and one step ring gave me vignetting, so by the time i zoomed in, it was less wide than the stock lens.

sorry to hear that.
I actually used third party wide angle lens on different camera's and I like I said I do have to zoom in all the time but I always still get wider shots with it...

 

[Justyn]

NOPE. it will NOT work. I got pissed about this too. Century isn't making any adapters or such.. they want you and me to buy new products.. They said there would be a compromise in imagery to do it anyother way and.. the whole reason I love their glass is because its bayonnet mount.