wildpanda86 Posted October 22, 2009 Share #1 Posted October 22, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Trying to decide on a good lens adapter for filters and add on lens. Any thoughts on lensmate vs pandabase? The lensmate site only shows the adApters and filters, but the pandabase has a whole set you can get with the adapter, wide lens, fisheye, and telephoto..Does anyone have experience with this? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted October 22, 2009 Posted October 22, 2009 Hi wildpanda86, Take a look here Dlux4 Lensmate or Pandabase adapter. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
bill Posted October 22, 2009 Share #2 Posted October 22, 2009 Welcome Mr. Panda. If you look to the top of the screen you will find a "search" facility. Many of your questions will be answered by using it. Regards, BIll Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barconti Posted October 22, 2009 Share #3 Posted October 22, 2009 I purchased the Panasonic version and it works fine. It is 46 mm and I step up to 52mm. It allows me to put a ring light in the camera for macro work. I have to zoom through it to avoid taking pictures of the ring. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildpanda86 Posted October 22, 2009 Author Share #4 Posted October 22, 2009 Looking back and forth... Pandabase seems to have more possibilities, they have different combos that come with the adapter, wide lens or fish eye or telephoto, and filters... Is their stuff pretty decent quality? Thinking of doing the combo with the wide lens + telephoto adapter + filters... Wide Telephoto Filter Hood 4 Leica D-LUX4 LUX 4 10634 - eBay (item 130335206981 end time Nov-03-09 18:17:08 PST) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltphoto1 Posted October 23, 2009 Share #5 Posted October 23, 2009 Looking back and forth... Pandabase seems to have more possibilities, they have different combos that come with the adapter, wide lens or fish eye or telephoto, and filters... Is their stuff pretty decent quality? Thinking of doing the combo with the wide lens + telephoto adapter + filters... Wide Telephoto Filter Hood 4 Leica D-LUX4 LUX 4 10634 - eBay (item 130335206981 end time Nov-03-09 18:17:08 PST) The adapter is is fine. Do not waste your money on the cheap wide angle and telephoto adapters. They will not come even close to the quality of the lens on the camera you have invested in. The adapter, a lens hood, and high quality circular polarizer all make sense. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildpanda86 Posted October 23, 2009 Author Share #6 Posted October 23, 2009 The adapter is is fine. Do not waste your money on the cheap wide angle and telephoto adapters. They will not come even close to the quality of the lens on the camera you have invested in. The adapter, a lens hood, and high quality circular polarizer all make sense. That's pretty much what I'm gonna end up doing... just adapter & polarizer... I see different prices for polarizers, any suggestions? BTW how is the Panasonic wide angle adapter in terms of picture quality? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltphoto1 Posted October 26, 2009 Share #7 Posted October 26, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) I stick to Hoya and B+W filters. For my D-Lux 4 I have a Hoya multi-coated polarizer. Some of the cheap ones can show distortion and add a lot of flare. I have not tried the Panasonic wide angle adapter, so can offer no useful information there other than some others have been happy with it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelos Viskadourakis Posted November 3, 2009 Share #8 Posted November 3, 2009 i have both and i end up using the lensmate as it comes with two clips that goes on the OEM lens cap and cover the lens all the time easily when not in use. PS pana is metal lensmate is durable plastic,i dont use additional lenses on DLUX4. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPS Posted November 3, 2009 Share #9 Posted November 3, 2009 lensmate is durable plastic My lensmate is aluminum ! The seller seems to think it's aluminum also: Lensmateonline - Leica D-lux4 4and Panasonic Lumix LX3 - Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelos Viskadourakis Posted November 3, 2009 Share #10 Posted November 3, 2009 you are right is aluminum the paint confused me,thank you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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