mugent Posted June 25, 2011 Share #1  Posted June 25, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hi,  I'm considering purchasing an X1, I know you can get filter adapters, but can you put a wide adapter on one and get reasonable results?  I've seen results from a Fuji X100 with a wide adapter and the results were shockingly good, much better than I'd expect. The principle is surely the same on the Leica...  It's not a show stopper for me, but the idea of having something so tiny being able to do super wide in addition to a normal lenses is very attractive.  Cheers  Moray Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pgeobc Posted June 25, 2011 Share #2 Â Posted June 25, 2011 Well, not without Leica lens quality to match the X1. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mugent Posted June 25, 2011 Author Share #3 Â Posted June 25, 2011 Well, not without Leica lens quality to match the X1. Â I know there isn't a Leica branded one, and I know that anything in front of the lens will degrade the quality. Everything is a compromise, but a imperfect superwide is better than no superwide at all. Â MT Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted June 25, 2011 Share #4 Â Posted June 25, 2011 Firstly, I'd suggest that you need a different camera, one with a wider range zoom, or one that you can fit a suitable wideangle lens to, like an M or an SLR. Â Secondly, you can make your X1 lens wider - step backwards to get what you want in the frame, or stitch multiple images together. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted June 25, 2011 Share #5 Â Posted June 25, 2011 Why pay the Leica premium, then throw that premium away with a third party wide angle stick on lens? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mugent Posted June 26, 2011 Author Share #6  Posted June 26, 2011 Why pay the Leica premium, then throw that premium away with a third party wide angle stick on lens?  True, but why pay the Leica premium and shoot at 1600ISO, or use a polarizer, or use a macro filter... I obviously wouldn't use it all the time, if I did, then the X1 would be a poor choice of camera.  I already have an SLR with most of the capability I need, it's just very large and heavy, and I'm trying to figure out if I can get most of what I need in a much smaller package.  I'll try to figure something out.  Cheers  MT Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgeobc Posted June 26, 2011 Share #7 Â Posted June 26, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) "I know there isn't a Leica branded one, and I know that anything in front of the lens will degrade the quality..." Â Well, a perfect example of this is the close-up set for my Rolleiflex, made by Rollei; the results are quite good, all things considered. However, an imperfect example is that of the set made by Yashica for the Yashica Mat series; they had a really awful reputation. Â Years ago, my wife had an Olympus fully-automatic 35mm camera. It was one of the first that Olympus produced and they had very good add-on tele and wide adaptors. Even years before that, Canon made a set of close-up lenses (aka Diopters) that were not just the simple lenses that most manufacture; they were compound lenses and gave very good results. Â I am unsure that B+W, or Heliopan, or Leica may someday make what you want. Personally, I do not think that the production lifespan of the X1, nor the sales volume of the X1, will entice any manufacturer to offer what is wanted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmradman Posted June 26, 2011 Share #8  Posted June 26, 2011 Hi, I'm considering purchasing an X1, I know you can get filter adapters, but can you put a wide adapter on one and get reasonable results?  I've seen results from a Fuji X100 with a wide adapter and the results were shockingly good, much better than I'd expect. The principle is surely the same on the Leica...  It's not a show stopper for me, but the idea of having something so tiny being able to do super wide in addition to a normal lenses is very attractive.  Cheers  Moray  May I suggest search on eBAY, there could be cheep & cheerful solution somewhere in the the lands of the Far East. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted June 26, 2011 Share #9  Posted June 26, 2011 True, but why pay the Leica premium and shoot at 1600ISO, or use a polarizer, or use a macro filter... I obviously wouldn't use it all the time, if I did, then the X1 would be a poor choice of camera. I already have an SLR with most of the capability I need, it's just very large and heavy, and I'm trying to figure out if I can get most of what I need in a much smaller package.  I'll try to figure something out.  Cheers  MT  Filters or high ISO doesn't distort the image, just buy a door spyhole and abhor through that or Holga make a cheap fisheye camera that looks a lot of fun. Plenty of options out there if you want them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeTexas Posted June 27, 2011 Share #10 Â Posted June 27, 2011 I experimented with making a high-quality wide angle adapter, but I couldn't get anything to work that didn't create a fisheye effect. Â Adobe Photoshop CS5 does great panaromas using the File > Automate > Photomerge tool. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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