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Review on Enhance Your Photography with Olympus WCON-P01 Wide Angle Converter for Olympus 14-42mm MFT Lens by Ashutosh Takumatla

Revainrating 5 out of 5

A useful converter detailed below

This deserves a 5 star rating. Actually I will change from 4 to 5 before posting this. I used this converter extensively on a 10 week trip to Southeast Asia. I took at least as many photos with this Olympus 14-42II-R lens as without it. I don't see any significant difference in quality with or without the converter. Since I take a lot of photos of buildings and interiors, this helped me a lot as I took more wide angle JPEG photos. I had no problem installing or uninstalling this converter. I noticed an unexpected thing in my camera setup that is not directly related to this converter. My camera body is the Olympus Pen Lite E-PL6. I've found that my RAW photos, both with and without a converter, have a much larger field of view than my JPEG photos. The unconverted field of view was actually much wider than the wide-angle JPEG with the converter. With the converter, my field of view in RAW format has become even wider. This surprised me, but this discovery led me to using the converter to get fields of view in RAW that were really good for many of the situations I was in. The field of view in RAW was larger than in the viewfinder - JPEG photos corresponded to the view in the viewfinder, with or without a converter. This meant I had to guess how much I could shoot in RAW since the viewfinder gave me no clue. This may be an anomaly of the Olympus stylus I own, but it can be common with Olympus cameras.

Pros
  • Focal length: 11mm (Micro Four Thirds) / 20.8mm (35mm format)
Cons
  • Definitely a bad product