I own a Fujifilm Finepix S5000 camera. I recently purchased a wide angle lens online. It said it would work with my camera. It fits and everything works right with it, except that when it is zoomed out, there are black shadows on the four corners. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be like that or not... but I think maybe the lens is might not be the right size and the edge of the lens is causing a shadow effect in the corners of the pic. I've never dealt with wide angle lenses so could someone please help me out here?
2006-07-07 15:45:39 · 5 answers · asked by Daryl Zero 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cameras
This is most likely vignetting. If so, it is inherent to the quality and design of your add-on wide angle lens. Your Fuji didn't do it before because of better quality in the lens Fuji used.
Some of the lenses sold online have a lower price becaause they just don't have the best optical performance.
Usually this appears only at high telephoto zoom, so the lens might be fine for your real wide angle shots. Just take the wide angle add-on off, except when you really need it.
I have read some pro tutorials which argued that it is counter productive to use high telephoto with a wide angle on top. Really you just reduce the telephoto when you do that.
You bought the lens to get more wide-angle, not to reduce telephoto. So it might be just fine if you only use it for that purpose.
I am thinking of getting one too!
Good Luck!
2006-07-08 01:58:47 · answer #1 · answered by fredshelp 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is vignetting. I suspect this happens when you are using the flash. This may be because the coverage of the flash is not as wide as your lens. For example, your flash coverage may go as wide as, say 24mm (in a 35mm world). It means that light from the flash covers a field that is captured by a 24mm lens. A wider lens would capture areas that the flash does not cover.
Does this make sense?
2006-07-09 11:27:50 · answer #2 · answered by danman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The lens is fine it's probably just low grade so it is causing that to happen. If you zoom in a little the corners will go away and the picture will be normal.
2006-07-07 15:51:20 · answer #3 · answered by AnnaSo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Also, you might have the wrong size lens shade on.
(it sticks out too far from the front of the lens)
Remove the one you have and see if you still get the shadows.
2006-07-07 17:24:56 · answer #4 · answered by GeneL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is called vignetting and sometimes can be corrected by stopping down the aperture. (if you've already tries removing filters, lens shade, etc)
2006-07-07 19:29:12 · answer #5 · answered by Kammy B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋