Product Description
The DVR-5000 Super Wideangle Lens widens your angle of view 100%, including more area in your picture. And the lens provides wide, panoramic shots outdoors, and allows shooting in limited space indoors. The DVR-5000 Wideangle lens is made with a good optical quality for general use.
Customer Reviews:
OGUZ EREL - NORFOLK UK / RAYNOX DVR-5000 Video Objective 0.5 X.......2007-10-04
I bought DVR 5000 a few days ago.. My camcorder is Canon MV700 digital miniDV with 30.5mm diameter objective.. DVR 5000 is absolutely brillant! No blurring problem during zoom... Everything is pinsharp. Focusing very good...Colour has been changed slightly less than 1A skylight filter. So it is alright to me..I can't see any difference when I watch on TV.. Please use AF mode. If you use Manual Focusing, when you make tele zoom, your camcorder will be blur even without raynox DVR 5000..Make sure it is Auto Focus.Absolutely recommended..
Oguz Erel, Norfolk, UK
Very disappointing.......2004-07-05
At first I was excited to find this unit. A .5X at a reasonable price. Sight unseen, I purchased this unit. At first, I liked it quite a bit. The width was extreme enought that I could record people who didn't think it was even pointing at them, allowing much more candid shots. I also liked the rounded barrell distortion when it was zoomed out and the lens physically close to the subject. Then one day, at a family reunion, I zoomed in on the part of the family taking pictures and in my viewfinder, my lens appeared unclean. A long story short, I spent twenty minutes cleaning every component I was using, but, with absolutely no luck. Later that night i started trial and error and discovered that it was, in fact, the design of the lens. When zooming on, the Raynox blurs all except for a vertically-oriented oval in the center of the shot. Needless to say, I returned this item. It's perfomance was satisfactory when not using the zoom, but it blurred quickly even when just zooming in a small amount.
Here is more on my exchange with Raynox regarding this product and another one of their lenses:
I have included below the transcript from a series of e-mails between Raynox and myself. This is unedited, exactly as the exchange went. Needless to say, I am very unhappy with their product and their customer service, and I will never buy another one of their items. I offer my experience only to help others avoid a waste of money. Read my story and make up your own mind. But, at the very least, take careful consideration before buying one of their products. The one positive thing I will say about Raynox is that they DID respond to me in a very timely fashion, their first response was within 45 minutes of my e-mail. I just wish the content of the response would have been as pleasing as it's speed.
Me:
Within the past year, I have purchased two Raynox lenses for my Sony Mini-DV camcorder. I purchased the DVR-3000, for $120.45, and the DVR-5000, for $49.95. To say that I have been disappointed with these
products is an understatement. With the DVR-5000, the wide-angle lens, when I was zoomed-out completely, there was severe vignetting, and when zoomed in, the only clear part of the image was the very center.
Everything else was distorted and fuzzy. I put the DVR-5000 in my closet and purchased a competitor's lens, as I was already out of my 30 days since my purchase. Unfortunately, I did not need the DVR-3000
for several months. This past weekend, I used it at the San Diego Chargers football game to take 73 digital stills. These images looked fine on my LCD screen, but when I got home and downloaded them to my computer, I found the exact same problem that I had had with the other lens. But, this is a telephoto, I'm SUPPOSED to be able to zoom in. The images were all fuzzy and distorted, except for the very center.
These images are absolutely useless to me and have proven that I wasted almost $200 on Raynox product. Now, I have to purchase a competitor's lens, for a lot more money, and I am unable to do that at this
time. Therefore, not only am I out of my original investment, but I am losing business, as I am a professional videographer. I wanted to give Raynox an opportunity to correct this. Please have someone contact me by e- mail or phone.
Raynox:
I do not know what camera model you used but DVR-5000 is a standard quality wide-angle lens and like every conversion there is no " Perfect matching" for some camera models. The DVR-5000 works perfect.
I would suggest HD-5000PRO for present mini-DV camcorders. The DVR-3000 is not designed for digital stills and the quality is up to standard TV screen resolution.
Me:
I am currently using the Sony DCR-PC330. Now, my bigger complaint is with the DVR-3000. What am I supposed to do if my video is also fuzzy? It's not just the digital stills, and it's not a resolution problem. It's that the entire image is fuzzy and also has some color distortion.
Raynox:
Again, there are no "Perfect Matching" for some camera models.
Me:
Ok, I am just trying to understand this. The lens fits physically perfectly to my camera, without an adapter. What do you mean by "perfect matching" and how can I tell if that's the problem?
Raynox:
The DVR-3000 is long discontinued . The camcorder you are using is over 3 megapixels and not recommended to use such a lens .
Me:
Well, I can't say that I am exactly happy with Raynox's answer. You have basically said that the lens is not of a high enough quality to operate with my resolution, and we're only talking 3 megapixel here. I would still have to say that I will never buy another Raynox product. The fact remains that I now have to spend $250 on another lens and basically throw away the $120 Raynox lens I have already purchased.
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