I am a newbie, and I was hoping someone could help me. I have a Nikon 950 camera which I recently purchased to replace my 900s.

I also have a RAYNOX DVR-1000 Telephoto which does not appear to work to well. Everything is very dark when using the lense. Is this typical for this lense. I am thinking about buying a Nikon 2X and a wide angle, but I do not want the same results. The Raynox is basically useless to me.

Thanks

Rich

-- Rich McCabe (rrmccabe@uswest.net), October 22, 1999

Answers

How dark is "dark?" Every time you add a piece of glass in front of a camera, you dimm the image a little. The more glass, and the higher the magnification, the dimmer the image will be. This is a fact of optics in general.

You might try and compensate by adjusting your exposure time (longer), the white balance, the exposure compensation, and spot- metering on a darker part of the subjetc (thus forcing the camera to set the exposure time longer for proper exposure of the dark area).

-- Dale R Dankulich (daled01@mindspring.com), October 23, 1999.

Dale,

I think most of it was stupidity and I took 2 pictures. One with the Raynox and the other without. I was going to send you a sample of each so you could see how bad it was.

When you said something about the compensation, It dawned on me that in M-REC mode there is a setting for adding telephoto lense. I read that before and never put 2 and 2 together .

Unfortunatly, the telephoto setting disables the flash, so I guess low light conditions are out of the question.

Thanks for the tip. It was enough to jump start my.

Thanks

Rich

-- Rich McCabe (rrmccabe@uswest.net), October 23, 1999.

Glad I could help. Let me know how things turn out. I just bought the Raynox 1.5x telephoto and .65x wide angle set myself. I'm interested in comparing results (I have an Oly D-450 Zoom). Feel free to send some pictures.

-- Dale R Dankulich (daled01@mindspring.com), October 24, 1999.