Anybody know anything about sakar lenses or more specificly a sakar 2x converter, meaning the quality of this companies equiment let me know what you think. should i use it with my canon rebel x and zoom lenses or are my pictures going to be of junk quality and should i sell it to a used equiment place and get a canon converter. (thanks to whom ever gave me the other info.) nick,

-- NICHOLAS ADAM KESSLER (nickkessler@hotmail.com), July 30, 1998

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Hi, I was found stand with Sakar products in Photo exhibition (Bratislava, Slovakia) in april 98. They offer the cheapest plastic photo equipment (binoculars,P&S, tripods, etc.). I`m not expert for quality but... (top quality binocular for 30USD...)

Rgrds

Ivan

-- Ivan Schalek (ivan21@mailexcite.com), July 31, 1998.

Nick

I don't know anything of the Sakar line, so I can't answer #1, except to say you usually get what you pay for.

You don't say what lens you have, so I'm going to guess you have a Canon 35-80 zoom (the standard on the Rebels). A Canon converter won't fit this lens. And if you put a 2x (or 1.4x for that matter) of ANY make on this zoom, you'll lose a lot of picture quality (what little there is).

Sell the lens instead.

If you have to have a zoom, you would be better off getting a Canon 28-105 and forgetting the converter. It'll cost you around $285, but you'll be better off than with a 2X converter.

-- George Chambers (gwill1000@brooksdata.net), July 31, 1998.