Beer Good

I hear you can buy an aluminium tube that fits to this camera and allows you to attach other lenses? Has anyone bought one of these and are they any good / what lense fitments do they take?

Cheers
Steve

chiark

It gives you a 55mm thread that you can fit filters, lenses etc on.

I'd say it's essential! The most important thing is to get one and leave it on with either a UV filter or skylight as this protects the lens mechanism from dust and other crap.

Lens-wise, you can get a 2x zoom or .6x telephoto IIRC, both are around 80 quid, and in some cases they include the adaptor.

Cheers,
Nick.

ADP

Any ideas where online you can get these???

chiark

Jessops, amongst others. Pick up any What Digital Camera style thing and there's loads of ads for the lenses in there

springbok

DABs.COM have the Telephoto *1.5 Fuji original for £81, this includes the extender tube you were asking about. They also do a wide angle lense for the 602 for about the same price.
The tele-photo takes the 602 to about a 300mm lense equivalent, works well, most of my Rally shots HERE are taken with a S602 and a telephoto.

Beer Good

Thanks guys.

No chance of getting an 'adapter-adapter' that will allow me to use my old minolta lenses?

Cheers
Steve

Beer Good

Springbok

All these are taken with S602? They are really, really good, some stunning in fact! What settings do you use or do you do things 'on the fly'?

I am really only a beginner and up to landscape / close-up shots at the moment. That said I think a few would stand up to scrutiny. Email me if you wanna see some (thinks what am I saying, other peoples holiday photos... yeah right!).

Cheers
Steve