Posted by Smarty on 11/02/07 02:25

Martin,

Your comment and description are much appreciated and very likely to be true
for this HV-20, which suffers from too much plastic and a non-rugged case. I
will definitely take your advice. Thank you for the suggestion.

Smarty


"Martin Heffels" <goofie@flikken.net> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:42:01 GMT, "Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote:
>
>>The wide angle converter is a nice option, and I actually keep it on the
>>camera virtually all of the time
>
> Depending on how big a piece of glass it is, I would recommend to take it
> off. The front-ring of my TRV900 has snapped off due to the weight of the
> WA-adapter. The ring is plastic, and held with 3 tiny-screws, so the wear
> of a heavy front-element, made the plastic holes for the screws rip, and
> one day I took the camera out of my bag, and the WA-adapter stayed in
> there, which I found a bit strange ;-)
>
> cheers
>
> -martin-
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