Telephoto lens for HDR-FX1

[timddavies999]

I have an fx1 which i use for making surf films, the optical zoom is not enough for me so I got advised on the previous website to get a raynox 2020 lens which i'm really not happy with, it reduces the quality a great deal, loses the wide angle and leaves large circles around the edges of the shots which i have to crop in to remove in the edit suite which also reduces the quality. can anyone advise a good quality zoom lens I can get??

[acgold7]

You will always have this vignetting problem to some degree when you add another lens in front of your stock lens. That's why these lenses are called "partial Zoom-through." You'll always see those corners at the wide end of the zoom range.

That being said, the Schneider lenses have gotten good reviews, although they are pricey. The only other solution is to move over to the FX7, which has about double the tele reach of the FX1.