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PANAGOR AUTO MACRO CONVERTER | | | | Reviews | Views | Date of last review | | 6 | 40,884 | Sat October 15, 2022 | |  | | Recommended By | Average Price | Average User Rating | | 100% of reviewers | $35.50 | 8.17 | | | | 
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| Author: | | New Member Registered: November, 2013 Posts: 14 | | Review Date: October 15, 2022 | Recommended | Price: $30.00
| Rating: 8 |
| Pros: | good sharpness | | Cons: | some CAs | |
+ Good , but not perfect correction. Mine has a 4/3 optical design.
O some CAs
The PK MC 7 KENKO macro converter 7/5 is still better.
The weaknesses of the lens are doubbled,
My PANAGOR macro converter has been completed by an additional biconvex achromatic rear lens element of a 8x30 binocular, integrated into a 12mm macro tube M42.
This tuned 6/4 construction allows sharper macro shootings.
Try it  | | | | | | | New Member Registered: June, 2017 Posts: 15 | | Review Date: February 11, 2022 | Recommended | Price: $13.00
| Rating: 7 |
| Pros: | Mine was called an "Elicar" | | Cons: | | |
Mine was called an "Elicar" brand, but looks identical. Performance is as good as reported.
This makes a fast 50mm lens into a great close up "tele" lens - with many advantages - for example the on-camera flash is less likley to be shaded by a lens too close to the subject. This works well for insects, flowers etc.
Because you are essentially magnifying the central part of the image, it cuts out the lens edges where lower quality is concentrated. However you loose several stops of illumination.
Check out some images at - https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/Panagor%20auto%20macro%20converter/
As with all close up magnified images - you either need a rigid tripod or a fast shutter speed and/or flash to reduce movement.
Mine was very cheap secondgand and is lightweight enough to go in the camera bag on "Nature Walk" days out. I use it less since I got a Vivitar 55mm F2.8 macro lens, which goes 1:1 but extends a long way out as you reach there!!!
| | | | | New Member Registered: November, 2016 Posts: 11 | | Review Date: March 23, 2017 | Recommended | Price: $35.00
| Rating: 9 |
| Pros: | sharp, easy to use, good range of magnification | | Cons: | none really | |
Got one m42 on the bay for 30€ shipped in very good condition with the original caps and the box.
Honestly a good performer. I don't own a dedicated macro lens yet, but with this little toy i did get some decent results.
I started using it with a takumar 55 f1.8, in this configuration gives nice result but the focus distance at high magnification is not much.
https://flic.kr/p/RzcMtu
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Then I tried with a mir 1b and I had mixed results, sometimes with strange bokeh, and very narrow focus distance.
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I tried also with a 21mm extension tube before it and a takumar 135mm f2.5 second version, with this configuration the focus distance varies from about 1m to about 40cm.
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I believe that with the right sharp lens in front of it, the results are definitely satisfactory for the cost.
If you find a cheap one get it. It is a nice toy.
| | | | | Pentaxian Registered: April, 2011 Location: Lost in translation ... Posts: 18,076 | | Review Date: June 22, 2013 | Recommended | Price: $45.00
| Rating: 8 |
| Pros: | Build, sharp enough | | Cons: | Mine is a bit stiff ... | |
Bonjour,
Picked this item up at a swap meet a few years ago and it's not bad ... a lot of fun with a fast fifty lens.
I have not used it in a while due my later purchase of true macro lens ... first a Tamron 90/2.8 and now a Pentax D FA 100/2.8 Macro WR. I should get it out again this summer ...
I will try to post a sample image later ... Salut, J | | | | | | | Senior Member Registered: June, 2013 Posts: 171 | | Review Date: June 21, 2013 | Recommended | Price: $15.00
| Rating: 8 |
| Pros: | Well made sharp | | Cons: | needs covers | |
It's pretty smart and seems to work with all my lenses with varying close focus points. I've only just got it but on an 80-210 I focused on a fly filling the lens at 2 meters and gone to contact with my monitor screen looking at the individual pixels with an 18-55da
Focus is a bit of a game since you have now two focus rings roughly focus with the main lens and then fine tune to get perfect sharpness with the Panagor.
I bought this with the intention of using it to scan negatives amongst other things
I made a simple holder with a clip photo frame a bit of negative envelope as a diffuser and notebook monitor on a bright white background. its capable of fitting the entire 35mm frame in a shot while resting on the glass. On a k200D body. I get around 4x the pixels that I would have from a photo CD with varying techniques you can stitch together higher resolution pictures using multiple shots.
Works well on my K200D with M A and (DA Lenses with limitations)
20th july 2017 (now using it on a k5 as well).
I took this apart for cleaning today and really over did the dismantling theres 3 black screws holding the helicoid central under the rubber a bolt which drives the helicoid need to take that off and the 3 screws to take out the helicoid. and one screw to take the lens group out the helicoid, but why bother
There are 2 groups of 2 lenses really at the rear is a slotted ring a vernier caliper works to undo this
after that its
rear element
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next element
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front element.
The rear element may pop out easily but if you push on the front element you can move the stack backwards and pop out each element till all four are out. just take note which way they face or you will have a nightmare getting it working again. reassembly is the reverse make sure each element is as far forward as it can go. It takes some firm pressing to get them fully home. I just cleaned with ipa and got rid of most of the dust and maybe fungus that was dulling the light. pretty easy to service as long as you pay attention to the order and direction the lenses want to be in.
| | | | | Veteran Member Registered: January, 2011 Location: Minahasa, North Celebes (Sulawesi) Posts: 586
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| | Review Date: July 23, 2011 | Recommended | Price: $75.00
| Rating: 9 |
| Pros: | A great alternative to more expensive macro lens. Sharpness is exellent. | | Cons: | Prices are climbing | |
Bought after returning the defected SMC-M 50mm F/4 back to the seller, and have been using this paired with just about any manual lens I have, but often with SMC 50mm and 70-210 Adaptall. Using this with wide lenses is possible, but only if you are comfortable with focusing as close as 5mm from object. Images are sharp with good color rendering. No infinity focus with this one, but hey, it's a macro gear 
Shots coupled with SMC A 50mm F2 lens:
My untrained eyes seems to find this converter to be sharper than the Vivitar Tele-Macro Converter I also had. Probably because it focuses as a macro rather than trying to combine both function.
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