[Don Schaeffer]

I received my lens today. I purchased it through Amazon.com at a cost of $20 (of course it ended up costing me $60 with shipping and cross-border fees). The lens feels very good, solid. There is a nice grip to it. It comes with a leather-like lens case and front and rear lens caps. On my Kodak Z740 (38 mm equiv-wide angle end), the lens produces an image like a 17 mm lens. As far as I can tell the image is adequately sharp. There is little light loss. There is slight vignetting in the upper corners visible in some shots.

Trial photos follow. Of course I did some post processing--couldn't resist it.