This Monday afternoon, I got a pleasant surprise in my mailbox. There was a USPS box sticking out and it just had to be the adapters I ordered last Friday:



Sweet!

Excellent shipping and delivery. I ordered them Friday afternoon and it got here Monday afternoon. Really, if you knock off no delivery Sunday, It took about a day!



I opened the sturdy box carefully and layed out all my cool products:



I examined each one carefully, and found nothing amiss with any. So, I started to assemble the adapters for the S3. I eagerly placed one on the S3 and took a shot. The adapters are solid metal and a nice black. As the camera its self is gun metal grey, it doesn't exactly match, but it's fine.



Here, as shown above, I was puzzled on why there is a ring that comes off the adapter. I screwed it back on the front of the adapter and proceeded to attach the UV filter on top of that. You can readily see that the addition of the 58mm adapter causes a semi-circle of shadow near the bottom of the shot when used with the flash. This was to be expected and not a bother.



I attached the rubber hood and I like what I see. It isn't too big and folds down. I should have gotten TWO...one for each adapter! Damn!...:angry: The Lens Cap keeper was simple and has a plastic end to it that hooks around the neck strap eyelets on the camera. I felt that this was too far for the string length and I attached it to the "buckle" on the neck strap itself. Works fine. (What I may do with the cap is to place a velco dot on top of the lens keeper button and "stick" it somewhere on the S3 or neck strap when shooting.)



The camera now looks "Finished". It stands proud with extended adapter and hood, ready to take on any overly priced DSLR.



I wondered if I could easily snap on the end cap while keeping the hood on. At first I fumbled to squeeze the tabs and set it in place, but with practice one just needs to angle it in and just "snap" it in securely.

There is no vignetting with filters or hood combinations at all in any and all zoom mm's.



Here it is ready for sleep, until it's beckoned to capture life's moments.

Now the negative side:

I read prior about some jiggling of non-Canon adapters while attached to the S3. One had a slight jiggle and would make a slight noise if manipulated. About the same movement as the cosmetic ring covering the bayonet base on the camera. The other adapter was quite loose. Much more so than the first. I read where just a bit of clear tape tightens everything up, and so I went to work. I put clear postal grade tape on the three tangs on the rear of the adapters that snap onto the bayonet base, and now both are very tight and secure. No jiggling or movement at all.

I'm not all that disappointed with the potential jiggling of the $12.00 adapters and can live with the initial looseness. The polarizer adjustment ring is just slightly loose on itself, but nothing to get excited about. It fits tightly onto the S3 fine. No problem at all with the UV filter.

Overall, I am quite pleased on the order from camera filters.com and finally feel "complete"!...:pleased: More on it's performance when I have a good opportunity to put all my goodies to use.

Now, this afternoon I ordered the Slave Flash trigger to use my old Sunpack multi-element bounce head Flash with it's bracket.

More on that when it arrives.

Spur was right!

Ain't the S3 quite fun!...:sidesmile1:

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Addendum:

I just received this email from the USPS on my shipment:

Track & Confirm e-mail update information provided by the U.S. Postal Service.

Label Number: 0304 1070 0001 ---- ----

Service Type: DELIVERY CONFIRMATION

Shipment Activity Location Date & Time
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Delivered CHICAGO IL 60608
01/29/07 12:46pm

Arrival at Unit CHICAGO IL 60608
01/29/07 7:41am

Acceptance OKLAHOMA CITY OK 73162
01/26/07 2:54pm


Reminder: Track & Confirm by email

Date of email request: 01/29/07

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How we got along without the internet...I'll never know.

Leo,

I went with the camerafilters adapter because it was cheaper and I got two. With just a little tape on the tabs, they fit just fine.

I have been having the greatest time with the S3, and working on adapting it to telescopes. I'm about to obtain a T-ring and eyepiece adapter, as I have had good results from using a friends mount. (Results found in the astrophotography thread).

I am looking at getting the 2x/3x teleconverter as well...and maybe even the wide angle one as well.

Astronomy and photography is a bottomless pit of financial desires.

Thanks for your note, and share some experiences here.

Ed,

I have been very satisfied with not only the Canon Powershot S3, but all the additional accessories I have obtained for it. The lens adapters are great and one holds an eyepiece adapter that screws on without having to take off the rubber lens shield and easily take thru-the-scope- shots.

Let us know on your experience with the new accessories for your camera.

Thanks for your note.