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I received today the parcel I ordered 3 weeks ago, coming via air mail from Hong-Kong. My brand new macro/wide angle lens was bought at USB Fever online store for a very low price. Living in Europe (in France, exactly), I paid in Euros wich is a very good deal when prices are fixed in dollars

One of the problem of numeric image cameras is that, with a same focal length, image size is smaller than with film cameras (see explainations here). And specifically on HD flip devices, captured scene is croped top and bottom to obtain a 16:9 aspect ratio. This makes sometimes hard to capture a near scene. When you know that microphone is not very efficient on long distance and that there is no microphone input, the problem becomes crucial.

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