telephoto

I just got this lens and used it with my Kodak DX4530. It took very good photos on the Auto setting. Got a few nice wildlife pictures. It's important to follow the instructions in the manual: (1) to use the optical zoom so that the picture fills the entire view and (2) to use the LCD screen. The blocking of the view finder with the accessory lenses is not unique to Kodak. It happens with other point-and-shoot cameras because of their design. If you want to do more with your point-and-shoot camera, this is a good way to go.

I just received my lens, and I read the instructions. You have to use your zoom button and zoom all the way out in order to get a full picture. This is the first thing noted in the instructions. If you don't, you will, as the other review said, get a picture that only fills the center of the view--the rest will be black. It definitely pays to read the instructions. This is actually a good tool--I took a few pictures of the same shot with and without, and the extra zoom is significant.

Cut-off corners should NEVER be a problem with a lens accessory marketed by Kodak for its own cameras. Auxiliary lenses are available from other makers including Sunpak. Perhaps they will show less vignetting or none at all. In any case, blocking part of the viewfinder is inevitable, as is some image softening with any accessory lens - even the superb Schneider-Kreuznach optics once made for the classic little Kodak Retina IIIC of the 1950s.