 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rose here bringing another video today From my vacation in well fleet in Cape Cod And I picked up another interesting aftermarket accessory for the Canon XA40 Pro camcorder and that is the first aftermarket lens. I picked up for this. It's a 58 Millimetre wide-angle lens from near Neewer. I hope I'm pronouncing that right I mentioned before that just because your camcorder is fixed lens like the XA40 and indeed all the other variants in the Canon XA series It doesn't mean that there aren't things you can do with the lens So you can buy lens filters I mentioned before a few of those and the key thing to know is the lens diameter of your camcorder for the XA40 It's 58 millimetre. So you don't even need to look for, you know, if you're searching on amazon Canon XA40 Wide-angle lens. You can just look for 58 millimetre wide-angle lens and it should pretty much work So this piece of gear from near is actually kind of a two-in-one product Comes with guards on the front and the lens guard or a cap I guess is a better word on the rear And this has a macro component So you can actually screw it off if you just want to use the macro component The macro of course makes things look closer than they are. So that's the macro lens It's about this this wide, but I'm going to be just demonstrating today how it looks for the wide angle lens So, you know, if you're doing vlogging work like I'm doing at the moment I have my camcorder positioned about 60 centimeters in front of me here And it's uh, you know, I'm sitting in the ground level of an apartment But if we can widen out this view a little bit, you might get it might be a more interesting shot With more detail behind me. So with that with that out of the way I'm going to go ahead now and screw this on to the frame and you're going to see now the same shot With this white angle lens Okay, so I've gone ahead now and screwed on the 58 millimeter wide angle from near And because I have the monitor facing towards me as I record this video I can already see the difference bear in mind. I didn't change anything about the shot. I didn't move the tripod I didn't even like change the way I'm standing and if I recall it correctly The my hair was just cropping at the top there and I think the wide angle shot for vlogging actually looks really interesting You can see a bit more detail behind me there the painting on the wall on that side And uh, I'm not just kind of crowding up into the frame. So uh, this cost about 40 dollars on amazon.com The other aftermarket lens edition that I have been looking at and I might pick up as well Is a telephoto lens that they make two times telephoto lenses are 2.2 Just resuming up a bit. Um, although I think that given that the between the optical zoom On the digital zoom the camcorder has a lot going for the ready So it might be might be one I'll actually skip out on uh, but this is an example of an aftermarket lens For the x-ray 40 again, you don't need to look specifically for the x-ray 40 Just punch in 58 millimeter lens for uh into amazon or b and h or whatever And you'll find a bunch of filters and lens add-ons and they can do interesting things I make your camcorder more versatile. Hope this video is interesting Thank you for watching. If you'd like to get more videos for me, please feel free to subscribe to this youtube channel and have a great day