No, it's not. The thick part with the prism goes on the viewing lens, as shown in the picture, red dot up. The close-up lens on the taking lens has a bayonet mount so you can use a filter.
Yes.. that what I mean. Wrong part of the filter on the viewing /taking lens. Is the orientation correct? If it is.. boy do I feel dumb. I've been shooting mine with it wrong and might explain why those pics haven't been as sharp.
The thick part goes on the viewing lens. It has a prism in it that compensages for parallax. While it appears to bee a fairly decent prism it isnot likely to be a good photographic lens element. There should be a red dot on the thick part to indicate "up" (top of camera)
Thanks for clarifying this. Next time when I use it on something I'll make sure that correct. having it incorrect.. could it cause the images to less sharp?
I would assume that some of your sharpness issue may be due to that. But, honestly, I have never been happy with sharpness of using almost any close-up "filter" so who knows for sure.
Ditto. The closeup lenses are very sharp. The thicker of the two lenses in the set goes on the viewing lens. There is a prism in the viewing lens that corrects for parallax.