Canon converter lenses (1 Viewer)

I have Canon A570. It takes accessory lenses (wide, tele, or close-up) which mount on an tube adapter which bayonets to the camera body. In the Record menu there is a Converter selection; for the A570 the options are: (1) WC-DC52, (2) TC-DC52A, (3) 250D, (4) none. I sometimes use the wide lens, but can detect no difference when selecting either option #1 or #4.

Does anybody know what these options are supposed to do?

I realize this is not exactly a digiscoping question, although it does pertain to any Canon A-series, and the G6 and G7, cameras much discussed on this forum.

I've started a thread on this issue at the Canon Digital Photography Forum, here: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=477973. I hope somebody will be able to come up with a convincing explanation of what the Converter menu is programmed to accomplish.

Looks like I'm talking to myself, here.

I still do not know exactly what the Converter menu setting accomplishes, but I have a new clue. The User Guide implies that the menu selections are implemented when the camera is in IS mode. And in fact I now can see that when IS is selected the screen icon changes, depending on IS mode and Converter menu setting.

So it may be that the Converter setting is used only to affect the Image Stabilization controller.

ostling41 said:

So it may be that the Converter setting is used only to affect the Image Stabilization controller.

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I have a Canon A720is and recently bought an add-on 2x converter lens for it . I haven't been able to see any difference between setting the menu to TC or leaving it in its normal mode.

It might be a bit faster to come to a focus without TC mode selected but the weather has been rotten here so i haven't been out testing it as much as i'd have liked.

alison