I got a Canon Optura 30 camcorder, which has a non-standard thread size for aditional lenses. It’s a 34mm. Is it better to get an adapter ring to go from 34mm to 37mm? Or down to 31.5mm.
As far as fisheye lenses go, most of the ones I’ve looked at are .42x, which I have for my SLR film camera, but wasn’t impressed with the fisheye effect. It wasn’t dramatic enough for me.
Does anyone have any experience with fisheye lenses for camcorders? What did you get and where did you get it?
go with the bigger adapter, you are less likely to see it in the shot. try a .3 fisheye to get the effect you are probably trying for but good luck finding it!!!
A friend of mine is lending me a couple of lenses from his work for a couple of weeks. I have one 0.45 and one 0.3. The 0.45 is great I think but I would not call it a fisheye…I like how it keep the perspective reasonably realistic. The 0.3 is what they seem to call a Semi-Fisheye. It’s as far into fisheye-ness as I’d like to go. I love them both though. The Semi-Fisheye has a button on each side that you push in which moves two little clip things (on springs) until they fit the diameter of your lens, then the springs hold it in place. Very easy to attach, quite solid, very handy.
I think I might buy a 0.45.
Andrew
Simple advice:
Don’t shoot in fisheye…it is gay and noobish.
Obie is right, shooting in fisheye is weak, overdrawn, and lame. Really, only amateur photographers use it. No matter how good your are the fisheye is always weak.
Surely you guys don’t feel the same way about standard wideangle lenses though right? Wideangle is great! I also am not all that keen on fisheye.
Andrew
No, I love wideangle. Keep it up.
Yeah, either way I need a wide angle lens because my camera is not very wide at all. It makes it hard to shoot anything in my small apartment.
I tried a cokin wide angle lens at work and if you zoomed in with it on, the picture got really hazy. anyone know of a wide lens that doesn’t have this problem? (and wont make me poor)
sorry to bring this thread back up, but i didnt want to bother and make a whole new thread. I was wondering where you can you buy an inexpensive fisheye lense (i’m looking into .3x semi-fisheye) in the 30-100 dollar range (?)
any help? Andrew maybe?
thanks.
Look on Ebay, there are lots of them there.
Unless your name is Dan…
Mine was no longer being used at a friend’s work…sorry I can’t help. I would recommend you look into 0.4 or so instead of 0.3 though. My 0.3 semi-fisheye is nice and it’s not completely fisheye so it doesn’t have the black curvy bits framing the shot on the edges, but it’s a little too much for me. It also makes the video picture lose quality at the edges because it’s so distorted. Don’t ask me how that makes any sense at all because I couldn’t tell you, but it happens with mine. I think something like 0.45 would be ideal for me. Something you can watch a whole long video in without going dizzy. Good luck.
Andrew