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shakur
4th of February 2005 (Fri), 18:41
I have purchased Professional 0.42x Super Wide Angle Lens.</FONT> Is this so called fisheye lenses? The person sold it to me told me that it is the fisheye lense, but i dont know how i can produce that effect....</U>
Monito
4th of February 2005 (Fri), 20:14
Welcome to CDPF, shakur.

It is hard to help without the manufacturer's name and model numbers for both the camera and the lens. Try googling them and posting a web page too. Also, posting a picture taken with it can help us understand the issues.
shakur
5th of February 2005 (Sat), 17:04
Thank your for your kind reply, I am new in photography and there are alot of things that I dont really understand. Anyhow, the effect I am trying to create looks like the following pictures.
http://images.channeladvisor.com/Sell/SSProfiles/20050712/Images/FISHEYEPHOTO_1.jpg
http://store1.yimg.com/I/iowacamera_1830_4656259

I have no idea about the brand of the lense I got, but I have a picture of it
http://store1.yimg.com/I/iowacamera_1830_4575687


I can I create effect like those pictures I have listed above with the lense I have? I suspect that I dont have the correct lense and the lense that I just bought are not a real "fish eye" lense. Can someone help me out here?
Jemmind
5th of February 2005 (Sat), 17:29
no the 3rd link is wrong, its same as second one, not a picture of the lens. cant help, maybe fix link.
Julie
KevC
5th of February 2005 (Sat), 17:42
If you have one of the smaller dSLRs, you'll have a 1.6X crop factor. With that, it's difficult to get an fishy look. That said, many people are happy with the "Russian Fishy". Zenitar 16mm/f2.8. Good luck!
shakur
5th of February 2005 (Sat), 17:53
I have fixed the link, now the 3rd link takes you to a picture of the lense that i have
Jon
7th of February 2005 (Mon), 14:09
The lens you posted is labelled "Super Wide Macro". From that I'd suspect it isn't a fisheye. If it was a fisheye, you wouldn't have any question after the first picture with it. If you mount it to your camera and the picture doesn't look like your examples (even like a square cut out of them), it isn't a fisheye. The exaggerated "barrel distortion" is a characteristic of fisheyes.