fish eye lenses

I'm no expert on the matter but I'm afraid I think you have to spend
alot more on a video camera than that before you get one where you can
swap lenses over. It has a lens built in to the end, something like
'this' (http://tinyurl.com/kxkmu) has removable lenses so a fish-eye
can be fitted. I hope you find something that will work within your
budget but you might well have to look more at the semi-professional
rather than home user equipment.

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no you can screw other lenses onto this one.

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max_pfeifer said:

Hey everyone,

I am about to buy this video camera:
http://tinyurl.com/nnep5
and i am looking at getting a fish eye lense for it. does anyone know
anything about these lenses because i dont 🙂

what should i look for in terms of brands/styles/types etc?

what will fit on this camera?

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Max

If you don't know anything about fish-eye lenses, how do you know that
you need one?
I suspect in any case that you cannot add/change the lens on this
camera. Filters probably.

Nao

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I think a fish eye is a good idea. I think I've only seen one uni vid
that has used a fish eye. They give the video a nice look and they also
make gaps or drops look bigger and therefore more impressive.
Go for it mate, I think it would be worth your money.

Jas

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Contrary to popular belief you can get add on lenses for this camera:

eg: http://tinyurl.com/yk3p2t

Don't expect the cheap ones to be great quality but they should give
the desired effect.

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There are A LOT of wide angle and telephoto lenses that thread into the
filter threads of video cameras. In that case, you will need a 43mm
lens. Not many of those around. There are some on ebay. Or you could
use a 52mm lens and use a stepping ring.

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Sounds like you guys are confusing fisheye with wide angle. Technically,
a full-on fisheye is supposed to give you a 180 degree field of vision.
That's very extreme, and something you would only want for very rare
instances. Sounds like what you want is a wide angle converter, to take
the video camera's widest angle and make it wider.

I bought one of these with the video camera I bought for my wife's
company in 1999. I brought that camera to Unicon X in China and had
lots of fun with that wide angle attachment. I remember putting the
camera up really close to some interesting foods in a buffet that was
served to us as part of a bus tour. Super-closeup on a pile of
crayfish-looking things!

It was a Sony camera, which we bought at Circuit City. The guy added in
the lens attachment for about $20 if I remember correctly, so it was
pretty cheap. Don't remember if it was Sony branded (probably not).
Expect to get what you pay for.

If you go too extremely wide, you'll have a hard time getting anything
to not look too far away, unless it's almost touching the lens. If
they're cheap, you might want to try a couple of different ones,
depending on the effect you're looking for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisheye_lens

Now a unicycle connection, to keep this thread belonging in the
unicycle section. The first commercially available fisheye lenses for
35mm cameras were introduced by Nikon in the 1960s. The guy who brought
these over to the United States was the father of Marc Held, one of the
old members of the Long Island Unicyclists. Marc's father later went on
to buy the Omega company (makers of photographic enlargers for print
making), and Marc went to work for that company. Don't know if he ever
gets on a unicycle anymore; he now lives in Maryland and has a wife and
kids.

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Evan Byrne said:

There are A LOT of wide angle and telephoto lenses that thread into the
filter threads of video cameras. In that case, you will need a 43mm
lens. Not many of those around. There are some on ebay. Or you could
use a 52mm lens and use a stepping ring.

The link states the filter size to be 37mm, which is what it looks like
in the picture.

'This ' (http://tinyurl.com/um7ab)ebay item would appear to be what you
are looking for.

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Loosemoose said:

The link states the filter size to be 37mm, which is what it looks like
in the picture.

'This ' (http://tinyurl.com/um7ab)ebay item would appear to be what you
are looking for.

Loose

Whoops, i just made that assumption because most of the Pv-gsXXX
cameras have a 43mm thread size. I have the pv-gs500 and it takes 43mm

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For about five bucks🙂 you can get one of those door peephole thingys to
put on the end of your lens. I just read about that in PopSci and they
say that the peephole things have a 160 degree or wider angle. they
come in lots of different sizes so it should be easy to find a good
size.

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Like 'this' (http://tinyurl.com/yzsvao)?

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Yup.

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