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- EverybodyPanic, on 07/10/2009, -1/+43When people are asking you why your photos suck so much, tell them you used a $16 fisheye lens you built yourself. Then show them your sailor hat you made out of newspaper.
- madcaow, on 07/10/2009, -0/+15if you cant do it with ductape it cant be done
- h3110, on 07/10/2009, -3/+18Buried for blog spam. Direct link to source:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-fish ... - dtele, on 07/10/2009, -1/+14Sorry - that's just rubbish - This is NOT a fisheye.
A 'fisheye' or 'sky' lense covers 8mm to 10mm focal length for the circular image... thats about 180 degree field of view.
It also looks like about 90 percent of the image data has been wasted.
You can buy a decent adapter for a hundred bucks if you cannot afford a pro lens. - Ge0graphicus, on 07/10/2009, -4/+15that duct tape looks nasty on the lens...wouldnt wonna do that with my equipment
- 0260, on 07/10/2009, -1/+12keeping your $1000 camera on automatic and shooting everything with the flash on makes you look ridiculous. knowing optics and how to make things is cool
- ronindigg, on 07/10/2009, -3/+13The result looks like crap, either buy a real lense or use photoshop
- h3110, on 07/10/2009, -0/+8Here's some other ways to defend your photos:
- For exposure mistakes, say it's low key or high key
- Someone doesn't understand your photo? Say it's abstract
- Overprocessed? Artistically retouched or emotional
Or if your photo suck, just Photoshop a lomo photo effect. There's a popular one called Fashion Lomo. If that doesn't work, then make it grungy. Add ink splatters, burnt paper texture, and high contrast. - Malik112099, on 07/10/2009, -8/+15Why would you buy a $1K+ camera and then duct tape ***** to it? It has a built in fisheye effect and there is also a fisheye lense you can buy (Fisheye-NIKKOR 10.5mm f/2.8G). If you can afford a D90, you can afford a fisheye lense.
- inactive, on 07/10/2009, -3/+9oh idk
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?rlz=1C1GGLS ... - DeathJux, on 07/10/2009, -0/+5Man, you can buy fisheye lenses that screw into the threads on the end of the lens for $100-$200 that will do 100x as good of a job for ~10x the price, but without the crippling humiliation.
Raynox makes a number of different macro and wide-angle adapters like this, and they work quite well, for cheap. - Piha, on 07/10/2009, -2/+7The materials list missed a couple of additional requirements. A Camera lens you don't mind taping crap all over, and An ego strong enough to weather the comments of any curious but cruel criticsts.
- tech1987, on 07/10/2009, -1/+6To take good pics?
- HareBall, on 07/10/2009, -1/+6Gaff tape is black. What is in that picture is duct tape.
- daqq, on 07/10/2009, -1/+5@StopBoringMe
All DSLR lenses are expensive. So are the cameras. If you think a $17 "lens" is going to give you anything marginally better than a cheap point and shoot, you're delirious. - adunston, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4Hasselblad is more like a Bentley; take a look at the H3D2 for around $26K. Just because you can afford the camera doesn't mean you can afford a fisheye. As a professional photographer I have multiple $4K+ cameras, however it's pretty hard for me to justify dropping a grand on a lens that would realistically be used a half dozen times per year.
- pathouston22, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4Yeah, gaff tape is several colors. However I did take a closer look at the pic, and it does look like duct tape.
- Philbert, on 07/10/2009, -1/+5You could probably just get a UV filter and find a way to attach this to that, that was you get nothing sticky on your lens and it's easily detachable.
- Dipsomaniac, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3"If you can afford a D90, you can afford a fisheye lense."
That doesn't make any sense at all. It's like saying "If you can afford to buy a house, you can afford to buy a house and a cottage". - inactive, on 07/10/2009, -3/+6A lot of people can't justify spending $650 on a speciality lens they might use a dozen times a year.
- UKsHaDoW, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2You have more in the view with fish eye. You can't make that stuff apear in photoshop.
- TruckStuff, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Most of what's posted on sites popular on Digg (Engadget, Giz, HuffPo, etc.) is stolen from some other source.
- ilmickeyli, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Gaff tape comes in other colors than just black....
- cornstarch5, on 07/10/2009, -2/+4In response to some of the above comments:
It's possible to do this with just about any SLR. It just so happens that the writer used a D90.
It's not necessary to tape anything to the camera body or the lens--just use a spare hood to set it up.
I don't see this as a being a professional mod, just as something fun to do.
Why is this a problem? - cornstarch5, on 07/10/2009, -1/+2Note: I'm not saying that this is an acceptable replacement for a quality fisheye lens.
- rodrigo74, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1The resulting photo looks like crap, it doesn't make sense to pay so much for premium optics and then strap some ***** glass in front of it all.
- h3110, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1Also depends on your lens. If your lens filter thread is huge or if it's wide angle, then the circle will be too small.
- Philbert, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1What does this have to do with nikon? It would work just as well for my Digital Rebel.
- suprchunk, on 07/10/2009, -1/+2Thank you. Best comment in this thread.
- Tr0yNT, on 07/10/2009, -1/+2I'm not an expert, but wouldn't it be easier to create the fisheye efx in photoshop?
- ZeroVector, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1Gizmoron!
- TabDelineated, on 07/10/2009, -1/+2My forays into open heart surgery beg to differ...
- missinglink, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1Well, $16 plus $500-$1500 for a decent lens to modify. Here's a pretty awesome video about how a real lens is crafted (and it's not duct tape): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7_wL0ZZi6k
- Gamer0808, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1Or you could spend $150.00 or less and buy my extra MC Zenitar-M f/2.8, 16mm Russian Fisheye lens:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem& ...
and not look like a complete tool :-)
Thing works amazing for doing 360 degree Pano images! - 0260, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1I never spent more than $120 bucks on a lens and that was on a f/1.4 prime from early 80s. It's not the tool, it's how you use it.
- stanski1, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1My thoughts exactly.
- pathouston22, on 07/10/2009, -1/+2Sorry, didn't actually expect an idiot to put duct tape on his expensive camera.
- stanski1, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1This has got to be the dumbest mod ever. Next thing you know they are going to give instructions on "how to install a lawnmower engine into you Ferrari"
- Jerky1312, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1If it weren't for that "blogspam," that guy's DIY instructable would most likely not get on the digg front page, however indirect the hits are, it helps it get more viewers.
- S1ngular1ty1, on 07/10/2009, -1/+2Title should read "How to: Make a Crappy Fisheye DSLR Lens for $16"
- crazzy88ss, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1It's a novelty DIY nerdy photo thing. Of course image quality will suck. Get over it...
He put it on his 18-105 VR kit lens. It's not like he put it on the 70-200 VR or other super high quality glass. - etx313, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1Ummm, no. Duct tape will never touch my t1i.
- darkzealot89, on 07/10/2009, -1/+1http://imagemacros.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/hur ...
- tr909, on 07/10/2009, -0/+0If all you want is the distortion part. But PS won't give you the focal length part.
- WiretapStudios, on 07/11/2009, -1/+1At least you will have a lot of dough left in your duct tape wallet at the end of the day...
- sheepsta, on 07/10/2009, -2/+2And it's impossible that some people actually have to save up over a year for a $1k+ camera huh?
- ShoeSh1ne, on 07/10/2009, -0/+0It's just the camera he used.
- ShoeSh1ne, on 07/10/2009, -2/+1Or, read the ***** article:
"It only needs a couple pieces of particle board, the aforementioned peephole lens, the spare lens shield that came with his camera, and of course some duct tape." - jsnchmpn, on 07/10/2009, -1/+0If you can't duct it..... ***** it
- pathouston22, on 07/10/2009, -3/+2It's called gaffer tape. It does not leave crap behind when you peel it off. Used all the time in the film and video production industry.
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