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$11 Super Wide Angle Digital Camera

instructables.com — Add a 160 degree wide angle lens to your existing digital camera for $11.

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  • blanski, on 10/12/2007, -5/+43Based on the title I thought it was a camera for $11 not a lens.
  • Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -8/+23And it's a fish-eye lens, and not a wide angle one.
  • NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Wow was that title ever misleading.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16To sound cool of course.

    I'm not attaching that to my $1500 camera...
  • BenDuffy, on 10/12/2007, -12/+21Bogus title = No Digg
  • SpacemanSpiff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10This looks like it would be entertaining for about 10 minutes.
  • crash331, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13As a photographer, this is super lame.
  • mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Why does everything have to be a "hack?"
  • phlll, on 10/12/2007, -12/+20Reported as inaccurate.
  • noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Why are all those saying "it's a fisheye lens not a wideangle lens" getting modded up? A fisheye lens *is* an extreme wideangle lens. Period.

    See here for more details:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisheye_lens

    The "fisheye" distortion around the edges is simply an extreme version of the wideangle distortion seen in moderate wideangle lenses (e.g. 28mm). If you keep going for wider and wider angles, you're eventually trying to transfer a 180-degree angle hemisphere of view onto a flat surface. Regardless of how you do that, you're going to end up with distortion somewhere. Hence the "fish eye" view with objects towards the edge looking thinner and closer together.
  • Aidenag, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9ITS A FISHEYE NOT A WIDE ANGLE!

    And WTF the guy who posted this garbage is #9 out of all diggs users....
  • mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8All Digg articles are copied from somewhere. Hack-A-Day copied it from aggregate.org. Who cares?
  • CasaDeQueso, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The title promises a piece of crap and the article delivers.
  • Starseed, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11Tisk tisk. While the idea for the lens in interesting, misleading title is not appreciated.
  • nbcaffeine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Animals... Close up... With a wide angle lens!
  • skyriser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5...wearing hats!
  • dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I doubt the myspace kids would know how to work that sort of thing. ;) Remember...they just take pictures in the mirror with the lense flare so bright it burns everyone's retinas into thinking they're attractive.

    http://www.myspaceisgay.com

    ^-- Just for ***** and giggles.
  • mathew_bug, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Fisheye IS a wideangle lens. Just a special type of wide.
  • Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5aggregate.org, probably.
  • mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5OMGKITTENSMEWMEWMEW
  • blanski, on 10/12/2007, -3/+610 minutes is a stretch, but even in that case. I dont like to pay a dollar per minute for entertainment.
  • Wyattx17, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wouldn't fit on my DSLR. Not the best of quality but pretty neat!
  • infinium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2busy busy busy... try back soon: 4.678 (-1)
  • crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7This was copied from Hack-A-Day

    http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000793073646/
  • rickytan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Where's my Benny Hill music?
  • Berkana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The spherical aberation on that thing is terrible. You can see the colors blurring. In the end, you get what you pay for.
  • Wyattx17, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You mean 350D XT.
  • crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ok, well, Hack-A-Day at least gives the source link to the original site, instead of re-writing it and claiming it as their own.
  • ledmatrix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3A peephole from a door as a wide angle lens? Utter non-sense.
  • sparty1969, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think Digg needs to make a change to front page articles similar to the Thumbs up - Thumbs down rating system for comments. If you read an article and it really sucks you should be able to UN-Digg it or De-Digg it in order to throw it off the front page.

    I wish I had that option right now.
  • spadin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That site is dumb. You have six pictures and an ad. What's the point?
  • RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This kind of thing is amusing when you glance at it for 2 seconds on Boing Boing but in actual practice probably gets old really fast.
  • noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2A fish-eye lense (sic) *is* an extreme wide-angle lens. The arrogance with which you (and several others) attack the original article for this "mistake" just makes you look more ignorant and foolish.

    Not knowing is fine, we all have to learn sometime. OTOH, parading your authority on something you clearly know nothing about is just laughable.
  • dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To do HDR's for 3D modeling, you have to have a 360* panorama of an image.. Making 5 or 10 seperate panoramas, then combining them in something like HDRShop is a b'tch.. Where as if you could simply take the HDR images at 180*+ angle, upwards, merge them in HDRShop, and use them for your relfection-maps in a 3D App.. THATS what it has to do with HDR's.. Same thing can be done with a fish-eye lens
    - Ben
  • noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You mean because of the decent-sized lens, or because cameras with such lenses tend to have IR-blocking filters built in?

    If it's the latter, I already mentioned that, but then it was meant to be a cheap and fun trick for use with cheap cameras, in the same spirit as the submitted story. If the former, my filter is a square Cokin A format and it's also available in the larger P size. The P should comfortably fit (and be usable with) all but the most extreme wide-angle and telephoto lenses.
  • SBelyea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Seriously, dbr onix, what are you talking about? You create HDR images by changing the f-stops in a photo and taking the same shot multiple times, then combining it. Cheap and crappy fisheye lenses are not a requirement.
  • RadiatedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Nice concept but I wouldn't want to put a peep hole on my camera, imagine going downtown with that thing :|
  • mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I'll play! But what I really want to know is whether the title is misleading or not. I can't be sure from all the previous responses.

    I also want to know if people didn't Digg the article. That information is crucial.
  • Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Fun game: What does the second comment about this article say?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wont work on any camera with a decent sized lens. Might work on those teeny pocket cameras the girls like so much but not much else.
  • heatherbelle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can get the same effect with my editing software.
  • DucoNihilum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Why would you need 'quality' when you have cute kittens? [/sarcasm]
  • bkumar12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This story is mis-leading because you are making it seem like there is a 11$ camera but it is only a lens.( stupid story!!)
  • SpacemanSpiff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@dbr_onix

    WTF does this have to do with HDR?
  • brandiniman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'll tell you guys a secret: http://www.instructables.com/ex/i/1D59459A4AC71029AC23001143E7E506/
    Don't rip it to shreds there are a few fun things on there :-)
  • emptyspaces, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anyone who has fooled with a HOLGA or Diana camera and thought it was cool will like this. DOES work with a DSLR if you mount it into a lens cap and use a zoom lens (adds $3 to the project, though!). Yeah, you can probably fake it with Photoshop, but why fake it? Make it!
  • brandiniman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.instructables.com/ex/y/process/ if you're lazy ;-)
  • Aidenag, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1man digg has gone downhill.... look how many people dugg this even after soo many posted replies calling this what it is.. misleading, and innacurate..

    $20 says it break 500 diggs before the "main page only diggers" have had enough of it...
  • Teaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You can get a wide angle lens for my camera for about £20.
  • Egoist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0*****. If you can't take as good of a picture with a $50 throwaway as you can with a $2000 DSLR, you're not as good as a photographer as you want to believe.
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