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Opteka OPT-SC37FE Platinum Series 0.3X HD Ultra Fisheye Lens for 25mm, 30mm, 30.5mm & 37mm Digital Video Camcorders
List Price: $299.95
Price: $99.95
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| Direct 37mm mount. Includes adapters for 25mm, 30mm, and 30.5mm |
| Produces an extraordinary degree of barrel distortion. Adding the lens to the camcorders Zoom Lens, results in a 130 Degree horizontal angle of view. |
| Exaggerates depth, pulling nearby objects closer and causing distant objects to recede into the background. |
| Designed to maximize day and night shots by providing maximum light and image |
| Brand new, 5 Year warranty |
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Customers Reviews
2010-03-12
Cheap. Ok at center, fuzzy and bad color near edges
There aren't many options for a 37mm mount 0.3x fisheye at this price. The lens does work as a fisheye on my Sony XR500V camcorder (which records HD at 1080i). The center has reasonably good resolution, but the image quality degrades as you move out towards the edges where everything becomes severely blurred and has severe chromatic aberration (a white line near the edge of the frame becomes split into blurry red, green, and blue lines). People use fisheyes for the strange geometric distortion, so these additional optical problems may not bother you, but I would certainly not call this a "HD" lens in the sense of "high definition". I still give it 3 stars, because I didn't expect too much for the price.
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2010-02-04
Good fisheye lens for the price
This is my first fisheye lens, so I don't know how it holds up against other fisheye lens that cost more. But compared to some cheap wide-angle lens that stick out about an inch, this is a good buy for the price.
When I first attached it to my camcorder (Sony SR-11), the hood on the lens was slanted. I removed the three tiny screws with the included screwdriver, aligned the hood, and screwed it back in. I noticed that the further away from the center of the lens, the videos and pictures I took had a blue/orange distortion. Kind of like how a 3-D movie would look like if you weren't wearing the 3-D glasses. But this shouldn't be a major problem if you're rendering and uploading in 480p. I render my videos in 720p and upload them to vimeo, facebook, & youtube, and they look fine.
I have an external flash that mounts on top of my camcorder. When I take pictures with this lens on, the bottom 1/3 of the picture is dark since the lens is blocking the flash. This is not a problem to me because the added FOV the fisheye gives, makes up for the lost of flash. When taking pictures of people, the part that doesn't get flashed is usually the floor and feet of the subjects.
There should be some videos on youtube if you're curious how wide the fisheye is. I was hoping it would give me a completely circle vignette like those from skateboarding videos, but maybe it's because I'm shooting in 16:9
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2010-02-01
Awesome lens
This performs exactly as expected / hoped. With the adapters, it fits easily in my video camera. You'll be surprised at how much more you can pick up in your shot. I highly recommend this product.
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2009-12-15
Great Fisheye
Its obviously a really great fish-eye for $100. I recommend this to anyone in need of a fish-eye, especially extreme sports filmers. Here is a video my friend made with this lens;[...]
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2009-07-07
Very good Fisheye lense
I was put on to this product by a friend of mine that owns the Century Optics Baby Death Lense. This one is almost identical and for only 1/3 of the price...It's easy to install & take out and it has a better fisheye than the old lense I used (Opteka .43X HD). I recommend this to anyone looking for great fiseye effect on their videos.
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