52Mm Fisheye Lens Review (12.5X Macro Angle Lens )

• 52mm Super Fisheye Lens x1• Lens Cap x2
• Soft Pouch x1
• Cleaner x1
• Original Manufacture Package
A Fisheye lens has an extremely wide angle that takes in a very broad, hemispherical image, lending a neat little "round" effect to things.
Fisheyes are the uber-talented "Peripheral Vision Man" of the superhero squad, capturing sometimes up to a 220-degree field-of-view, although usually it's more around 180 degrees.
Shooting with your Fisheye Lens
When you're shooting with your new Fisheye lensattached, keep your regular camera lens zoomed out as much as possible â€" or if you have multiple lens, stick the one that's the widest on. Remember to keep the camera lens at the same length when the Fisheye is on â€" so no zooming! You'll lose the fisheye effect if you do so.
If you're going to use your auto-focus while you shoot, go ahead and allow it to focus â€" but then switch it to manual before you finish taking the photo. The Fisheye throws off your camera's focusing computer, so it will endlessly keep refocusing and never take the picture.
Love the fisheye effect, but want to use it on older photos that you took back in the sad caveman days prior to the DIY Fisheye lens? If you have Photoshop, then try out the Spherize filter; a little bit of tweaking yields great Fisheye-like results. Also try out the Pinch and Distort filters â€" most versions of Photoshop should have all three. If you're lucky enough to have Photoshop CS3, then there's a new Fisheye filter that's even better! There's also a number of Photoshop tutorials that all make use of some variation on these filters.
Don't have an SLR? Point-and-shooters can try out the DIYWide Angle Lens that we wrote about ages ago. It's really nifty, and gives you a great wide-angle, similar to a Fisheye's.
Fisheye + Spinning Children = Too Cool for School. We haven't tried this for ourselves yet, but we suspect combining the DIY Fisheye Lens with this method of taking photos of spinning children would yield some pretty nifty results.