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How to, Fish Eye 0.42 (Zero.42)

      The name Fish Eye 0.42 (Zero. 42) comes from that it's almost impossible to not get your feet in the picture. I also include a couple of pics, and links from the other DIYs I put together. Of course I didn't "invent" these cheap tricks, but just did what other have already done.

This is the $3.75 Peep Hole  that I used in the tabblo "Is a $3.75 Fish Eye Lens worth the cost?" It is really just to figure out a way to get it in front of the lens you already uses.It doesn't work on all lenses, it must fill up as much as possible of the of the view finder and you must be able to focus. I tested it on my Kodak P850, just by holding it close to the lens and zoom until it got the right size, but couldn't get the focus right. On my Nikon it's perfect with the 18-55 zoomed to 55.

      I had the luck of finding a hood that once kept a totally worthless 2x add on lens for a point and shot camera, I had already taken out the lense and used it as magnifying glass, it has 52mm fitting so I made a hole in the plastic cap and fitted the peep hole, turned out to be perfect. The back of the peep hole should be as close to the real lens as possible.

                  Otherwise I would think that a lens cap( to the right) with something "dough nut" shaped sawed out of plywood or so, on top would make the trick, or maybe a lens hood, or what ever that can hold the peep hole close to the lens and keep the side light out. If you plan to test it just hold the peep hole in front of your lens, and if it works figure out something to hold it. Google "peep hole fish eye lens" and you will find a lot of tips.

      The quality of the 0.42 lens is of course not that great, you can use auto focus sometimes, but it's easy to focus manually too. Of some reason my pics got overexposed, and got much better when I compensated -1 step. Then it's some work in P.S to sharpen and get the pic a little better.

      The lens Zero. 42.01 is the one I used on this tabblo, it's an upgrade where I exchanged the lens in the back of the peep hole with lens from an old camera that I already had butchered earlier. It's a much bigger and probably better lens that made the pic quality better and the incoming light much stronger.

Link to Digital IR How To: "My new Infrared camera"

 

Link To Pin Hole Camera How to: " Will A $.00 Lens Really Work?"
COMMENTS
Zippywinds said at 10:07 p.m. on Jun 7, 2007:
DAM you have the coolest sweetest gear and CONGRATS , and spectacular pics :)
Pkeener said at 9:56 a.m. on Jun 8, 2007:
Anders, or should we call you Inspector Gadget?? This is very useful and fun. The way you framed the last shot is sweet!
Wiklund73 said at 10:20 a.m. on Jun 8, 2007:
Cool, Anders!!
DEE-Trow said at 10:25 a.m. on Jun 8, 2007:
Cool. Love the black and whites!
AdSR said at 1:59 p.m. on Jun 8, 2007:
Great how-to!

Regarding the need to compensate -1EV, I guess that's because part of the image is completely dark. For a 3:2 sensor you have almost 48% of it not getting any light - pretty close to 1EV. Even for 4:3 it's still about 41%. I wonder how the result would change with center-weighted or spot metering.
Alisande21 said at 1:32 p.m. on Jun 9, 2007:
Great suggestions! Thanks for the tips. :)
EMA said at 3:36 p.m. on Jun 9, 2007:
Very interesting tabblo! We learn a lot with you!
Love2laugh said at 3:46 p.m. on Jun 9, 2007:
Boy .. you can make some interesting tabblos. You really do have some amazing creativity, Anders.
Zero42 said at 8:28 p.m. on Jun 9, 2007:
great collection of research and tallent
Tishfish said at 9:52 a.m. on Jun 10, 2007:
Neat pictures! Well done.
OscarDaniel said at 12:35 p.m. on Jun 11, 2007:
Great Anders , thanks
L.e.n.k.a said at 8:10 p.m. on Jun 12, 2007:
you are so awesome for telling us everything gyou find out yourself...... I really appreciate your aducating.... it's very inspiring and wonderfull. Thank you.
Nakedeast said at 10:24 p.m. on Jun 19, 2007:
very cool tabblo!!
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