Home made fisheye mod for $20

[ocular]

I don't have $900 for a fisheye so I thought I'd spend $20 at home depot haha. It's a bit more like shooting with a pin hole camera and there are limitations, but still it's fun.
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My gf was waiting for a pickup so I checked on her through my peephole and wow the light was just coming down perfectly, and omg I bet I could capture that if I exposed right and it looked freakin awesome. So next day I went to home depot and bought myself a peephole for about $6 .Then I bought a board of corning for $6. Finally I purchased a roll of duck/duct tape for $7.


Tools you'll require.

Box cutters
Hot glue gun or acrylic caulk (used in sealing cracks)
Ruler
Marker


I cut and snapped the corning down to my lens size. I have a tamron 17-55mm, so I outlined it with a sharpie and cut it out with a box cutter. Here's the important part, I aligned the peephole in the middle with the ruler horizontal and vertically. Placed the peephole in and secured it with hot glue, but if u have caulk laying around it'll do too. I secured my mod with duck tape just on the end of the lens, so I could still focus.

The corning does not scratch; I've tested this for two days.
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[jabber]

I like the ingenuity--fine solution to the $900 problem.

[ocular]

Thanks. It's opened up a world of possibilities.

[F8&Bthere]

Pretty cool. Anyone considering something in between the peephole and the $900 fisheye solutions might wanna check out the $300-ish Samyang 8mm/3.5 At first I wrote it off as junky but it's actually getting some positive feedback, like here:
http://photo.net/canon-eos-digital-camera-forum/00Txei
and here:
http://www.lenstip.com/index.php?tes...wu&test_ob=160

[ocular]

Wow you know what I never heard of Samyang until now. Where is their offical site ?