13 Dec 2007
DIY Fisheye Lens
Our friends over at Photojojo sent us this awesome feature:
How to make a fisheye lens picture out of a pair of old glasses and some tape! We thought this was totally cool, so we decided to post and see if anyone has done any cool DIY mods for film/photos lately! Hope this inspires you photophiles!
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Another traditional low-budget solution: Bore a hole in a lenscap and mount a through-the-door viewer in it. Be careful; depending on your lens you may need to rig a spacer to keep it from contacting and scratching your lens’s front element. I tried it with my 50mm macro, and got darned near 180 degrees of view… but you need fast film, since of course it’s a tiny aperture compared to the normal use of the lens.
Then there are all the abstract effects I used to do by working directly on film, but that’s an extended essay…
I like this idea, much cheaper than the actual lens. One of my favorite camera ideas was rigging up a timer on a disposable camera, and then attaching it to a kite. I read about that one somewhere a while ago. It gives a fun perspective.