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Subject: Odd Question

scoleman123 opened this issue on Aug 05, 2008 · 5 posts
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scoleman123 ( ) posted Tue, 05 August 2008 at 4:55 PM · edited Wed, 25 December 2024 at 12:13 AM

So there are tele-extenders, that increase the focal length of a lens. But is there a way to widen the image via an apparatus of the same nature?

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inshaala ( ) posted Tue, 05 August 2008 at 6:19 PM

If  "widen" = decrease the focal length then i think there are... only really seen them for camcorders tho. You are looking for something which says 0.45x or something below 1x as far as i am aware.  Cant help other than that as i havent really looked into it.

Gut reaction would be that the quality wouldnt be that great... but then all these extenders etc are compromises for buying the real deal.

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scoleman123 ( ) posted Tue, 05 August 2008 at 9:21 PM

 I was thinking of taking my fish-eye lens (Canon 15mm) and trying to go even wider. 

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inshaala ( ) posted Wed, 06 August 2008 at 9:01 AM

urm... doubt it...  what is the angle of view of the 15mm?  because you cant really go beyond 180 degrees without a specialist lens (or the nikon 8mm fish with a shaved collar can go to 185 degrees i am told).

However - you might get an interesting effect if you tried it.

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In every stone sleeps a crystal.
Remember the Shaman, when he used to say:
Man is the dream of the Dolphin"

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scoleman123 ( ) posted Wed, 06 August 2008 at 9:55 AM

 Yeah, it already hits the 180 degree mark. 

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