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randy-stewart wrote on 10/12/2003, 2:42 PM
Videomonster,
It might help to indicate what kind of camera you have. I just bought a lense for my Sony TRV-120 from B&H Video for an excellent price. To find out which one I needed, I went to the Sony site and searched on equipment for my camera. Then I searched B&H for the model number. Hope this helps.
Randy
Videomonster wrote on 10/12/2003, 3:01 PM
I have a Panasonic PVDV102....
randy-stewart wrote on 10/12/2003, 3:12 PM
Here's a link to B&H for fisheye lenses. I'm sure something here will fit your camera:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?A=search&Q=&a=327_2735&shs=&ci=2102&Submit.x=24&Submit.y=15

Randy
farss wrote on 10/12/2003, 3:20 PM
The good thing about the Raynox lenses is many of them come with adaptors to fit just about any camera.
johnmeyer wrote on 10/12/2003, 7:30 PM
The quality won't be as good, but if you don't need to do a lot of this, you might get what you want by using some combination of the "Spherize," "Deform," and "Pinch/Punch" FX.
98_SNAKE_EATER wrote on 10/12/2003, 10:25 PM
What you really need to do is find a camera shop that will allow you to test lenses on your camera before you buy...

I recently picked up a cheap Cokin .43x Fisheye lens at Best Buy for $39 bucks (I'll be doing a review later this week on camcorderinfo.com)

On my Sony TRV-39 MiniDV cam (with 37mm step ring), it worked flawlessly with zero vignetting and only mild blurring at full zoom...

However, when I tried it on my Sony TRV-310 Digital 8 cam, the results were very poor...

I got a ton of vignetting and wasn't able to zoom past it...

It also started to blurr at about half zoom...


If you find a shop willing to let you try out their lenses, you'll get exactly what you want....




Rick
Videomonster wrote on 10/13/2003, 11:07 PM
Thanks for your help everyone....I didn't even think about testing the lenses out in a store....that's a really good idea. Great links too! Thanks again!

-Videomonster