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Fisheye converter

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Lou.
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So I want to buy a fisheye lens for filming skiing but not as my primary lens. I currently shoot on a t3i with tokina 11-16 and a glidecam. I wanted the fisheye to mix up my shots from the normal followcams. I would only be using maybe 2-3 shots from a fisheye in each edit. Nothing to much. I personally think the old Vx1000 shots are kind of stupid, buuuuuut when mixed in with some glidecam and dslr footy it can look kinda ok. It gives a nice new feel to the shots. Obviously I am not gonna get a Vx1000 but I found this little fisheye converter that seems to make a 18-55 kit lens into a shot that looks almost as cool for like 25 bucks, pretty crazy. check it out.




Wondering if you guys had any experience with these?

Peace,

Louis
Feb 2 2014 3:54PM
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eheath
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Do not buy fish eye converters, just buy a rokinon 8mm
Feb 2 2014 3:56PM
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Lou.
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problem is that I don't have 300 bucks to drop on a lens I'll use only a little
Feb 2 2014 5:13PM
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steezysteeze
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The worst thing you can possibly do with gear is cheap out on stuff, especially when the thing you're cheaping out on is only $200 or less used. And IMO having cuts between standard shots and shots with a heavy vig is nasty.
Feb 2 2014 5:30PM
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raymondcabral
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Next time you come up to sunapee I can let you borrow one I have for the day if youre interested. They aren't that special though. save up for a rokinon.
Feb 2 2014 6:59PM
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cydwhit
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Ya, go for it, won't really hurt for $25, plus you have the 11-16 already so it would be kind of pointless to drop $$$ on the 8mm, I shot this edit almost almost all through one of those converters, just at different zooms on the kit and I thought it turned out kind of nice:

Feb 3 2014 1:16AM
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Lou.
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Haha thatd be sick man. Ill be up there this weekend hopefully
Feb 3 2014 5:52AM
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