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Step 5Make a mount
After you have made a tube you may want to create a mount for it to hold the lens firmly.
I tried a few different ways including holding it on the front with elastic bands.
In the end I had a metal mount made by a friend as they have a workshop and various metal bending tools.This mount allows me to mount the camera and lens to a tripod or my bike so I don't have to hold it all in place. It makes it very easy to make fisheye films.
You may be able to make one from card wrapped in duct tape, a bit of road sign that you acquired or from the side of an ice cream tub or box., it should be fairly rigid.
The mount is secured to the camera with a quick release plate from my tripod. The bolt passes through a hole in the bottom of the metal mount and screws into the tripod mount of my camera holding it all together tightly.
Some cameras (like mine) don't have the tripod mount directly in line with the centre axis of the lens, you will have to allow for this offset when designing your mount. "Measure twice, cut once" is the best advice I can offer here :)
Have a look at my set on flickr for some more fisheye photos.
You can use FisheyeWarp to do clever things to your images, its free!
Have a look at this Flickr Group for DIY lenses
Go out with your new lens, shoot everything again in super wide vision.
I tried a few different ways including holding it on the front with elastic bands.
In the end I had a metal mount made by a friend as they have a workshop and various metal bending tools.This mount allows me to mount the camera and lens to a tripod or my bike so I don't have to hold it all in place. It makes it very easy to make fisheye films.
You may be able to make one from card wrapped in duct tape, a bit of road sign that you acquired or from the side of an ice cream tub or box., it should be fairly rigid.
The mount is secured to the camera with a quick release plate from my tripod. The bolt passes through a hole in the bottom of the metal mount and screws into the tripod mount of my camera holding it all together tightly.
Some cameras (like mine) don't have the tripod mount directly in line with the centre axis of the lens, you will have to allow for this offset when designing your mount. "Measure twice, cut once" is the best advice I can offer here :)
Have a look at my set on flickr for some more fisheye photos.
You can use FisheyeWarp to do clever things to your images, its free!
Have a look at this Flickr Group for DIY lenses
Go out with your new lens, shoot everything again in super wide vision.
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Jun 30, 2010. 4:39 PMsid duboid
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can u retract the orignal lens piece when the fish eye is on?
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Jul 24, 2010. 2:11 AM
bertus52x11
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bertus52x11
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By retracting, do you mean when switching the camera off? The answer is yes...
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