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Wide-Angle and Fish-Eye Camera Lens Adptor for $5

video Wide-Angle and Fish-Eye Camera Lens Adptor for $5

How to build a lens adaptor for your camera for about $5-10. This adaptor allows you to get wide angle shots up to 200 degrees field of view and take funny fish-eye effect photos. Uses only commonly availible materials. The entire process and example photos are shown in the video.

26 comments

Aug 11, 2011. 11:24 PM

ZoDo says:

Amazing!!! and realy easy to make.

Mar 30, 2011. 3:25 PMKovuKora says:

Wow, sweet! I'm totally gonna make this for my own camera!

Jul 29, 2009. 1:18 AMgeemarc12 says:

hi i live in england and i cant seem to find them any where any ieas where i could get one from because im not willing to pay like £400 for one im a skater so i need one for mine and my friends skate videos

Sep 3, 2010. 10:34 AM

paperairplanecreator says:

thats a great idea for a skater. a little tip: try amazon or ebay. if you have it there in england.

Jun 23, 2010. 12:57 PMbad ass pope says:

You can probably get them from Wilko's, Homebase, Focus, B&Q, Wickes and anywhere like that. Any DIY type shops should sell them for a couple of quid.

Jun 23, 2010. 12:45 PMbad ass pope says:

You can get them on Amazon...

Dec 31, 2009. 11:09 PMsjoobbani says:

I have trouble with 2 things:
focus
&
Lighting.

Focus: i tried on landscape, i tried autofocus, and I tried macro. what to do? still blurry, i understand the edge's could be blurry, but the whole thing?

Lighting: everything seems a darker, and flash ruins things even more. tried different exposures, brightness... only thing to do, is use the Nightvision mode on the camera, from my 'ible : and that makes everything green, so...
please help.

Jan 30, 2008. 3:55 AMPetervG says:

Great instructions on this! I have one of those things, and It's hard to just hold it on my camera, so maybe I'll do this. Too bad it wouldn't work for my D40.

Nov 20, 2009. 1:30 AMpurplemutant says:

You can always try making a mount for your D40. I have a D50 and it would be awesome to use a peep hole. I have thought ways to mount a peep hole on a DSLR. My thought was to use a lens cap and mount the peep hole to that. I think the setup in this instructable could be adapted to that. Just drill a hole in the lens cap big enough for the PVC pipe. Then glue the pipe in the hole. Of course you want to be extra careful that the pipe wont touch your lens and scratch it. I should try it out and make an instructable.

Aug 20, 2009. 5:39 PMturbogunz says:

ummm what's the diameter of the pipe.. or does it depend on the thickness of the camera lens.. hm.. but then that would make it a bit less simple having to find those measurements and stuff.. hm.. aweeeeeesome idea though! just what i'm looking for

Aug 21, 2009. 9:11 AMshoemaker (author) says:

Right, you kind of need to start with the diameter of your camera lens. In this instructabel I used 3/4 inch. Other cameras may vary.

Aug 21, 2009. 1:41 PMturbogunz says:

yeah.. sorry i was being dumb thanks man, this instructable rules

Aug 16, 2009. 3:34 PMSpiroExDeus says:

Hm. Why does this have a totally unrelated (although interesting) video about making a mini motor with it?

Aug 18, 2009. 11:52 AMshoemaker (author) says:

Thanks for letting me know that I had the video mixed up. The correct video is up now. Cobbler

Jan 3, 2009. 9:37 AMmastermatt63 says:

Hey guys I have a flash video mino and i was wondering if there was a way I could use this fisheye trick on it. As you may know, the lens is built into the device so it would be very difficult to come up with a solution. But I did find this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XEisLuG1wI&feature=related

Nov 27, 2008. 5:47 PMkarawara says:

do u sell that thing?, im desperately willing to buy from you

Aug 20, 2008. 9:05 AMbenitbaby1 says:

this is a great idea. but the only question i have is that is there any other way of doing this cause my dad said he dosnt want me to buy a peephole cause he said it sucks. but i dont think id does.

Aug 20, 2008. 2:21 PMshoemaker (author) says:

This method does not produce poster quality photos, but the quality is quite good. You would probably use this thing mostly for fun anyway. There are ways to get better fisheye photos, but these involve much higher costs.

Aug 4, 2008. 12:12 PMcodester says:

Shoemaker; you are going to be the next KipKay.

Jul 26, 2008. 11:56 PMIzokay says:

Awesome. Thanks for the idea. I made one of these for my camcorder.

Apr 13, 2008. 1:53 PMSergeantRage425 says:

BRavo

Mar 15, 2008. 10:58 PMSgt.Waffles says:

GREAT instructable! I have a lot of aquariums, and some times its hard to get all of the tank in one shot with enough detail. This will be GREAT! Kudos to you, + and faves!