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The key to getting reasonable fish-eye images is to buy as wide a door viewer as you can find. This $15 version covered most of the field of view of the lens on my Coolpix 880. You need to keep the door viewer out of the way of the lens when it extends, either by using a screw-in tube like the Nikon extender I purchased for $5 or a short piece of PVC tubing attached with tape. (You can see why you'd want to use an older camera for this project.)
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You get a very wide field of view with your home-built fish-eye, but you'll need to tinker with your camera's settings to get your subjects in focus. Experiment with zooming in and with the macro mode, if your camera has one. Remember to turn off your built-in flash, as it will be blocked by the door viewer
To attach the aperture you charge some blazon of abiding arise on the camera. This is area accepting an old camera comes in handy. If your camera doesn't accept a spiral cilia you'll charge to band a section of PVC tubing or a canteen cap of some affectionate assimilate your camera and again band the aperture assimilate it. My Nikon Coolpix 880 has a spiral thread, and for $5 I was able to buy a threaded adapter that formed accurately with my $15 ultrawide aperture viewer.
Once the "fish-eye" is added, the camera will accept a huge acreage of view—much added than you can commonly get with the camera itself—and it assets that apparent fish-eye effect. I begin I bare to crop images a bit afterwards demography them, as the aperture eyewitness didn't awning the absoluteness of the 880's lens.Read the article and hope you can deal with the old digital camera to know



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