The Canon 8-15mm lens selection is pretty good too. I find that gives me the best defish to work from. *I used the Sigma 8mm setting for all the images I have defished in this post. To make it easier, I shot a scene and have defished it with the various different fisheye lens options you can select from. And we have choices of course! You need to select the fisheye option that works best for you. Since we are using a m43 camera and potentially a lens from a different make, we need to select these manually. If you are using a camera and lens combination that lightroom has already profiled this info gets automatically selected and you are done right there. Select the “Profile” section under the tab and click “enable profile corrections.” Then under “lens make” select a manufacturer. In the develop section, open up the Lens Correction tab. Warning though…people may look really strange depending where they were in the frame…so careful trying to defish a portrait for example! This really works best on landscape and architectural images. There are various plugins that do the same, but they cost extra and mean I have to go into photoshop. Check this out…Īdobe Lightroom has an excellent tool for doing this. Basically the whole premise is to shoot wide enough to still have your subject framed as desired AFTER your warp and crop your image. I wanted to see how well this lens could be “de-fished.” Defishing means removing the distortion from a fisheye so it looks like a conventional rectilinear image. Plus lightrooms defringe tool can handle it pretty well. Not my favorite, and not the strongest performer in terms of color fringing and such…but most people aren’t worried about that when it comes to a fisheye. I’ve spent some time with the Panasonic F/4 fisheye. A fisheye can be used for architecture pretty effectively though. Rokinon (and various rebadged versions of the same) and Panasonic both offer fisheye lenses that are more affordable. I am hoping to have a review of it up soon. The Olympus fisheye is also quite pricey, but at F/1.8 there is no other fisheye like it. For a lot of people the pro lenses may be out of reach for such a specialty lens. Olympus doesn’t offer any tilt-shift lenses at the moment, and only last year did the ultra wide 7-14 become available. I also love shooting architecture with a fisheye. (panoramic virtual tours I shoot 90% of the time with a fisheye) I love getting really close with a fisheye for crazy perspective. In fact, a large part of my career rests on my use of fisheye lenses. A lot of people own one and never put it to good use. Fisheye lenses…some people love them and some people hate them.
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