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If you are a photographer trying to capture moments with a fresh perspective, you will love the fisheye lens. The fisheye lens is mainly used in astronomy and meteorology. These lenses are also called whole-sky lenses as they help you capture a complete hemispherical image. The images captured by fisheye lenses have a curved appearance, and sometimes landscape pictures taken using a fisheye lens will show the curved shape of the Earth.

The curved and distorted appearance of the images that are captured through these lenses continues to attract photographers. The focal length of the fisheye lens is usually 8–10mm or 15–16mm. If you wish to use the fisheye lens for a 35mm film format it would be best for you to use a lens that has a focal length of 8–10mm. It is the high focal length of the fisheye lens that helps produce a curved image that appears artistically distorted. The lenses have wide angles that are usually more than 90 degrees and this makes the images quite indistinct and contorted.

There are several types of fisheye lenses available on the market, and they are used for various purposes. For instance, the circular fisheye lens helps achieve a 180-degree angle. This means that you could capture the complete image of a hemisphere. Then there is the full-frame fisheye lens that helps achieve a full film format picture.

The corners of an image that are captured with a full-frame fisheye lens will appear stretched in a rectangular frame. The effect is quite similar to the funny reflections that you see in magic mirrors, which give a humorously distorted image.

Several companies manufacture fisheye lenses and it is obviously recommended that you purchase one from a company with a good reputation. You can also use a fisheye lens for creating striking videos. The video for the Beastie Boys’ song “Shake Your Rumps” was shot through a fisheye lens. With the fish eye lens, it is not about “taking a picture”. You are “making a picture”.