![]() ![]() ![]() I played on the curve aspect when photographing the vases and lanterns. Below you'll see the photo of the rose doesn't look distorted and all the background curves over. The lens can almost touch the subject and focus. The spec says 40mm but that's from lens to CCD. It has an incredibly good close focus too. You can also point the camera and take candids without them knowing, even when they're up fairly close. The shot below of the Worksop Priory is badly distorted, but it's all in the frame and I was stood right underneath it. It's amazing how much you can get in with a fisheye. I later wandered around Worksop and photographed buildings and park scenes. There's lots of colour fringing, but the amount of subject you get in and the circular motion provide interesting viewpoint. Fisheye lenses aren't brilliant for scenic landscapes, but treescapes taken with the lens pointing upwards can look cool and the lens did a decent job here. I headed off to Derbyshire and shot a few landscapes. I was starting to think the lens was a waste of time and money. And as it's 190 degrees I'd failed to hold my fingers out of view as I operated the camera. The quality again is very distorted and poor. So I got a shot I would not have otherwise had. ![]() I wouldn't have been able to manage this with a normal camera in the space available or time frame allocated. I was able to place the iPhone with lens on the counter and shoot back towards him. When my turn came to speak with Steven I decide to get a shot of him signing the album. The light in Record Collector is, like many shops, strip lighting fluorescents, so that didn't help. You can use the elliptical marquee tool in your image editing program to copy & paste this area so a full circular affect is achieved, but in camera would be better. The packaging shows a full circular effect. When used with the built in camera or the Camera + app the full circular effect is being cut off. I was less than enthusiastic about quality. So my first shots where in Record Collector in a queue. I didn't have chance to become familiar with how the lens worked when I arrived for the Steven Wilson signing, as I'd literally finished ripping the pack apart when I parked up and rushed over to the shop. USB Fever 190 degree fisheye lens: Performance As well as the front aluminium push on cap there's a rear plastic cap which is small and likely to get lost when you take it off and attach the lens to your phone. The lens measuring just 33mm diameter and 15mm high, with a weight of just over 19 grams. ![]() If you buy one without the case/holder (lens appears to hold on with magnets) you can find them for about £18. When I set out testing this I had no idea of price and was expecting something costing at least £100, so was pleasantly surprised to find a price tag of just £26. I was expecting a cheapish plastic construction so the build was a pleasant surprise, also the lens cap is aluminium and fits snugly to the lens to protect that larger area of glass. Thus ending my hopes of jazzing up my iPhone while taking fisheye pics. The back protector case/lens thread is just a silky matt black. I tried without success to perform minor surgery to the packing but ended up going for full scale destruction.Īnd when I eventually managed to prise my way in I was disappointed to find that the funky case design was just a card insert under the blister pack. What a nightmare! Getting into this lens was about as easy as extracting a tooth from a beauty queen. Short stopping points at traffic queues gave me time to attempt the task. I was short of time so as I was heading down Sheffield's A57 Parkway I decided to open the pack and get the lens ready. I picked it up from the office on my way to a record signing by Porcupine Tree's singer/guitarist Steven Wilson. USB Fever 190 degree fisheye lens: Features and Handling The lens screws into the cover over the phone's existing camera lens to offer a 190 degree angle of view. The USB Fever fisheye lens is an aluminium cased lens with 3 element glass optical construction and supplied with an iPhone 4 back cover. ![]()
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