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I have a sony A55 camera and I am looking to buy a wide angle/fisheye to use. Im not going to be purchasing many lenses so I want one that it pretty versatile and not much money. I need a lens with auto focus obviously for filming. Do you guys have any suggestions? if you have any examples of what you shot with your lens that'd be great.
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Filming with autofocus is the most sketchy thing I've heard all year.
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Also:
no lens fits the criteria of versatile and fisheye
fisheye is only for up close shots
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I know absolutely nothing about Sony Cameras, but I use a Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 HD fisheye with my Canon 60D.
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No fisheye for filming (fisheye for stills works sometimes), no auto focus, if you want auto focus use a smrtfone.
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Thread jack : With a new GoPro Hero 4 (Silver) can you get a fisheye for it or is it built in ? Or not at all? If so fuck GoPro because you can buy them for Iphones
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Brayden_Buckingham wrote:Thread jack : With a new GoPro Hero 4 (Silver) can you get a fisheye for it or is it built in ? Or not at all? If so fuck ...more
It's a wide angle
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IMO fisheye lenses are used by inexperienced film makers in an attempt to add some "creativity" to their edits. But 99% of the time it looks terrible. I think the skate world brought that over (thanks guys...). If an edit starts with a fisheye shot I turn it off. When I started filming and playing with cameras I thought they were awesome but after studying the craft a little I realized how awful they really are.
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A lot of people have trouble using the diaortion of fisheyes to make things look good
if you learn, it looks good
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bmxsteve99 wrote:Also:
no lens fits the criteria of versatile and fisheye
fisheye is only for up close shots
thats why i suggested a wide angle as well, I want something that i can shoot photos with too, what do you usually use
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bmxsteve99 wrote:Also:
no lens fits the criteria of versatile and fisheye
fisheye is only for up close shots
Kendallynnklein wrote:thats why i suggested a wide angle as well, I want something that i can shoot photos with too, what do you usually use
18-55mm kit lens or a mini death lens fisheye
Getting a vx2k soon as well
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But at school I use a t5i with either a telephoto lens or a fixed length lens for interviews and close ups
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