Fisheye for HVX200

Cavision Fisheye

Cavision Fisheye

Joe Lawry said:
Has anyone tried the Cavision 0.4x? cheaper yes, but i wonder what the fish effect is like.
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I have the Cavision 0.4x fish and I have been really happy with it so far.
I have bunch of sample clips that I have been meaning to post just need to get some time to get around to it.
You can see some sample of it in this promo video I created for a young skater.
All the fisheye shots where done with the Cavision.

http://www.rip.tv/video/view/4883

if you want to see a higher res version the video is on my Vimeo page too
www.vimeo.com/brianhunttv

You can get the it direct from Cavision.
 
Joe Lawry said:
The 0.55 Century seems like the way to go, not too wide so useable for certain professional applications. But still wide enough for extreme sports.

Has anyone tried the Cavision 0.4x? cheaper yes, but i wonder what the fish effect is like.

As nice as the 16x9 0.45x looks i dont like the fact you have to step down to a 72mm thread to attach it. This has got to be the reason that with certain hvxs (well most) you see slight vignetting on the left hand side.

But then again, guess you cant have everything, even centurys extreme fish vignettes...
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i used the century .55 last season, i didn't really like it, and i kinda wanted wider, i got the 16x9 .45 and is pretty good, the converter ring is a non issue, screw mount works fine for me, although there is some decent chromatic aberation going on in the corners. great lens for what i do, snowboard filming.

the century just didn't fit my needs. i wish there was an fisheye that copied the distortion on the 15mm canon fisheye for stills, or the 3.5mm century for 16mm.
whatever mack dawg used to run on that sr3 was sick too.
 
aleyland.. that's totally true. is nice to get a bit wider but I found that the .55 was much more functional in the majority of application so that's why I bought it. Ocassionaly I'd like that funky blown out fishy fish look, but most of the time getting just a really wide with the .55 was preferred for clients and such. It doesn't really fit the traditional fisheye concept I think, it's more of an extreme wide and that just works for me more often.


Like on this piece: plenty of the .55 in here.

http://www.electriccowtheater.com/RUSTY/RUSTY640x360.mov
 
I have the Cavision .7x, it's super light, and not overwhelmingly wide on the 4.5mm HVX lens. It definitely has barrel distortion (so does the stock lens, though) but not an extreme amount.
 
resurection of thread but this Century footy looks really wid even through its .55 ????wierd or am I loosing it I would love a comparison Century .55 VS 16x9 .4 :)
 
i have the century fisheye for sale . made a snow board clip on youtube, look on ,mount washington bc will be put up by jetaddiction. you can just rent it from me if you want.
 
There's no .3x fisheye available for the HVX? No wonder skateboard filmers who own HVX's still shoot with VX1000's with MK1 fisheyes.
 
a .3 on the HVX would be a circular round fisheye that I just find to be so unpleasant. That 16x9 fish is totally wide enough for most apps. and I love the .55 from century for everything else. a .3 is a one trick pony looking shot IMHO
 
century has a fisheye that weighs 4 lbs for the HD cams. i had one for my sony fx1. and it was just unbelieveably heavy. but sooooooo wide. i loved it but it was becoming a hassle just filming a clip.
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