Fisheye Peephole

[nametaken]

Has anybody had any experience shooting with a fisheye to emulate a peephole? I am shooting on an HVX and would like to pull it off.

 

[Joseph Stunzi]

I can see this working. They actually make (spy) peephole cameras. Would be cool to see what those look like when combined with an actual peephole.

 

[j]

Get a wide angle adapter for a smaller sized lens (I used a .5 58mm lens thread) and cut a hole and mount it in black cardstock. Hold 2-3" from the lens and it should work great.

Short, short clip of it here, about 10 seconds in just after the tractor. Shot with Zeiss 10-1 72mm front thread on 16mm.

http://www.emrl.com/j/downloads/Demo2.wmv

 

[nametaken]

Awesome. Thanks for the input.

 

[ESTEBEVERDE]

Nice Reel

 

[Beat Takeshi]

You can just use the pucker filter in after effects also. Then you can control how much effect you want.

 

[clang]

Yeah, I'd be tempted to do it in post - give it a try on some generic footage to see if it gives the desired effect.

 

[benniles]

an easy way to achieve the peephole look is to just take a roll of black gaff tape, tape the inside of the roll so that the cardboard tube that the roll comes on isn't showing then hold it up against your fisheye lens or wide angle lens.

I have used this trick on a couple of features that i've worked on. Works great and is fast and painless.

Do some test and let me know what you think.

check out my work at :
http://homepage.mac.com/benniles1