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10mm fisheye sample gallery

This is a sample gallery for Sigma 10mm and Samsung 10mm diagonal fisheye lenses, suitable for APS-C cameras. There are several programs available for remapping the images into other projections besides the one that they come out from the camera. Two programs that I have tried are PTlens and Fisheye-Hemi.

PTlens program can be used to remap images from a fisheye lens into rectilinear images (but the program can also be used to remove barrel/pichushion distortion from calibrated lenses, CA, vigneting, etc).
PTlens home page: http://epaperpress.com/ptlens

The Fisheye-hemi uses a different remapping method for fisheye images - it preserves more of the original composition and retains more pixels (crops a lot less from the original), preserves perspective of the original image, but achieves to straighten vertical lines. Doesn't work as well for exterior architectural shots, works better when photographing people, etc. Unfortunately, it appears that Fisheye-hemi does not work 100% accurately with Canon APS-C cameras, because a 10mm Fisheye-lens produces a 167 degree FOV on a Canon camera and the program presumes that the lens produces a 180 degree FOV, thus overcorrecting the image and producing distorted lines. You can circumvent this problem by increasing the *long* side of the canvas by about 7% before applying the filter and then cropping afterwards the borders.

UPDATE: I hear that a new 2.0 version of the Fisheye Hemi is coming by the end of the year 2010 and this version will support an APS-C sensor with a 10mm lens.
UPDATE2: The end-of-the-year release doesn't seem so likely as I haven't had any reponse to my query from the company about the v2.0 and the release date.
UPDATE3: It's a shame that the version 2.0 never happened, but at least you can use the method of increasing the canvas size of the long side before applying the filter.

Fisheye-Hemi plugin can be found here: http://www.imagetrendsinc.com/products/prodpage_hemi.asp


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NX20_04200_evening_planet_1500x NX20_04146_autumn_inverted_1500x NX20_04146_autumn_planet_1600x1067 NX20_03486 pier 1600x NX20_03475 lakeshore boats 1800x NX20_03326 tunnel 1600x
450d07738_Fishermans_bastion_1600x 7D_007126_ENH_LR_fish_Budapest_museum_of_applied_arts_1600x 450d07235_stairs_fish_1600x 450d07882_Spinoza_cafe_1600x 450d07810_Boscolo_New_york_cafe_1600x 450d07307_Hungarian_national_museum_1600x1067
450d07226_Budapest_museum_of_applied_arts_1600x 450d07687 The Can 950x 7D_002483 interior fish corrected 1200x 7D_002483 interior with Sigma 10mm fish 1000x 7D_002478 interior 10mm fisheye 1000x 7D_001618 Sigma 10mm fisheye exterior hemi and ptlens 1400x
7D_002290 winter birch Sigma 10mm fish 1200x 7D_12222 Sandie fish 800x 7D_004295 fish balls 950x 7D_004696 fisheye cat 1000x 7D_12675 the ceiling 1000x 7D_00635 Talisker distortion test 1000x
7D_004995 escalator 10mm fish rectilinear 1200x 7D_003392 slush in Helsinki Sigma 10mm 1200xl 7D_003402 slush in Helsinki 950x