Billy Madison
06-11-2006, 02:50 AM
This is pretty damn sad for a skate forums website to not have any topics or anything about filming!
Good Filming can make a good skate video and bad filming can just make it terrible! so i will give you the rundown on some Basic fisheyes.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/images/largeimages/232570.jpg
This Fisheye lens is probably the most basic thing you can get on a typical video camera that you would get from your parents thats miniDV.
Its a Kenko .43x fisheye adapter for a camera with 37mm front threads if your camera does not have 37mm threads you can go to any camera website preferable B and H (http://Bhphotovideo.com) and buy spacers for your camera to fit on to the fisheye.
Costs about 35-45 dollars depending on the store and you can typically find it at most local camera stores.
It gives a lot of vig (black little things around the edges)
Here is an example of terrible vig (you do not get this much from a kenko)
http://www.joebly.com/7-Fisheye-Lawn.jpg
As you can see there is a TON of vignetting there.
Here is another example of vig but with a lot less
[This fisheye seems to be a lot wider and has way less vig.
Here is yet another fisheye lens that fits a camera with the same front threads as the kenko
http://www.adorama.com/images/large/CYDSFEWA37.jpg
This lens is WAY better and has no loss of quality when you zoom through it but you would not like to do that with a fisheye
It is called a .3x ultra fisheye adapter 37mm or a "baby death" as many skate filmers have called it.
This lens runs a little bit on the expensive side of 250-300 dollars
But it is incredibly good and has excellent distortion and gives absolutely no vig at all unless you space it out.
i hope this tutorial has helped you out
Any Corrections mistakes or whatever
message me.
Good Filming can make a good skate video and bad filming can just make it terrible! so i will give you the rundown on some Basic fisheyes.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/images/largeimages/232570.jpg
This Fisheye lens is probably the most basic thing you can get on a typical video camera that you would get from your parents thats miniDV.
Its a Kenko .43x fisheye adapter for a camera with 37mm front threads if your camera does not have 37mm threads you can go to any camera website preferable B and H (http://Bhphotovideo.com) and buy spacers for your camera to fit on to the fisheye.
Costs about 35-45 dollars depending on the store and you can typically find it at most local camera stores.
It gives a lot of vig (black little things around the edges)
Here is an example of terrible vig (you do not get this much from a kenko)
http://www.joebly.com/7-Fisheye-Lawn.jpg
As you can see there is a TON of vignetting there.
Here is another example of vig but with a lot less
[This fisheye seems to be a lot wider and has way less vig.
Here is yet another fisheye lens that fits a camera with the same front threads as the kenko
http://www.adorama.com/images/large/CYDSFEWA37.jpg
This lens is WAY better and has no loss of quality when you zoom through it but you would not like to do that with a fisheye
It is called a .3x ultra fisheye adapter 37mm or a "baby death" as many skate filmers have called it.
This lens runs a little bit on the expensive side of 250-300 dollars
But it is incredibly good and has excellent distortion and gives absolutely no vig at all unless you space it out.
i hope this tutorial has helped you out
Any Corrections mistakes or whatever
message me.