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Sunex SuperFisheye 5.6 mm with circular capture

Sometimes 14mm isn’t wide enough. Granted, a 15mm is too wide for birdies but definitely not enough for panorama freaks with crop-factor DSLR. If 5.6mm is wide enough for you, Sunex just launched a SuperFisheye at PMA 2008. With popular cropped-FOV DSLRs like the Rebel XT and Nikon D40, you lose a lot of those precious millimeters so there’s definitely a market for something like this. 5.6mm is insanity though — and as you can see, it covers a lot of real estate.

This Sunex SuperFisheye 5.6mm F5.6 circular fish eye lens has an angle of view of 185° in all directions, provides enough overlap and allows stitching software to realize a 360° immersing image with only two shots. It is exclusively designed for digital SLR for Canon APS-C and Nikon DX format DSLR Cameras to produce a full circular image within the frame.Still, if you’re trying to get the circle effect, you’re putting your subject in the area with the craziest distortion. You can use a (probably expensive) Photoshop filter to flatten the image, and it looks like it’s corrected a little strangely, but it works.

The lens kits costs about $799 including the Dewarper DSLR Photoshop compatible plug-in filter for correcting or optimizing distortions that also works with other fish eye glasses like Peleng 8mm, Canon 15mm or Sigma 8mm.

Tags: Sunex SuperFisheye, 5.6 mm, circular capture , PMA 2008, photoshop, Dewarper DSLR , camera