Bhautik Joshi, the crazy guy who put a 18-55mm SLR lens on his iphone, has created another awesome do-it-yourself device. He uses a fisheye peephole as the main lens element and a decapitated soda can as the lens body. You can attach the whole thing to a SLR camera. Amazing!!! The quality is of course still awful but the thing is that you now can make fisheye photos with a lens that costs virtually nothing. Just take your crappy old DSLR camera, attach this lens, take 4 images at a place and stitch them together. This is I believe another step closer to making spherical panoramic photography mainstream. Good job Bhautik!
You can read the whole guide how to build it and more screenshots in the author’s article: The fisheye tin cam
The fisheye tin cam sample images
The fisheye tin cam lens
(I found this article originally at PetaPixel, thanks!)
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