Review on 📹 Opteka OPT-SC37FE Platinum Series 0.3X HD Ultra Fisheye Lens for Digital Video Camcorders with 25mm, 30mm, 30.5mm & 37mm filter sizes by Raffy Baer

This is my first fisheye lens so I don't know how it compares to other fisheye lenses that cost more. But compared to some cheap wide-angle lenses that stick out about an inch, this is a good buy for the price. When I first attached it to my camcorder (Sony SR-11), the lens hood was tilted. I removed three tiny screws with the screwdriver that came with it, aligned the hood and screwed it back on. I noticed that the videos and photos I took had a blue-orange distortion the further away from the center of the lens. It's what a 3D movie would look like if you weren't wearing 3D glasses. However, this shouldn't be a huge problem if you're rendering and loading at 480p. I render my videos in 720p and upload them to Vimeo, Facebook and YouTube and they look great. I have an external flash that mounts on top of my camcorder. When I shoot with this lens, the bottom third of the frame is dark because the lens is blocking the flash. This is not a problem for me because the additional field of view that the fisheye gives compensates for the loss of flash. When photographing people, the unexposed part is usually the bottom and legs of the subject. There should be some videos on YouTube if you're wondering how wide a fish eye is. I was hoping this would give me a completely round vignette like a skateboarding video, but maybe that's because I'm shooting in 16:9.