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Question: I brought a fisheye lens for my camera but when i take photos it has a black tube how do i get rid of it!?
I brought a fisheye lens for my camera but when i take photos it has a black tube how do i get rid of it!?
i have seen photos on the internet of photos taken using a fisheye lens and they dont have black rings around them!. please help me!. I have already asked this question but me being me stupidly forgot to tell you the camera i have!.

i have a panasonic lumix dmx-fz50

and on the box of the fisheye it says!.!.!.
0!.42 times wide angle lens, day-night video photography

then it says 46mm

i hope you guys can help me out
you were very helpfull on the last question!.

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
That's what a fisheye lens does! :)
Type fisheye into google and look on the images tab!.

What you seem to be after is a diagonal fisheye lens!.
Type diagonal fisheye into google and look on the images tab, see the difference!?

You can use perspective correction in photoshop and other software in order to convert a true fisheye image into a regular wide shot, some of the internet images you have seen may have used this technique!.

also remember the Panasonic Lumix dmx-fz50 is a beginner slr that doesn't have interchangeable lenses!. It only has lens conversions (to convert the existing one)!. so you will not be able to use these types of lenses!.

Looking at this image will make it a bit clearer (from photo on the net)
http://www!.pbase!.com/image/92437596/larg!.!.!.

A circular fisheye creates a circular image within the frame and gives you a 180 degree field of view in all directions!. The diagonal one fills the image frame and gives you 180 degrees FOV only along the diagonal!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Any photo taken with a fisheye lens will be circular!. You can either make it a feature of the photo (I think it looks pretty cool!), or you can crop a rectangle within the circle, but then you're losing a lot of the photo!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Have you got a lens hood on!? That may cause the problem, but I also don't know much about fisheye lenses!.

Good luck with finding out what is wrong!Www@QuestionHome@Com

That is normal!. You have a cheap screw on fisheye adapter and what you see is called vignetting!. Unfortunately there is nothing you can do about it!.

Because you are using a point and shoot camera you don't have the option to truly add a new lens like you would with an SLR!. also from your question it looks like your fisheye adapter is designed for video cameras!. They screw on so if you lens threads are the correct size it will fit!. That does not mean that it will work properly though!. After checking the website it looks like Panasonic has a wide angle adapter available but not a fisheye!. See the link

http://panasonic!.net/avc/lumix/compact/f!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com