Ideas About How to Use The Nikon 10.5mm Fisheye Lens in Your Own Photography

I'll be honest with you that I'm not a huge expert on all of the inside guts of a lens. However, I can tell you that, after three years of owning this lens I'm still deeply in love. I've created this web article to show examples of how you can use a fisheye lens in your own photography - and provide you a little bit more information about the Nikon 10.5mm lens in particular.

This lens goes for about $800 USD and it only works on the Nikon digital SLR cameras (that said, some of the creative methods I'm about to describe will work on ALL fisheye lenses). This particular 10.5mm fisheye gives the same results on Nikon digital cameras as the 16mm fisheye lens on a film (or full-frame) camera.

The literature says this 10.5mm fisheye is a DX-frame-filling fisheye lens, which means it fills the entire rectangular image with a curvy, distorted image and sees 180 degrees from corner to corner diagonally. It is not a circular image like some of the film fisheye (where you see black on the corners and a full circle).

There is a "straightening tool" in both Nikon Capture and Photoshop.. but why straighten something that looks so absolutely cool!?

Now... on to some examples