A fisheye lens is an extremely wide-angle lens designed for your camcorder that gives the image, produced by a fisheye, a hemispherical effect on the movie. Fisheye lenses have traditionally been popular with photographers filming broad landscapes as they give an idea to the curvature of the earth. Recently, many photographers and camcorder enthusiasts that wanted to add dynamics and excitement to their shoots have used this kind of lens.
The fisheye lens derives its name from the upward view of a fish at the bottom of a lake. Light is deflected as it passes through water, it gives a much-distorted view of the surroundings. You get this same effect when you use your camcorder to shoot video with a fisheye lens.
Because of the spherical distortion of a fisheye lens, it allows you to give great focus to something in the center of the photo or highlight a certain feature of the shot. Fisheye camcorder lenses have been used from grunge and skateboard videos to nature shows. Filmmakers are always coming up with new and innovative ways to use this type of lens.
The fisheye camcorder lens has become commonplace in most video enthusiast's toolkit. The cost of fisheye lenses have been coming down, this makes it easier for many video hobbyist to experiment with their video images.
Sony makes some of the best HD camcorders on the market and their camcorders consistently rank in the top 10 on major review sites. Sony has a great selection of HD camcorders accessories to include fisheye lenses.
