Photojojo Wide Angle and Fisheye Lens

I spent the last 15 minutes or so messing with the last two photojojo lenses.  The wide angle and the fisheye.  I am not happy with either.  I think it’s my fault though.  I am guessing that the metal ring that I glued onto my iPhone was placed ever so slightly wrong, and the result is the two wide lenses are screwed up.  Still, I don’t have the intestinal fortitude to pry the ring off and place a new one on right now, so you all are going to have to live with this for now.

I thought it would be fun to do this test in the back yard.  Unfortunately the sun is so bright and the reflection off the snow is so intense that I couldn’t see squat on the camera app screen.  You know, you take what you can get.  I supplemented the stupidity with more pictures of a coke bottle.  The cat is sleeping on the couch, so I won’t be adding more of her just now.

Our first shot is just the camera app.

Now we have the wide angle. Note the horrible distortion on the right of the image, because I sure as hell did. Wait a second… I had this oriented wrong. ARGH!!!

Finally we have the fisheye. Not so much distorted as just having the effect off center.

The first test had the camera in portrait orientation. Now let’s try the same deal in landscape. First, no external lens.

Now the wide angle. Note the distortion on the right and the upper left. Yeah!

Finally, the grotesquely off center fisheye, although the sun peeking in on the upper right is kinda cool.

Test #3 has us back inside with the obligatory coke bottle. No lens here.

The wide angle is still distorted as hell, but you can still see that the field of view is wider. It’s not a total loss, right? Right?

Again, the off center fisheye.

One more time, in landscape.

With the wide angle.

And with the fisheye. For some reason I want to throw a capital F onto fisheye every single time I type it. Why is that? Note that the effect is really good. You can see Jen on the right side of the picture. She was in the next room, exactly 90 degrees to my right. It works, I just have it positioned wrong.

I tried shifting the two lenses around on the metal right to try and fix the errors, but nothing I did helped at all. I think the problem is the ring the lens connects to, not the lenses themselves. Any thoughts, or do I just suck?

The zoom is the lens I really wanted. The macro was the happy bonus. I would expect that there will never come a time that I will want to use a fisheye lens, other than just goofing around, so that one is just sort of there. The idea of the wide angle is nice, but I think I would be less apt to use that than either the zoom or the macro. As it stands, the two that I am disappointed with are the ones I’d probably go to the least. I’m still disappointed though. I’ll try fixing the ring and then try testing again. Like I said, I can milk 100 posts out of these silly things.

I Am Such a Nerd

I’m such a nerd.  Like there was any doubt that a guy who blogs like 3-5 times a day would be anything other than an uber nerd.

A couple of months ago I turned to Twitter with a question.  I always turn to Twitter with nerd questions, and I never get any answers or advice or anything outside of occasionally being followed by spam porn accounts, but I digress.

I asked Twitter if anyone had any experience with using external camera lenses with their phones, specifically their iPhones.  I was curious about The Photojojo Phone Lens Series, and the Olloclip iPhone camera lens.  I was leaning toward Photojojo because it includes a zoom lens, where Olloclip does not.

As mentioned, the Twitterverse was totally silent in response to my questions so I had to decide for myself.

I just ordered the Photojojo set.

I told you I was an uber nerd!

 

 

Oh yeah, I also ordered the super deluxe blu-ray version of 2112.

I told you I was an uber nerd!