My birthday next Tues ( presents and cards welcome ) , ... So Ssshhh... has got me a Samyang 8mm fisheye and i know a few of you guys have em or use similar, can't wait till next week to use it on a splore or 2, the thing is tho what if you want the widest of angles but NOT the curvy side of things, it seems there is a plethora of methods but i didn't wanna spend an age on all of em , I accidently bumped into some info on flickr that i thought that was soo good and free i would share it with you lot.
According to flickr user "xxk89xx" one must first download a program called Hugin , dont know if you lot know it i didnt but i downloaded it from
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/download/
never ran it, just installed it then this guy has wrote 2 ace scipts that both solve the curves in a different way, they can be downloaded here....dont worry guys I have and no viruses or anything .
http://www.mediafire.com/?h4qhxdnc3ta0lrz
Now make a folder on your machine and place the images you want to DEfisheye put the 2 bat files you just downloaded in the same folder, this is the only complicated bit , right click on each of the bat files and edit it with note pad on the second line is how wide your image is change it to match yours and the same for the 3rd line for how tall your image is (if you using canon DSLR 's APC's i.e 550d 50d 60d 600d 7d etc you dont need to change anything) then save as file type NOT txt .
Now just double click on either script it will create a new directory with all your un-fished pictures in it! works great as below each creates its own solution I feel now i have 3 new lenses not 1 !!!
Here is the original freaky funky fisheye..
After the Panini script's magic... pretty good how it dealt with it, image is same size only minimal edge loss there is still distortion on the horizontals but not as freaky as the fish
The rectilinear version creates a more bizarre outcome but may suit some shots quite well, more edge/cropping has been lost but still remarkable albiet strange perspective alteration
Cheers , if this is in the wrong place please move or if not applicable to site then remove, just thought i i'd share as i see a few fisheyes on here and one of my mate's just recently sold his , maybe he wouldn't have if he had seen this method?
According to flickr user "xxk89xx" one must first download a program called Hugin , dont know if you lot know it i didnt but i downloaded it from
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/download/
never ran it, just installed it then this guy has wrote 2 ace scipts that both solve the curves in a different way, they can be downloaded here....dont worry guys I have and no viruses or anything .
http://www.mediafire.com/?h4qhxdnc3ta0lrz
Now make a folder on your machine and place the images you want to DEfisheye put the 2 bat files you just downloaded in the same folder, this is the only complicated bit , right click on each of the bat files and edit it with note pad on the second line is how wide your image is change it to match yours and the same for the 3rd line for how tall your image is (if you using canon DSLR 's APC's i.e 550d 50d 60d 600d 7d etc you dont need to change anything) then save as file type NOT txt .
Now just double click on either script it will create a new directory with all your un-fished pictures in it! works great as below each creates its own solution I feel now i have 3 new lenses not 1 !!!
Here is the original freaky funky fisheye..
After the Panini script's magic... pretty good how it dealt with it, image is same size only minimal edge loss there is still distortion on the horizontals but not as freaky as the fish
The rectilinear version creates a more bizarre outcome but may suit some shots quite well, more edge/cropping has been lost but still remarkable albiet strange perspective alteration
Cheers , if this is in the wrong place please move or if not applicable to site then remove, just thought i i'd share as i see a few fisheyes on here and one of my mate's just recently sold his , maybe he wouldn't have if he had seen this method?