[RockyZ]

Just got a wide angle lens as my birthday gift. I just took some pictures with it and realized that I get these black edges:



is there any way to fix this? I don't plan on switching cameras anytime soon nor do I want to refund this lens.

[jcortes]

im preatty sure that thats how a wide angle lense is supposed to be. some one correct me if im wrong but it basicaly creates a round image to aquire all the extra things around wrather than a streight view.

[turtile]

Fish eyes shouldn't get black on the corners. There should only be distortion.

Which camera and lense is that?

[wakeboarder.cwb]

do you have any filters attached to the lense? or a lense hood? if so make sure they are properly attached.

[RockyZ]

there is a UV lense, it is properly attached, I tried taking it off and taking pictures, I still get the same results. The len is a opteka HD² high definition conversion lens on a olympus C-5050.

It came with a low quality made-in-China adapter(the lens was made in china also, whatever), so I replaced it with a Japanese one of the same length, I don't really think that has to do with anything.

[turtile]

The lense filter is most likely to small so the edges show.

[joshd]

i thought the whole point with fish eyes was that they DID make black edges, due to the round image?

[turtile]

Originally posted by joshd
i thought the whole point with fish eyes was that they DID make black edges, due to the round image?

Here is what they should look like:

http://www.pbase.com/cameras/nikon/10_5_28g_dx

[greeny leafy]

your lens hood is too big, and is causing a vignette.

[RockyZ]

don't have a lens hood :/ Just the adapter and the lens. Still haven't fixed this problem!