Lomography FishEye
Introduced in 2005 the Lomography Fisheye One is everything you could want and less.
The Fisheye One was released as just the Fisheye but a second version was released later as the Fisheye No. 2. The Fisheye is a plastic 35mm camera with a fixed 10mm lens. Fixed lens in every way: fixed to the camera, fixed focal length, fixed f8 aperture and fixed 1/100 of a sec. shutter speed. Once you load the film, the only real control you have is flash on or off.
The 10 mm lens gives a super wide 170 degree field of view. Wide enough, you have to mind you fingers holding the camera. It also give a very close focus distance. So all you have to do is point it at something.
My take:
I did not know what to expect. The view finder is not much help. It is obscured by the lens and does not have a fish eye prospective so it is not much more help than just pointing.
The images were Lomography signature, plastic lens quality. Clean enough but not overly sharp. The center is less distorted with the edges rounding out. It does not deliver a true round image because the 35 mm aspect cuts the top and bottom flat and you get the rounded image on the sides.
If you like toy cameras and or strange formats, the Fisheye is a nice find. But don’t expect any control. Just point it at something. One advantage of the distorted format is it makes ordinary things more interesting.
Lens: 10mm f8.0
Film: Fujicolor 200
