De-Fishing Fisheye shots using Mac and Aperture???

Took a recent tour of Southern Ireland and it was my first serious attempts at using a true (as opposed to adapters) Fisheye lens.

I got the lens because I like the distorted perspective but in another thread someone showed me a "de-fished" version of this shot.
Any suggestions for plug-ins or software to play with "de-fishing"?
As I said in the title I recently switched to a Mac and Aperture.
Thanks, Steve

Steven Wandy said:

Took a recent tour of Southern Ireland and it was my first serious attempts at using a true (as opposed to adapters) Fisheye lens.

I got the lens because I like the distorted perspective but in another thread someone showed me a "de-fished" version of this shot.
Any suggestions for plug-ins or software to play with "de-fishing"?
As I said in the title I recently switched to a Mac and Aperture.
Thanks, Steve

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Here is link for DxO

http://www.dxo.com/uk/photo/news/DxO-Optics-Pro-new-lens-camera-combinations48

Link for description of DxO features

http://www.dxo.com/uk/photo/dxo_optics_pro/features

Jim

For Aperture plugins, you can go to the source.
http://www.apple.com/aperture/resources/plugins.html

I got PTLens for my 12-60 on its 12 end. It does a good job but I seldom use it. It also has some manual adjustments for fisheye. Nothing sophisticated like DxO I presume. You have to make sure your lenses are covered by the application you are buying. PTLens doesn't seem to be so up to date. At least not mine. Anyhow this is what I was able to do with your shot.

I use the fisheye hemi plug in from image trends. Normal rectilinear conversion stretches the image away from the center and then crops back to the normal dimensions - this causes a huge loss of resolution. The image trends plug in remaps the image in a different way, it isnt true rectilinear, but it also doesnt destroy resolution. Another great thing about image trends is that it is specifically designed to make people look normal where as regular rectilinear conversion will make people look huge and fat.

it works perfectly in Aperture

http://www.imagetrendsinc.com/products/prodpage_hemi.asp

here are some samples and comparisons

first the straight from camera fisheye shot



now here is the same shot converted with normal rectilinear conversion software



please noticed how stretched and fat things have become and also notice how mush has been cut off the sides

Now here is the Image Trends version



look at what is on the edges in the original and you will see that it is still here in this shot and the lighthouse is nice and straight without being stretched now look at the rectilinear conversion and look at the roof of the building and the detail and compare that with the image trends version

personally Image Trends fisheye-Hemi is the only software I will use to "straighten out" fisheye images

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NEX-7 & Sigma 30mm f/2.8
NEX-5 & 18-55 OSS
And a spare black 18-55

+1 for Fisheye Hemi.

Taken with OM-D & Rokinon 7.5mm FE

Before de-fish operation:



After de-fish with Fisheye Hemi AP3 plug-in:



No-brainer, best out there.

Nikko

Thanks will check out the trial version of it.

40% sale on Image Trend software now, use the coupon code "Last40"

Takes the price of Hemi Fisheye down from $30 to $18.