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Laowa Venus 210° 4 mm fisheye on EOS M

Started Nov 24, 2019 | Discussions thread
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Kjeld Olesen
Kjeld Olesen Veteran Member • Posts: 4,588
Laowa Venus 210° 4 mm fisheye on EOS M
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Hi

Wanting to try out the 210° angle of view of the Laowa Venus 4 mm for making 360° horizontal panoramas from a single image. As the Venus 4 mm fisheye is not available for EF-M (November 2019) I decided to make a MFT to EF-M mount modification myself.

Here is now the lens mounted on the EOS M:

Laowa Venus 4 mm f/2.8 fisheye mounted on Canon EOS M

I finished the conversion just today, and though the sky was not forthcoming, I wanted to try out the lens and the image conversion to panoramic straight away

So, here is first an image from the Danish Parliament directly from the lens

Venus 4 mm image as captured by a Canon EOS M5

This image was remapped to Horizontal and then stretched vertically using RectFish

The image remapped to 360° horizontal panorama - from a single image.

I will be making alterations to RectFish to enable the full remap in a single process, if other users of fisheyes with higher than 180° angle of view should be interested.

The full lens modification can be found here .

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