Fisheye on 23 mm lens

[Graham Todd]

I have a camera with a 23 mm lens and I was wanting to get a fisheye for it. I could not find anyplace that sells 23 mm fisheyes
I found on google that you could buy a 24 mm lens and use a 23 mm adapter ring?
I could not find any place that has a 23 mm ring

does anyone know where do get one?
or is that even the way to install one?

thanks

 

[Brian Boston]

BH photo, get a 23 to 24mm step up ring.

 

[Graham Todd]

I could not find one on that site? Nor on any other camera site either.

btw, if i did get the step up ring would a fisheye even work on the camera i have?

Panasonic SDR-s7

 

[Brian Boston]

The lens itself 23mm, it has no mount. You can't put a fisheye on there unless you were to glue a filter or stepring to the camera and screw the fisheye onto that. You could probably just get a like 30-37mm stepring, hotglue it to the front of the camera, then screw a 37mm fisheye such as a kenko into that. I never did it myself, so you are on your own.

 

[Matt]

Do what Brian said, but use JB Weld instead of glue. I used it on mine and it works great

 

[Graham Todd]

Alright thanks guys I will probably give it a try.
Sorrry for the noob questions haha.

Btw if I did this with an akenko lens would there be any/alot of vig?

 

[Brian Boston]

Prob none because the lens is so small compared to the fisheye

 

[Graham Todd]

Alright thanks.
I'll let you guys know howit works.

 

[blaine142]

i have the same exact camera. i bought a kenko for it. cost me 50 bucks for a kenko and the step up ring, bought a 30mm to 37mm step up ring and took shoe goo and glued the threads on to the camera works GREAT!!

 

[Graham Todd]

i have the same exact camera. i bought a kenko for it. cost me 50 bucks for a kenko and the step up ring, bought a 30mm to 37mm step up ring and took shoe goo and glued the threads on to the camera works GREAT!!

Sweet man. Im really pumped to try it out.
btw, you know on the camera at the bottom of the lens it gets smaller?
did you have to like file the step up ring down? or does it still fit?

 

[IsaacEdmonds2]

i have the same camera too! its quite a good one but a fisheye is a problem