#lensmod

This afternoon the weather cleared up nicely after a dull start. So I grasped the opportunity to go out with the PlayStation Portable and the Panavision wide-angle converter that I took delivery of yesterday.  The idea for the wide-angle converter was to use it as a ‘Deakinizer’, a lens invented by cinematographer Roger Deakins that creates an image with a clear centre and blurred edges. I had…

As well as using the Panavision wide-angle converter as a ‘Deakinizer’, holding it reversed over the PlayStation Portable camera lens I also wanted to see how it performed as a super wide-angle lens. The results were … interesting. As with the lens in reverse, I really don’t know that the PlayStation is the best camera to try this with, but I got some lovely fish-eye type views.