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What is the difference between a wide angle lens and a fish-eye lens?

A fish-eye lens is a 180-degree lens, what you see with your eyes the lens will pickup. The lens has an amazing short focal length, from an element at the edge of your lens to the stars above all of this will be in focus. The distortion that is inherent with this lens can be taken advantage of either as humor or artistically. The use of this lens with its large field of view will create unusual perspective with ordinary photographs. If the warping of an image distracts from the desired result there is software available that compensate for that, often a simple cropping of the photo will suffice. With practice, the use of a fisheye lens will give a photographer a useful tool to provide character to a photograph. The wide-angle lens is used by photographers when the want to make the primary subject the focus of the view. This can be done by making the photo element looking bigger in relation to the other objects. When the subject is farther away, it will blend into the background and when there is no one subjects the wide-angle lens will put a lot element into your image. With this type of lens, the depth of field is larger than any other lens so keeping the background simple will keep the subject the primary object. Whether the photograph you want to take is inside a room, a large crowd shot, or a panoramic vista the use of a wide- angle lens would be a good choice.

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