On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 17:47:30 GMT, "Tony Spadaro" <tspadaro@ncmaps.rr.com> wrote:

> I would hardly expect much from a door peeper. I once found one of those

>auxillary fisheyes at a garage sales. IT reduced the focal length of any

>lens by about 50-60 %. Needless to say, it was fairly useless except for

>special effects -- I do wish I still had it though. I have no idea what

>became of it.

I have shelves full of WA converters for use on video

cameras, where many of the "El-Cheapo" ones made for

35mm can be excellent (for video, if not for stills - though

a couple of these do work well enough for 35mm stills

if the lens is stopped down to f16 or so). I never did

get the Spirotone version - but it was unusual in that

the aperture ring to be used was on the converter and

not the prime lens. It was not very sharp, though, and

it does not work on video camera zoom lenses at all...