: being, having, or produced by a wide-angle photographic lens that has a highly curved protruding front, that covers an angle of about 180 degrees, and that gives a circular image
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The cameras can record up to 2K, and footage is crisp and detailed enough to zoom in on, though there is a mild fish-eye effect.
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Simon Hill, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2025
It’ll be shot medium format with a fish-eye lens all perfect — that alone is a craft in itself.
—Lee Spielman, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
By our count, there are six cameras on the front, first a horizontal line of four cameras, then a giant fish-eye lens, then one more small camera.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 17 Apr. 2024
And then Niland brings up dessert, which at his Sydney restaurant can often mean fish-eye ice cream.
—Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
His exaggerated, fish-eye lens suggests pornographic Monty Python drawings (or Tim Burton for pervs).
—Armond White, National Review, 23 Feb. 2024
The ultra-wide camera does a good job of fixing fish-eye distortion for inanimate objects, but people on the edge of the frame sometimes show stretching.
—PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2024
Robbie Ryan’s cinematography captures all this with an attention to color and light that’s magical, along with Lanthimos’ customary penchant for the intermittent skewed view of a fish-eye lens.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
The first mobile-phone cameras lacked the resolution and quality of stand-alone digital cameras, often taking distorted, fish-eye photographs.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2020
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Simon Hill, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2025
It’ll be shot medium format with a fish-eye lens all perfect — that alone is a craft in itself.
—Lee Spielman, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
By our count, there are six cameras on the front, first a horizontal line of four cameras, then a giant fish-eye lens, then one more small camera.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 17 Apr. 2024
And then Niland brings up dessert, which at his Sydney restaurant can often mean fish-eye ice cream.
—Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
His exaggerated, fish-eye lens suggests pornographic Monty Python drawings (or Tim Burton for pervs).
—Armond White, National Review, 23 Feb. 2024
The ultra-wide camera does a good job of fixing fish-eye distortion for inanimate objects, but people on the edge of the frame sometimes show stretching.
—PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2024
Robbie Ryan’s cinematography captures all this with an attention to color and light that’s magical, along with Lanthimos’ customary penchant for the intermittent skewed view of a fish-eye lens.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
The first mobile-phone cameras lacked the resolution and quality of stand-alone digital cameras, often taking distorted, fish-eye photographs.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2020
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“Fish-eye.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fish-eye. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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