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DeFish settings for Nikkor DX 10.5mm
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 | Tags:
DeFish is a simple Mac OS X program designed for de-fishing photographs taken with a fisheye lens and converting them to rectilinear or cylindrical projections. One of it’s goals was to demonstrate usage of technology already known before fisheye patents were “invented”.
I use DeFish on photos taken with the Nikkor DX 10.5mm fisheye lens. Especially when retouching the nadir (bottom) or the zenith (sky) of a full spherical panorama in Photoshop, you’ll appreciate its existence. Beware that it does not save EXIF data.
I had to search the net and some newsgroups to find the correct settings and parameters for my lens. Therefore I publish them here for those of you who might need it as well. Below are two screenshots of the ‘Fisheye Settings’ and the ‘Perspective Parameters’. You’ll need to change the rotation to 0° instead of 90° whether you shot in landscape or portrait mode.
You can also defish images using other software like Nikon Capture (Mac, Win), Lensfix (Mac) or PTLens (Win). DeFish works just fine for me though.
