If that weren't enough, the FE-5020 and FE-4000 also include "Magic Filter" functionality (which some might call "tacky filters, " if the fish eye lens and sepia tone effects aren't really your bag).

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Earlier, Steve had used the DSLR with a fish-eye lens to get some extraordinary video footage crossing the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Combining a standard camera view, with a second wider view, filmed with a "fish eye" lens, it has been used to film a short live action film called Broken, as well as the Kill Mode animation.

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Instead, the adventurers went fairly low-tech, using an off-the-self digital camera and fish-eye lens the same tools Google's Business Photos program has used to capture the interiors of more than 100, 000 businesses since it launched three years ago.

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Additional new features include HDR panoramic, which takes wide-angle, or "fish-eye, " shots that normally require an expensive digital single-lens reflex camera.

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