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OK here is the lens still in the box a TTArtisan 11mm F2.8 fisheye/Ultra wide lens
What is a fisheye lens you may ask, well its a lens with a 180 degree field of view and there are two types

A circular fisheye lens – typically captures light from 180 degrees in all directions and projects a complete hemispherical image onto the camera sensor, producing a circular image on a black rectangle.
A Full-frame fisheye lens – projects the hemispherical image beyond the sensor producing a rectangular image of the scene, but one which uses the sensor’s full array of pixels. The field of view is reduced, though still extremely wide.

this lens is the rectangular type so it down catch the circular fisheye look, but is more of an Ultra Wide lens which is what I was after as in some spots even with the widest lens I had it was hard to catch a full shot of something's particularly some buildings.
I ordered the lens through Amazon, another justification for calling this a market Friday post as I did buy it.

It was relatively cheap at $235, the cheapest lens I have, well not quite I do have a vintage Helios lens that only cost $50

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OK now back to the photos taken in the historic District downtown here in New Bedford , walking up one of the cobblestone streets

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The next shot is to show how the image looked as it came off the camera, as you can see there is a curve effect on the image which I could easily straighten in Lightroom

This is a manual lens, where you have to set everything your self no auto this or that, including the aperture and I was trying different settings since it was the first time using this lens and hence the ? for the aperture setting as I didn't note down what it was set to on the lens when taking them, which I probably should have.

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And further up the same street the Moby Dick Restaurant

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Now the next photo is here to give a tip

When out taking photos its good to be observant of your surroundings, in this case it was early morning and there was hardly any traffic on the street, and I was taking long exposure shots of 30 Seconds, and here is how I relate to being observant as I said there was hardly any traffic, but I stayed alert and while taking this image noticed a car coming down the road behind me, and had to quickly pick up the camera and move off the road.
The shutter was still open and hence the weird light effects in this next image

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And that’s all folks

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