everytime i take a picture with my camera, with a fish eye lens on it, i get a huge shadow from the lens in it

Question

I have a Canon a610, and i recently bought a fisheye lens for it, but it is pointless because, every shot that i use the flash. I get the stupid shadow of the lens in the shot, and then theres a huge circle of black over the picture.

Is there anyway to fix this?

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Turning the flash off, defeats the purpose, I am always taking pictures at shows, they don't have nice lightening, ever. The pictures blur, and it is very dark.

Answer 1

I think this will solve your problem.You need a flash off camera. go to this link
http://www.adorama.com/ICAHFDC1.html#Canon-HF-DC1-High-Power-Slave-Flash-for-S3-IS,-SD700-IS,-SD630,-SD600,-SD430,-A510,-A520-&-Most-other-PowerShot-Digital-Cameras.

Answer 2

The first answer is right, whether or not you like it. Fisheye lenses are just not designed to be used with flash and you will always have the problems you describe. In fact, it is difficult to use lenses of over 28mm (35mm focal length) with a flash without 'vignetting', or the corners of the pictures appearing darker. Flash only has a limited spread widthwise. There is nothing you can do to fix the problem. Lesson. Always ask before committing yourself to an expensive purchase whether what you are buying is suitable for the use to what you wish to put it.

Answer 3

the on camera flash does that, time to invest in umbrellas and lighting equipment, and disable the on camera flash.
it really agrivates me, i have the same problem, and i just shot some rooms i decorated...i was being rushed and didn't really get a chance to look at my shots untill we left the home and now i'm just a bit on the mad side over all those beautiful rooms with this huge shadow screwing things up...