fish eye lens

[Brian Jones]

check out the “Wide angle spherical distortion…” thread just down the page

[Adam Trachtenberg]

[Brian Jones] “check out the “Wide angle spherical distortion…” thread just down the page”

In addition to what was mentioned there, you can also model a wideangle lens, give it a transparent material with a refractive index of 1.5-1.6, and render the scene looking through the lens. You’ll have to use Best AA because the transparent material kills Object AA.

[Frank Steffenhagen]

or use a plug-in: https://wfcam4d.multimeios.pt/plugin.htm

Frank