Wide Angle Lens HELP!

I've Been Looking for a wide angle lens for a 37mm digital handicam,
I'm kind of new to film and photography. Most of the .45x lenses I've
looked at are fisheye lenses, are all .45x lenses fisheye ? or are
they diffrent from just normal .45x wide angle lenses. Also Is the
lower the number (.45x) the wider the picture or do I want one with
the highest number (.6x)?. Also at what point has the least amount
of noticable distortion.

see http://medfmt.8k.com/bronfe.html on superwide lenses; smaller number
(.42X is wider than 0.6x..) is wider, more distortion typically... hth
bobm
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