At 17:41 18/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
>At 01:41 PM 10/18/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>I used to use the full-frame fisheye (say that 3 times, fast) quite a
>>bit (especially when I was travelling for Bendix). It has several
>>obvious uses:
>>
>>1. When you just _have_ to get everything in.
>>
>>2. When you deliberately want to distort the image.
>>
>>3. When the lines and shapes in the image become more "interesting"
>>because of the distortion.
I was able to get out with it again yesterday, to a river estuary where
there were mudflats, a right-angle bend in the river, and dunes beneath a
sky with some interesting clouds. With the horizon positioned in the
centre it stays flat, but the sky and the landscape were very interesting
to say the least! I can see myself using this lens a lot. Tilting the
camera to produce obvious distortion can be fun too.
>Yeah, the trick, if you want to just use it as a super wide-angle, is to
>keep lines out of the corners. In the shot you mention, mostly sky and
>grass is in the corners of the image, so there's nothing to distort...
Yep - featureless landscape is fine, but a ploughed field took on a rather
bizarre appearance :-)
>
>For the real fish-eye flavor, try a shot of a row of office buildings, or
>similar, and then you'll see distortion.
It worked well on a local windmill, too...
>BTW, Pop Photo had an interesting article a couple months ago about using a
>16 fish as a super-wide angle. Their technique was to crop a strip thru the
>middle of the image, throwing out the corners, and therefore any
>accompanying distortion...
A rather closer approximation to a panorama than most APS offerings ;-)
>
>Regards,
>
>Denton Taylor
I looked at your website over the weekend - nice pix of the Brooklyn Bridge
with the 16!
Regards
Richard
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