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Re: [OM] Do 21mm Zuiko's give you fish-eye effect?

Subject: Re: [OM] Do 21mm Zuiko's give you fish-eye effect?
From: "Mickey Trageser" <mickeytr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:04:47 -0800
WOW!! 12mm? How do you keep your ears out of the picture? ;-)
Thanks for the description. Makes a lot of sense.
--Mickey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Do 21mm Zuiko's give you fish-eye effect?


> >Is rectilinear equal to full frame? The Tokina 17mm is full frame.
> >-Mickey
>
> The way I understand it is that 'full-frame' is a fisheye which throws
such
> a large image circle that it fills the 35mm frame rather than producing
the
> 'peephole' effect - you get a rectangular section of the centre of the
> fisheye image. 'Rectilinear' means that some attempt has been made to
> correct the distortion so that you get a more 'natural' looking image.
> "Rectilinear" suggests, as a word, that the lines in the image conform to
a
> rectangle - aren't bent too much at the edges of the pic. The Voigtlander
> 12mm is corrected but I would find the width pretty terrifying, especially
> on a rangefinder.
> Andrew
>
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