John...A beautiful "grab" shot and thanks for the explanation...Marty
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From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Two Truths and a Lie
> At 11:13 PM 6/16/03, you wrote:
> >John...Enjoyed visiting your gallery and was especially taken with
> >"Odoriferous" shot...Just great...I have a question on "We're Finally
> >OK"...The lens was a 50mm f/1.4...What is the 0.18 Fisheye auxiliary
> >lens?...Martin
>
> Thanks,
> The amaryllis one was a "grab" shot done on the spur of the moment. The
> aux fisheye is a very old Kenko. Another company badged these things, but
> I cannot remember their name. May have been Spiratone. Had one of them a
> few years ago. They were essentially the same design, and I suspect they
> were actually made by the same company several years apart (there were
> slight differences, but not much). They come up regularly on the eB*y, or
> at least did come up a number of years ago. They're not the sharpest,
> especially around the edges. I use it with the with the Mamiya M645
> now. For some reason, it's sharper in combination with the Sekor 80/2.8
> than with the Zuiko 50/1.4 lenses.
>
> If you go looking for one, ensure it comes with an adapter plate,
> preferably for 49mm filter ring. New, they came with three: 49mm, 52mm
and
> 55mm, but most people threw away or lost the two they never used. For the
> Mamiya's 58mm ring, I use the 55mm adapter with very sturdy, brass B+W
> 58-55 stepdown ring, and it's better to step down from a larger filter
ring
> to a smaller adapter size than step up to a larger one (doesn't move the
> aux lens as far from the primary one). Slow, permanently focused at
> inifinity and fun to play with, but optically they're most *definitely* no
> substitute for an 8mm prime.
>
> -- John
>
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