[LRFlex] Re: The World... I mean ultrawide, is not enough!
- From: Thomas Schofield <tdschofield@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:00:56 -0800 (PST)
Does the Arsat come in Rollei 6000 mount?
Tom
Jim Hemenway <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Art:
I'll let you decide that yourself. Here's a comparison I did several
months ago between the Arsat and the F-Distagon. Both are 30mm fisheye
lenses for medium format.
http://209.197.89.228/ArsatDistagon
Thanks for telling me about that Soligor.
Jim
NATSTEK@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Jim,
>
> How is the Arsat lens? I've heard that it's very sharp and contrasty.
>
> As far as using a fisheye on medium format, I have an old Soligor
> fisheye converter lens with a .15 conversion factor. This is the high
> dollar one with its own diaphragm that's adjustable. I have several
> adapters for it including bay 1 & bay 3 adapters for use on rollei twin
> lenses, or my Yashica mat 124G. I first mount the lens on the viewing
> lens, focus, and then transfer the lens to the taking lens and shoot.
>
> With the conversion factor of .15, the 75mm camera lens becomes an
> 11.25.. lens! This is a circular image fisheye. I've used it on a 90mm
> Summicron to get a nearly full frame 13.5mm. A 100mm gives 15mm.
>
> These are fun lenses if you can find them. They were made under several
> manufacturer's names, but were all high quality construction with
> adjustable apertures and a lens size/f-stop conversion scale so you
> could figure effective aperture settings for pretty much any lens that
> you mounted the conversion lens on to.
>
> Art Tafil
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