My "fisheye" fills the entire frame, so only has a 140 degree field of view.
But, as it's built into an overgrown body cap (perhaps 3/8ths of an inch deep,
my problem is keeping my fingers out of the shot!
David.
Thanks for looking and commenting, Ted.
I am just trying it out on many different types of things to see what it
can do so I can make better judgments as to what I like and what I don't.
It was fun playing around in the rocks. I have photographed there many
times before, but this gave me a way of looking at things in a bit of a
different way. Since the rocks are quite curved anyway, the distortion
just plays into what is already there.
One thing I noticed there is that it is hard to avoid getting people in the
photos. They would move aside waiting for you to take a photo, and I would
still wait because they were still half way in the frame. At 180 degrees
diagonal, it is hard to eliminate unwanted things, so I guess you just try to
include them in a different way like in 6918.
It is also hard to not get your feet or a tripod in the photo if you
angle the lens downward. I have a lot of peripheral feet shots.
Aram
From: Ted Grant
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 12:53 PM
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [LRflex] Re: New Toy
HI
Aram,
Once
one gets a fish-eye lens to "play with?" J
Yep some images..... "the trees in the forest don't quite cut it for me."
L
HOWEVER?
Love the rock formations! Why? Well they look "COOL!" IMAGINATIVE! Strong!"
And
just plain neat visually!
Yes
there are/will be those who dislike them due to the strong distortion! But
that's what makes them look "COOL" and imaginative, rather than the so called
"every Friday flower stereotype image!"
When
I purchased a lens of this type for the Leica SLR's, I let my imagination run
wild and ended up with some well paying assignments from likeminded art
directors and photo-editors.
There
are all kinds of neat images one can capture that appear quite imaginative.
Certainly if you throw all the so called photo== composition etc. rules and
fixed ways of "how a good photo is supposed to look?" out the window and go
with
your gut feelings.
Of
course one still must take care not to overdo it, simply because the effects
don't always produce a neat looking photo. "Strange maybe?" Or you find
yourself
"over doing it" and using the lens too often on subjects it just doesn't work
with. Different? But the distortion becomes an eyesore!
Have
fun with it! J
cheers
ted.
From:
leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Aram Langhans
Sent: November-16-15 11:18
AM
To: lug; Leica Reflex
Subject: [LRflex] New
Toy
Before we went to the
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, I ordered a fisheye lens. Unfortunately, it
did not come in time, but I kept it anyway. I tried to use it on our trip
home and here are a few examples.
From Yosemite, at
night. Moon was almost full, so not many stars. view large, please, so you
can see them.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f15/y/Night+Stars-6951.jpg.html
A few from Olmsted
point.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f15/y/Olmsted+Point-6918.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f15/y/Olmsted+Point-6913.jpg.html
And one from above
Bishop in the Eastern Sierra Mountains.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f15/es/Bishop+Canyon-6775.jpg.html
Kind of fun. Not
for everything, mind you, but interesting. I bough the 12mm/2.8 Rokinon
for Nikon mount. Not without it's faults, but worth the
money.
Comments
welcome.
Aram
Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed
photographer
"The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than
Darwin himself would ever have dared dream." James D. Watson
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