Jim and Art: Jim, I thank you for posting the very interesting side by
side comparisons. I don't see very much difference. Am I missing
something? As compared to their Hasselblad cousins, do the other Arsat
lenses perform as well? Certainly the price points are apparently very
much in favor of the Arsat lenses.
Thanks.
Elliot
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Hemenway" <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 4:34 PM
Subject: [LRFlex] The World... I mean ultrawide, is not enough!
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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