It depends on your goal, but all-in-all you'll find that the cropped center of an FE can't compete with a good rectilinear lens. Looking through the gallery on Pbase, the digital shots are mildly distorted, enough to suggest a bad lens rather than a fish-eye effect.
In my initial query to Amita I was looking for creative ways others have used the extreme FE effect (on film or FF digital) to really add to the image beyond the superficial goofiness. Not that the goofiness is bad, but I already have another 180° rectilinear wide-angle that I can use to get plain vanilla wide shots. For example, some of the shots here where made with the Zenitar: <http://www.arinahnell.com/01-04-04/index.htm> This was the point I made in a separate thread about choosing the MZ-S over the *istD: The crop factor is something I don't like, so I'm waiting for a FF digital solution, which, I admit, may be a ways off and will be expensive. But I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. Tim On 12/2/04 5:44, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > The idea of using only the central portion of the fisheye seems like a good > way to go with a camera like the istd. Still, I'd like to see some pics > comparing this lens (and the Zenitar) with similar focal length rectilinear > lenses, like the Pentax 14mm, 15mm, and the 16mm side of that zoom (16~45?) > that's available for the istd. > > Shel > > >> [Original Message] >> From: Don Sanderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> He's saying that on the ist D you are only >> using the central portion of the fisheyes >> image circle where the effect is the least. >> This reduces the 'fisheye' effect and the >> results look more like a distorted WA shot >> than a true fisheye shot. >> I'm just now playing with the Zenitar >> 16/2.8. >> If I compose carefully the shot looks like >> a very WA shot with little fisheye effect. >> On a 35mm this would not be the case. >> >> Don >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Amita Guha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> What's your point? >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Peter J. Alling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>> The large majority of photos in the sample were shot with digital >>>> cameras that produce between a 1.3 to 1.7 crop factor. When you take >>>> that into account the fisheye doesn't show much line bending at all >>>> since you've taken only the center portion of the image. > >>>>> http://www.pbase.com/cameras/sigma/15_28_ex >>>>> >>>>> There are 674 of them. Have fun. :) > > > >
