I like it, technical limitations aside (and invisible on my laptop monitor). The high rows of white-labelled cannisters pull the eye around the whole image, scarcely pausing at the cabinet in the center of the frame. That object makes the space seem smaller and more crowded than it otherwise would. Nice!
--- "Peter J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems the subject of a couple of my latest pesos > has gotten a job at > the local coffee house... > So Cannon Girl has become Coffee House Girl. > > The main purpose for this image is to see what I can > do with my Vemer > 12mm f8 fish-eye. > First I'll describe the lens, it's a solidly built > early 1970's > ultrawide. T-mount, which means > that you lose nothing in operation when using it on > the *ist-D. > Program, Tv and Manual modes > all work as expected. This is designed for use on a > 35mm camera as a > semi-circular fisheye > which makes it a full frame fisheye on an APS > sensor. > > http://www.mindspring.com/~pjalling/PESO_--_cgbchg.html > > This is a surprisingly good lens, it is however no > SMC-P 17mm Fisheye. > Nothing is exactly sharp, the > lens depends on DOF for focus, there is no focusing > helical, and at f8, > it's widest aperture, as you can see > even in the reduced size photo for the web only the > center portion of > the frame really looks in focus. There > is also a pronounced color fringing that becomes > worse the further from > the center of the frame you look. I'm > not sure if this comes from chromatic aberration of > from poor color > correction. Still this lens and it's sisters, > (made by Sigma and sold under a number of different > names, from the mid > 1960's to mid 1970's), seem to be the > only full frame fisheye solutions available to those > of us shooting the > *ist-D and maybe even the Canon and Nikon > APS frame digitals. > > Technical Data > Pentax *ist-D ISO 1600 shutter 1/10sec > Vemer Fish-eye ultra-wideangle 1:8 f=12mm @ f8 > > As usual comments are welcome but may be totally > ignored. > > -- > I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. > During a war you get to drive tanks through the > sides of buildings > and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually > frowned on during peacetime. > --P.J. O'Rourke > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com
