In a message dated 2/7/2005 10:38:34 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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 like it. I think the fisheye works this way. And I like her better in this venue. The context gives me more oomph. Marnie aka Doe
