On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:48:26 -0500, 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
That's in interesting shot. I like the way you've got the salesgirl (sorry, salesperson) off in the corner, seeming quite small and insignificant (but quite an important part of the photo). The blank look on her face is quite telling. One thing that I like about my fisheye, is that people have no idea they're in the frame, as they're 45 degrees or more from the centre axis of the lens. Easy to catch them unawares. Yup. I like it a lot. Good shot, fun lens. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
