On 5/23/05, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.mindspring.com/~webster26/PESO_--_tiftew.html
> 
> When I was re-taking "Working Boat", I brought my el-cheapo Vermer
> 12mm.  Here's a shot I liked.
> 
> Of course there is a lot of color fringing which adds to the softness in
> the corners of the image..  It's amazing that this
> lens' image circle matches a full frame fisheye for an APS frame
> exactly, since the format wasn't in existence when it
> was designed, and as a semi circular fisheye on 35mm it doesn't bear
> real close examination.
> 
> http://www.mindspring.com/~webster26/PESO_--_tiftew.html
> 
> Vermer 12mm f8 fisheye @ f16
> Pentax *ist-D iso-400 1/500sec.
> 

I think it's a pretty cool shot.  The wall, more of less bisecting the
frame, the rounded horizon, the puffy clouds and blue sky. 
Interesting use of perspective, interesting geometry.

cheers,
frank

-- 
"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept."  -Henri Cartier-Bresson

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