----- Original Message ----- From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi"
Subject: Re: GESO: eyes wide open - learning to use the 15mm
There's no denying that making good compositions with ultra-wide lenses is difficult work. After a year or more of using a 15mm lens with my Leica cameras, I decided that 110+ degree diagonal FoV was simply too much. About 90 degree diagonal is a much more useable. On 35mm cameras, I stepped back to 20-21mm; on the Pentax *ist DS, the 14mm is my ideal for ultrawide, like with this photo of Arundel Castle in the UK:
For general use on 35mm, I also found anything wider than the 20 was really too wide to control, the only time I use the 15 on film is as a last resort of the incompetent, when everything else I have tried hasn't worked. If you need it's FOV, then nothing else will do, but I admit to trying to find pictures that don't demand that much FOV.
William Robb
