Re: OT: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-07 Thread Michel Carrère-Gée
Joseph Tainter a écrit: For this class of lens it is quite sharp plus a lot of fun. I have enjoyed mine much. It is sharper than Pentax's F 17-28 fisheys. A mine friend has a Zenitar (for Nikon), and I have a K 4/17mm fish eye. Both seems near similar quality. Michel

Re: OT: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-06 Thread Joseph Tainter
For this class of lens it is quite sharp plus a lot of fun. I have enjoyed mine much. It is sharper than Pentax's F 17-28 fisheys. JOe

Re: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-05 Thread Gianfranco Irlanda
not corrected wrt this... Every full frame fish eye of the same FL will show more or less the same distorsion. Hope this helps. Ciao, Gianfranco - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been think about getting a Zenitar fish eye (16mm). Screwmount, it would work on my Canon

Re: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-05 Thread Eactivist
Hope this helps. Ciao, Gianfranco Yup. Sure does. Thx!, Marnie aka Doe :-)

Re: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-05 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Subject: OT: Zenitar Fish Eye? I've been think about getting a Zenitar fish eye (16mm). Screwmount, it would work on my Canon Elan 7e (with the adapter that I already got for the Super Tak 35mm 3.5). Evidentially higher priced/better fish eyes have a lot

Re: OT: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-05 Thread Doug Franklin
Hi Marnie, On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 01:12:49 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been think about getting a Zenitar fish eye (16mm). [...] Complete waste of time or not? I have one and I've been very happy with the prints I get from it. It does have a lot of distortion, but it's a fisheye so I

Re: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-05 Thread Bill Owens
I'm only using the central portion of the image. Bill - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 1:12 AM Subject: OT: Zenitar Fish Eye? I've been think about getting a Zenitar fish eye (16mm). Screwmount, it would work on my

Re: Re: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-05 Thread scars
: To: Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 1:12 AM Subject: OT: Zenitar Fish Eye? I've been think about getting a Zenitar fish eye (16mm). Screwmount, it would work on my Canon Elan 7e (with the adapter that I already got for the Super Tak 35mm 3.5). Evidentially higher priced/better

Re: OT: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've been think about getting a Zenitar fish eye (16mm). Complete waste of time or not? Hi, I have owned the Zenitar (K-mount) and it's a good lens for the money, if you are able to get it for a good price, of course, and get one that has a good build quality. However, the lens is a very

Re: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-05 Thread Chris Brogden
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, William Robb wrote: I had one for a while. I found it to be quite sharp, and surprisingly, not overly flarey. I thought the colour rendition was a bit garish, it might fit in well with Canon lenses in this regard. I found a good deal on a Super Takumar 17mm fisheye, and

Re: OT: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-05 Thread mike wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been think about getting a Zenitar fish eye (16mm). Screwmount, it would work on my Canon Elan 7e (with the adapter that I already got for the Super Tak 35mm 3.5). Evidentially higher priced/better fish eyes have a lot less distortion, etc., etc. But it might

Re: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-05 Thread Katrin
On 5 Nov 2003 at 13:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Katrin, I remember those banana trees! Kewl shot. thanks ^_^ I know that I posted them some time ago, but since you asked about the zenitar... I didn't have much time recently, but I hope I find the time to give the zenitar a bit