Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dick, Nice shots. I too just got a 15 Heliar. I've enjoyed exploring its limits. One weird thing that I've found is that the viewfinder for the lens shows far more distortion than what shows up on the image. That, the few rolls I shot with the lens seem to demonstrate that so far. I'm excited about one roll I have at the lab now that I shot almost completely using the heliar. Can't wait to see them. This lens is shaping up to be quite a good value. Frank Farmer Jackson, Miss. On Feb 1, 2006, at 8:27 PM, Richard S. Taylor wrote: > I got a 15 mm Heliar from Stephen Gandy a couple of weeks ago. This is > the first time I used a really wide lens. It's been a gas. The > strange perspective is fun to play with. I was about 5 feet from the > tree in the first photo. > > I used Ted's trick of framing in the 15 mm finder then levelling with > the internal framelines before taking the picture. It worked - most > of the time. Some levelling required in PS in a few. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/3_02A_0075_web > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/2_00_0042_web > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/2_07_0049_web > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/2_23A_0065_web > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/3_16A_0089_web > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/BOSTON/3_33A_0106_web > > > 02A, 16A and 33A are of the Cape Cod Canal; 00, 07 and 23A were taken > at Marblehead Light. > > Comments welcome as always. > -- > Regards, > > Dick > Boston MA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >