Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The best thing about this is that you can make the images rectilinear in post processing and end up with a wide angle of better optical quality than the zoom at the wide end, because the fisheye does not have all the optical compromises built into it to try to keep distortion down. It may even come with a plug-in to do this. Marty On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:12 AM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> wrote: > Not a fish eye Nathan - just 1mm narrower than your 7-14 at the wide end > ;-) > But stealthier > DK what the guys at DPreviews were thinking of ... > ph > > Le 1 juin 10 ? 23:28, Nathan Wajsman a ?crit : > >> >> Very real! After my trip to the US last week I have 408 images to work on, >> after culling the losers on my laptop during the trip. All taken with the >> GF-1. But the fisheye is of little interest to me. Too specialized to >> spend >> this kind of money. >> >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> http://www.nathanfoto.com >> >> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Jun 1, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote: >> >>> Dang, this thing's turning into a real camera system, which makes >>> decisions of how to spend money a lot more complex now..... >>> >>> Philippe posted: >>> >>> >>> http://dpreview.com/news/1006/10060101Pana8mmFisheye.asp >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > NO ARCHIVE > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >