Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]While, along with a lot of things, I can take or leave them, I liked Olmsted 6918 as the sprinkling of humanity gives the image a lot more meaning than the usual nondescript landscape shots. Generally, I feel wide angle is great for property sellers (realtors) who want to create delusions of grandeur amidst the banality of the normal... Douglas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aram Langhans" <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org>; "Leica Reflex" <LeicaReflex at freelists.org> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 7:18 PM Subject: [Leica] New Toy > Before we went to the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, I ordered a fisheye > lens. Unfortunately, it did not come in time, but I kept it anyway. I > tried to use it on our trip home and here are a few examples. > > From Yosemite, at night. Moon was almost full, so not many stars. view > large, please, so you can see them. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f15/y/Night+Stars-6951.jpg.html > > A few from Olmsted point. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f15/y/Olmsted+Point-6918.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f15/y/Olmsted+Point-6913.jpg.html > > And one from above Bishop in the Eastern Sierra Mountains. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f15/es/Bishop+Canyon-6775.jpg.html > > Kind of fun. Not for everything, mind you, but interesting. I bough the > 12mm/2.8 Rokinon for Nikon mount. Not without it?s faults, but worth the > money. > > Comments welcome. > > Aram Langhans > (Semi) Retired Science Teacher > & Unemployed photographer > > ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself > would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information