Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Beautiful interior! Everything is correct vertically and horizontally > illustrating the talent of a photographer who knows how and when to make > use of a super wide lens. > > It doesn't get any better than this for wide angle use. The 15mm is one of > my favourite lenses for shooting interiors and travel photography. > > There isn't any distortion because of a super wide lens like this.... > "when the camera and lens are correctly used!" I suppose one might say, > "well there's distortion because the angle is so wide." Of course that's > nonsense, as long as the camera and lens are perfectly correct, all the > lens does is give one a different point of view and seeing. > > Distortion occurs because the photographer doesn't hold or mount the > camera correctly. That's one of the reasons I have a small level in my > camera bag to put on top of the camera , usually the hot shoe to make sure > the camera is right on the mark straight. But a extreme wide can be used, I often did, in a more creative way without tripod or bubble levels. Let me show you a picture -14mm with film camera- of the Saint Peter in the Vatican where the "baldaquino" or baldachin, the big cover made with brass by Brunelleschi -if my memory is OK-, and the huge dome behind. Hand held of course, I sincerely believe this is another architectural use of extreme wides. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3878057 Regards. Felix