Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/18

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Subject: [Leica] #395
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Fri Nov 18 14:00:55 2005
References: <200511172259.jAHMtpdV006135@server1.waverley.reid.org> <437DE31B.8090909@telefonica.net>

Rules are made to be broken: well broken, a stunning image, but one 
rule you did stick to was keeping a symmetry to the image, which helps 
"soften" the distortion of any super wide.

Cheers
On 19/11/2005, at 1:20, F?lix L?pez de Maturana wrote:

>> 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
>
>
>
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Alastair



In reply to: Message from FELIXMATURANA at telefonica.net (Félix López de Maturana) ([Leica] #395)