Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Alastair