Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted Grant wrote: > Graham showed how a wide angle lens should be used correctly! :-) > Subject: [Leica] #395 > >> Leica M2 : 15mm Voigtlander Heliar : Agfa Vista 200 >> > http://www.geebeephoto.com/2005/05395.htm<< > > > Hi Graham, > 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. > > And obviously the camera is on a tripod. > > Damn it sure is a fine photograph because of your technical ability to > use equipment correctly. > ted > > Ted, It's a beautiful picture, but I disagree with you. There is distortion - at least to my eyes - my FOV isn't that wide so it isn't what I would see. Therefore it appears un-natural to me and hence a distortion of normal viewing. True there are no barrel distortions on the pillars, but that is in part because of the camera - pillar distance. Peter Peter