[Leica] The View From My Office-

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

B. D. Colen offered:
Subject: Re: [Leica] The View From My Office-


> I, too, am impressed. But as all of you have been telling us about this 
> and
> similar lenses, DAMN but you have to line up the edges of your shot
> correctly. You can't just take grab shots with something like this and not
> expect them to  look like something from the fun house.:-)<<<<

Hi B. D.,
Absolutely!! I find in many cases people who go on about distortion with 
super-wides don't have a clue how to use the lens in the first place.

But a simple hand holding manner with some practice this works beautifully. 
While looking through the internal viewfinder using the sides of the 
viewfinder to line up vertical lines as one is composing, 99% of the time 
the picture looks great! Practice makes it a whole lot better!

And if you require a lower perspective..... bend your knees!! Don't tilt the 
camera down! Obviously a slightly higher angle, climb up on something to 
gain the height, don't tilt the camera up!

The least bit of tilt down or up and the picture is screwed... period~!

That is unless you want distortion, then go wild and tilt it way up or down, 
that puts a completely different perspective beyond reality and it's 
accepted by the eyes.

A miserable little mis-handling and you'll be whining all over the place 
that this lens has distortion. When in fact it's the idiot handling the 
camera!

ted