[Leica] The View From My Office-

[datamaster at northcoastphotos.com (Gary Todoroff)]

Most fun lens I've ever used, the 7-14mm/4 Zuiko. Wonderful resolution, too,
as seen by your photo B.D. My last Lympa Log page shows a photo with it at
the extreme wide end (7mm).
http://www.northcoastphotos.com/Lympa_2006_04_21.htm

The kind of depth you can get in landscapes with this lens has no evidence
of the "tricky" look super-wide can often show.  At f22 and 7mm, you
probably get about as much depth of field as a pinhole!

B.D. - this is a lens where you centered the horizon purposely in order to
minimize vertical distortion, not to break good composition rules! If you
pointed it down in your scene, then the buildings would have appeared to be
leaning into the bottom of the picture. You know that, but I thought LUGgers
might appreciate that any lens like this can get weird on you when you don't
shoot level with it. And sometimes off-level is the fun of this lens, too!
Gary Todoroff
(Tree LUGger)

> -----Original Message-----
 Robert Meier
> B.D. -- This has remarkably low wide-angle distortion.   The edges of the
> picture are not stretched outward.   I am impressed with this lens.   Bob
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:32 AM
> Subject: [Leica] The View From My Office-
>
>
> > As seen with the 7-14 f 4 on the Oly E330 - iso 100 - matrix metering;
> only
> > PS adjustment was my standard intake sharpening. No curves
> adjustment; no
> > color adjustment. No additional sharpening. Shot at f8 at 7mm - 35
> > equivalent of 14 mm.
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album333/OfficeView
> >

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