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Subject: [Leica] OT: Lumix MFT 8mm is out
From: dmorton at gmail.com (David Morton)
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 03:26:31 +0100
References: <9F07836ED74F1C42AA69DFBAF8A1E2F13A2AB68257@MBX1.asc.local> <770C9943-C8CB-4CD5-946C-F71170204B2F@frozenlight.eu> <D0552962-5200-47A1-BB8E-E77E8892E841@sfr.fr> <AANLkTilb_6zHmcdcLcrmxOA4nddCyRjzdBJkNYT3VQTx@mail.gmail.com>

I've yet to use one but I anticipate one problem with 180? AoV would
be remembering to pull my tummy in before pressing the release?

On 2 June 2010 01:13, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote:
> The best thing about this is that you can make the images rectilinear
> in post processing and end up with a wide angle of better optical
> quality than the zoom at the wide end, because the fisheye does not
> have all the optical compromises built into it to try to keep
> distortion down. ?It may even come with a plug-in to do this.
>
> Marty
>
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:12 AM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> 
> wrote:
>> Not a fish eye Nathan - just 1mm narrower than your 7-14 at the wide end 
>> ;-)
>> But stealthier
>> DK what the guys at DPreviews were thinking of ...
>> ph
>>
>> Le 1 juin 10 ? 23:28, Nathan Wajsman a ?crit :
>>
>>>
>>> Very real! After my trip to the US last week I have 408 images to work 
>>> on,
>>> after culling the losers on my laptop during the trip. All taken with the
>>> GF-1. But the fisheye is of little interest to me. Too specialized to 
>>> spend
>>> this kind of money.
>>>
>>> Nathan
>>>
>>> Nathan Wajsman
>>> Alicante, Spain
>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>>> http://www.nathanfoto.com
>>>
>>> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0
>>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>>> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 1, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dang, this thing's turning into a real camera system, which makes
>>>> decisions of how to spend money a lot more complex now.....
>>>>
>>>> Philippe posted:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://dpreview.com/news/1006/10060101Pana8mmFisheye.asp
>>>>
>>>>
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In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] OT: Lumix MFT 8mm is out)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] OT: Lumix MFT 8mm is out)
Message from philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard) ([Leica] OT: Lumix MFT 8mm is out)
Message from benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney) ([Leica] OT: Lumix MFT 8mm is out)