> On Jun 17, 2019, at 3:16 PM, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 17/6/19, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> https://flic.kr/p/2gfSHBc > > To my mind this shot illustrates the wide angle perspective very well. Am not > convinced the others do. How wide is this lens exactly? Are you using it on > one of the Leicas?
That kind of photo with the "vanishing line" perspective is a very typical wide-angle shot. I thought it was an entertaining view, if not particularly exciting or different. My goal in using an ultra-wide like this, generally, is to avoid making the fact that it's a very wide angle perspective obvious and to allow the geometries of the subject to interplay in a way that renders the subject in a somewhat unusual way. For instance, the rather simple photograph of the bicycle, fence, and power transformers I posted yesterday takes these three elements and makes them two dimensional in a way that a longer lens cannot. What isn't evident from that is that the distance to the subject I made the photo from was less than six feet. Similarly, the tree I posted yesterday was photographed from less than 15 feet away, which exaggerates the near-far perspective quite subtly. The lens is a 10mm focal length imaging onto APS-C format (16x24mm) in the Leica CL. The FoV of this combination, cropped to a square using the 16mm leg of the format, nets a field of view which is 77x77 degrees HxV … just a little wider, actually, than the Hasselblad SWC camera produces. The lens is extremely well corrected for rectlinear aberrations: there is virtually none, just like the Hasselblad's Zeiss Biogon 38mm, and has incredible detailing right out to the corners on APS-C (and even on FF format—I tested it on the Leica M-D typ 262 this morning). The full rectangular frame on APS-C is equivalent FOV to a 15mm lens on FF format, essentially … very very wide indeed. The more I work with this camera-lens combination, the happier I get with it. The quality is right on the money, the FoV speaks to me, and I see things with it that I often miss with less extreme setups. G — No matter where you go, there you are. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
