Extreme Wide Lens: A roll of film

[Bryce]

Shooting with the normal lens wide open draws attention to itself too, making the majority of the scene impossibly blurry.
Gimmick/ garbage too?
As for round frames, this is more how the human eye really sees than a rectangular crop of just the central part of the scene. So maybe round frames are hard to buy, but...
I've only fiddled with a cheap 'semi-fisheye attachment, and quickly stopped. That is just because I never found appropriate scenes to use it on.
Since, I've been more than happy to use a 15mm rectilinear lens very routinely, so why not fisheye? Go, Raid.
Taken with the 15mm, and maybe a bit gimmicky- but the hiking group loved 'em!

 

[Bryce]

How bizarre... the two color images in the previous post are not mine and not something I asked to have attached to the post!
Anyone have an idea what might be going on?

 

[raid]

I have used the fisheye lens as a change from using non-fisheye lenses. I always aim at exploring other approaches in photography. It certainly is not a lens that I would regularly use, but it can give very interesting looking images.

I still favor using the 50mm lens over any other focal length lens.

 

[raid]

I'll check out of this thread, out of respect to Raid and to keeping his thread on-topic. 🙂

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Hi Ray,

Please don't waste your computer time on a topic that you don't like.
Thank you for the respect showing but I don't want to bear the burden of boring you here. It's just an exploration to me.

 

[ywenz]

it's like looking into one of these:

You loose interest very quickly..

I'm not fond of almost all un-cropped fisheye images.

 

[RayPA]

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I was wondering whether such fish-eye images are too extreme or not. Would this lens be a good option for a travel lens?

Come on, Raid, my response is well within the contents of this topic. 🙂 I think I more or less answered the question you asked above.

If my previous posts weren't clear enough for you to get/derive my answer to the question then Yes it's too extreme and No it's not a good option for a travel lens. If you think otherwise, more power to you, shoot your fish-eye and lug it around with you on your travels, but you asked for opinions. 🙂 You're right I'm not going to waste my computer time getting into a p* match about the differences between shooting a normal lens wide open and a fish-eye lens. I know that's a distinction you can make. You're too fine a photographer. I'd seriously like to beg off this thread, now. Enjoy.


🙂

 

[mw_uio]

What comes to my mind when fish-eye extreme wide angle lenses is the cover of "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" "Are You Experienced" US cover.

Source: Wikipedia


Cheers 😀

MArk
Quito, EC

 

[raid]

Ray,

I make my own decisons regarding photography, but I still like to get opinions and suggestions from my fellow RF members here. This applies also to negative remarks. I really was initially considering the fisheye lens for a trip, but I will not go through with it.


"You're right I'm not going to waste my computer time getting into a p* match"

A p*match most likely refers to a photography discussion. Right?

 

[shadowfox]

Raid, your arms must be tired having to lug the door around for the walk. 😀

 

[Glenn2]

Have resisted the urge to buy a fishy lens, but sometimes make use of a silvered 2 litre round bottom flask for circular images.... ;-) Find that I get much more use from a rectalinear lens, wider the better. Here's one with the CV 15mm and silver orb technique.

Link to another done with D200 & 20mm.... http://gallery.photo.net/photo/6147054-lg.jpg


Glenn

 

[raid]

Raid, your arms must be tired having to lug the door around for the walk. 😀

lol

I did not want to comment on "that comment".
A fisheye lens is not equivalent to a fisheye mirror when it comes to photography. As you correctly mentioned above, it would be rather cumbersome to haul around a mirror.

Some commenters may want to consider is the fun factor in photography. It is OK to have fun with taking photos once in a while and there is no need to take everything dead seriously.

Cheers.