What the Helier 15mm can be capable of >

[pizzahut88]

The Helier 15mm is not to be underestimated!
The lens is not expensive, comes with a viewfinder, small and light, easy to carry along as an extra . . . and yields results which could be quite surprising!

http://viking-manfred.blogspot.com/2007/03/gps-n22-1-42-e-114-9-311.html


So I think for any Voigltander user, getting the 15mm is a must if you are not going to get the 13mm, or unless you have enough bunnies to get the Zeiss 15mm!

Manfred

 

[ronnie_retro]

A stupendous shot! On my screen I don't see any converging verticals. Were you actually able to position the camera to avoid this, or is it a photoshop fix?

Again. a shot to be proud of.

 

[jtm]

Is that picture from an R-D1 (RD-1?), or otherwise quite cropped? It doesn't look especially wide to me.

 

[40oz]

looks great!

If you position the camera so the film plane is vertical, you shouldn't have any converging verticals in the image. It's when you point the camera up at a building that you get that.

 

[Xmas]

If you also rotate the camera so the 36mm frame edge is vertical you can get more of the sky scrapers in frame but you can only use a 18x24mm frame so the lens does not apperar to be as wideangle, sneaky.

Noel

 

[wyk_penguin]

No converging verticals, but lots of unpleasant stretching. IMHO, buildings are best left for shift lenses.

 

[Bryce]

A shift lens would have done the same thing.
And you'd need a 15mm shift lens to take that image unless the frame was narrowed. I've never seen a 15mm shift lens for sale, am I missing something?

 

[wyk_penguin]

Nope. I was missing something.

 

[Finder]

Actually, the tall building is becoming less and less sharp as you get to the top. I am not sure that I would be surprised by that result.

 

[sickdickandthevdubs]

I'm I the only one who noticed the photo was posted with a GPS location. Wow, now that's a technical marvel. 😱