Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Felix!! This is one drop-dead, gorgeous photo!! It's one of the finest I've seen shared with the list. I suspect that Ted will argue that you have exerted the most exacting control of the perspective of the ultra-wide. I will agree in advance. Thanks Ric Carter http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies On Nov 18, 2005, at 9:20 AM, F?lix L?pez de Maturana wrote: >> Beautiful interior! Everything is correct vertically and >> horizontally illustrating the talent of a photographer who knows >> how and when to make use of a super wide lens. >> >> It doesn't get any better than this for wide angle use. The 15mm >> is one of my favourite lenses for shooting interiors and travel >> photography. >> >> There isn't any distortion because of a super wide lens like >> this.... "when the camera and lens are correctly used!" I suppose >> one might say, "well there's distortion because the angle is so >> wide." Of course that's nonsense, as long as the camera and lens >> are perfectly correct, all the lens does is give one a different >> point of view and seeing. >> >> Distortion occurs because the photographer doesn't hold or mount >> the camera correctly. That's one of the reasons I have a small >> level in my camera bag to put on top of the camera , usually the >> hot shoe to make sure the camera is right on the mark straight. > > > But a extreme wide can be used, I often did, in a more creative way > without tripod or bubble levels. Let me show you a picture -14mm > with film camera- of the Saint Peter in the Vatican where the > "baldaquino" or baldachin, the big cover made with brass by > Brunelleschi -if my memory is OK-, and the huge dome behind. Hand > held of course, I sincerely believe this is another architectural > use of extreme wides. > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3878057 > > Regards. > > Felix > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information