Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]it's just not practical to correct everything in photoshop. you want to show the client the best you can without having to undistort everything. example: if i shoot 50 interior shots in a house with wide angles i really only want to finalize in cs3 what the client selects. if they look all bent up and distorted and hazy from wide angles, guess what, the client won't want any of them. i'm trying to turn my m8 into a income producing camera instead of an income sucking camera and good performance with wide lenses is one of the things i need it to do. the cv 15 is ok, but it's not great. it is better than any of the wide nikon/tokina/canon glass i have used. mark, i'm sorry, i didn't realize that WATE meant wide angle tri elmar. i thought it meant wide angle terribly expensive. leo On 11/4/07, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > Barrel distortion, the heartbreak of BD can be easily remedied now a days > in > Photoshop. You can not read a lens review anymore without the guy, Thom H, > or Ken R. telling you the exact coordinates to punch in to take out the > barrel distortion that a new nikon zoom will have at a certain focal > length > (FL). > The time will come soon that lens designers will just say "we'll just let > them fix the rest in software" and go home for dinner and give you a CD or > URL so you can more easily punch them in. or they will be punched in > automatically as part of the way the raw file thing works. > > > I just shot a thing which came out today in the NYTimes in which I used > instead of the blissful no stress 12-24 f4 zoom I'd been using for 5 > different things. I used an: > AF NIKKOR 14mm f/2.8D ED > > Quite a chuck of high tech glass. Leica priced almost. > > http://nikonimaging.com/global/products/lens/af/wideangle/af_14mmf_28d/index > .htm > > : > Hybrid aspherical lens elements and ED glass elements for high-resolution > and high-contrast images > Used as 21mm (converted to 135 format) wide-angle lens when attached to > the > Nikon DX-format digital SLR's > RF (Rear Focusing) system for fast and smooth optical performance > > > I think it made a difference. It doesn't even look all that wide angle at > all in many of the shots I've been repeatedly told I assume since it was > so > well corrected. > > I wonder if the fact that it was meant to work well as a 14mm lens and > then > we're chopping off the outside 1.5 edges of it to make it a 21 is a big > plus > in its performance. Like a baseball batter swinging with two bats then > taking one away and stepping up to the plate. > Its a heavy lens. A TCP Tunnel Carpel protagonist. > A Tylenol is needed before and after heavy use. > And or well placed helium filled balloons. > Gary Fong makes one I think. A frosted one you can flash through. And > lightens any load. > LumiQuest makes one with a built in pump works with Hydrogen if you know > where to get it. > > Pump it up too big on a windy day and watch your camera fly over a tree > and > get caught in a telephone wire. > > > My spell checker suggested "LumiQuest" was really "Cumquats" just now. > > I'd call that fuzzy logic. > >From the fuzz in someone's navel. > > > > > > > Mark William Rabiner > markrabiner.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Leo Wesson Photographer/Videographer 817.733.9157