Originally posted by Groucho The Samyang can definitely give pretty distorted images, though....
What it did to that ship is stupendous!
I get that there are ways to decrease some kinds of distortion with fisheye lenses, though that may often be by increasing the distortion of something else by choice of framing, But if someone complains about distortion when using a fisheye lens, isn't that like a diner saying that this or that type of fish tastes too "fishy." (Does anyone say a steak tastes too beefy?)
I get of course that their might be too much fisheye distortion for the way one wants to capture a subject. I get that different full-frame fisheye lenses might offer choices of how much and what kind of distortion to use, and making those lens choices are about creative decisions serving a picture.
But isn't the typical fisheye lens, by definition, a tool of distortion, imposing on the world,
or drawing out from the world around us a kind of plasticity, a kind of previously unseen potential for change and movement? And don't people who want to flaunt their fisheye photos love that about the fisheye lens type?
Or is there something I am completely missing when people talk about de-fishing images or reducing the distortion like it's something to avoid?