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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-08-2023, 01:10 PM
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I know the feeling, even though my count of slides is only in the thousands, but still a lot. During the COVID lockdown I put together a rig with my Oly 12-50mm set for macro and a white plastic disposable cup to give an opaque white backlight. Such a rig doesn't help with time, but the cost vanishes. I consider our current digital cameras to be more than adequate for making copies, if only we can make a working copy rig.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-12-2022, 09:20 AM
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Love them. Especially the first one.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-05-2022, 02:20 PM
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Here are a couple from my lunch break today. Olympus EM5iii, Meike 6-11mm at about 11mm, the less-fishy end. Enjoy.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-03-2022, 11:05 AM
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This is the kind of shot where I really like the fisheye result over what you get with a rectilinear ultra-wide. The clouds in the upper corners look normal, not super stretched out. Nice shot.
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10-28-2021, 10:20 AM
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I'm liking the way the fisheye "lean in" makes the trees look like they are reaching for the sunstar.
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10-09-2021, 06:25 PM
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And you did a nice job of pulling out the shadow detail, for an overall quite satisfying image.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-14-2021, 02:39 PM
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I think I like the additional wave action in the second one. But both are good.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-18-2021, 09:28 PM
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Oly EM5iii + Meike 6-11
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-04-2021, 03:57 PM
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Thanks dms,
I think Fisheye hemi will be getting some $$ from me soon. (I do think their cost is quite reasonable.)
-John
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-04-2021, 01:56 PM
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I recently came back from a pleasant afternoon in the San Gabriel mountains with a few nice fisheye shots, including this one:
But a pine forest has a lot of strong vertical lines which get bent in a fisheye, so I decided to de-fish. Using Hugin and my frequently chosen equirectangular projection I got this:
That is an ok start, but the prominent element of the tree just right of center is getting noticeably up into the part of the equirectangular projection where things are flattened (and stretched horizontally).
The best I could do with Hugin was a Mercator (Mercator?!!) projection, which I then gave an oval crop:
That is not as crunched on top, but now the image has lost the (feeling of) width.
What i would really like is a projection similar to equirectangular, but with a small amount of vertical stretch as one gets farther from the center.
I've noticed that a bunch of you use Fish-eye hemi. I checked their website and it looks interesting. I'd be delighted if one of you that have it showed what it will do on this image.
(Technical details: Meike 6-11mm on E-M5iii (2x crop). Shot at 6mm, but I found that using 5mm in Hugin got the trees straight.)
Thanks,
John
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-25-2021, 02:33 PM
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Steamloco76,
I especially like the pic of the locomotives. You make themfeel big, and charging. I like the combination of the straight, nearly radial,line of the top of the engines with the fisheye swoop of bottom. That plus the “uphill”feel does a great job of conveying the power of the locomotives.
I’m trying to parse how you aimed the camera. You have a lotmore distance on the left, but it sure looks like you are framed center to theroad. Did the road cross the tracks at an angle? I think you have the cameratilted off horizontal so the right side is higher. Or is that all from the roadbeing at an angle?
-John
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fs99,
That is a nice collection of cityscapes, using the fisheye to good advantage. I especially like the straight (because it is centered) Maison du Savoir pole amid the other buildings (and the one on the left looks like it would be interesting even without the fisheye).
-John
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nicolpa47,
Ah "Beach to Sunset"! Just the classic landscape (seascape) that doesn’t shout “fisheye.” Except that FE is the only way to get that wide, and it doesn’t have the stretched clouds of an ultra-wide rectilinear lens. “Falmouth - from Flushing to the docks – Cornwall” does something similar, but peaceful afternoons are not as emphatic as sunsets.
Peace Doves looks like an amazing display. Well imaged.
-John
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-12-2021, 08:24 AM
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For years I have been envying all you Pentaxians your 10-17. So I delighted to get the Meike 6-11 fisheye zoom for MFT. Here are two at about 9mm for a diagonal 180.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-11-2021, 03:59 PM
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Nice. The horizon helps: the trees on the left, & the ridge on the right give some nice secondary points of interest. And the non-obvious fisheye features are at work: huge depth of field, roundish pumpkin stays roundish, and you can get in the top of the tree.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-07-2021, 03:33 PM
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Oly EM5iii + Meike 6-11mm with oval crop
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05-07-2021, 09:15 AM
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05-06-2021, 05:33 PM
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Thanks. I'll give it a try. But first off to dinner.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-06-2021, 03:23 PM
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Mostly, this is a post to test including a link. In this case to an old shot on Mt. Pinos is SoCal using a Raynox x.24 fisheye adapter.
https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-g2p3KLC/0/e97937b5/L/i-g2p3KLC-L.jpg
So, is the image visible, or just the link?
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Darn, looks like it only shows the link.
Do any of the more experienced of you know if there is a way to show a pic without including it as an attachment?
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-25-2020, 01:00 PM
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Awesome shot Greg! I love it.
I assume you did some HDR to get all the tones to show. It works well.
-John
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-26-2020, 05:11 PM
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Hi,
The JTree picture was taken with a Minolta D71 with the Raynox fisheye adapter, ISO 100, 30 seconds, f2.8. And then I did a mess of post-processing, including lightening it up a BUNCH, and manually accentuating & adding stars.
-John
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-17-2020, 06:57 PM
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Hi,
My first suggestion is to read back through this forum. You will find lots of uses for a fisheye, which have various levels of "fishiness" to them. Also, enjoy that zoom range. At the long end, the lens will make a wonderful ultra-wide lens, with very little fishiness to it, but with what is sometimes a more pleasant distortion than an ultra-wide rectilinear. As a micro four thirds shooter, I've been envying all you Pentax folks your zoom-fish lens. I'm about 10 days into owning the Meike 6-11mm. Given what I have been doing cropping a 180 diagonal fisheye, I'm looking forward to using my new zoom-fish, especially in landscape situations.
-John Paul
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-09-2020, 03:55 PM
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Thanks,
Yup, that is Yosemite. That is one of my more recent shots with the Samyang 7.5mm diagonal 180. So I didn't have to give it the oval crop, but I liked it better that way.
I remember seeing lots of portraits given the oval treatment, but not much more. I would love to have it as an in-camera croping option.
-John Paul
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-09-2020, 02:25 PM
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Hi,
I've been owing y'all this post forquite a while. I found the forum around the time I got my diagonal180 fisheye (Samyang 7.5mm for MFT). That was back at the beginningof 2015. The forum was good enough that I went back and read it fromthe start, and have followed it ever since. So, yes, I have read all243 pages. There is some good art in this forum. As one of you said awhile back, the forum is wonderful for showing that fisheyes are goodfor more than “making the nose of your dog look weird.”
Pentax? I had a K1000 from 1983 until Iwent digital just after the turn of the millennium. My first fisheyewas an add on adapter, the Raynox DCR-FE180 PRO .24x. I got thataround 2005. On the 28mm equivalent wide end of my Minolta Dimage A1,that gave me a 180 horizontal image. Same fov when I went to FourThirds and then Micro Four Thirds. This is the round sides, flat topand bottom image. I see a few such images here on Fisheye Fever. WhatI don't see much (any?) of is what I prefer to do with such croppedimages. I do an oval mask. I like the result a lot better than theraw “parentheses” shape ( ). As it stands, I'll use the oocparentheses shape for first-pass selections, but the firstpost-processing a good image gets is to get the oval mask. I like itenough that I occasionally use it on images from my diagonal 180Samyang 7.5.
So here are a few such pictures fromthe archives as a thanks to all of you. …
- John Paul
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