Pentax 10-17mm fisheye lens

Posted on April 24, 2008 - Filed Under General, News, Personal, Technology

lets see if i can remember how to do this blog thing 🙂 its been a while just updating you on my camera stuff i went out and bought a Pentax 10-17mm fisheye lens (or is it fish eye ?) the other weekend i had been tossing up between that and the Sigma 10-20mm wide angle lens it was a hard decision and took me a while so far i have only played around with it, learining what works and what doesnt and there is a lot that can go wrong first off it is a fisheye and so has inherent distortion, bending any horizontal or vertical lines that dont run through the centre also the field of view is so great you have to be careful what gets included in the photo, your feet for example or tripod legs, camera bag, fingers on the focusing ring the wide view can also easily introduce the sun into the photo which can affect the exposure and also cause increased contrast with shaded areas coming out really black, with totally white skies the minimum focus distance is about 25mm from the front glass, and things look a lot further away when looking through the viewfinfer, so i often touched flowers i was trying to photograph with the front glass. the closeness also means you can easily include your shadow or the lenses shadow but once you have all that figured out it is a great, fun lens 🙂 and i am really enjoying it so far i havent taken it off my camera, I am really happy with my purchase, i just need more practise with it, weekends are to short lol i have some photos on my web site, in the "experimental" section lol, I may move them once i am no longer experimenting 🙂 . you can take a look here :- http://www.johndolphin.net/photos/categories.php?cat_id=61 i would of posted pics but i cant remember how i am such a bad blogger 😉

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