Loving these fish-eye lens type views of your last few posts, but I notice they're only 22mm? Not exactly ultra wide angle as the fish-eye distortion would suggest. Am intrigued.....and what Ian said! ;-)
17 Jul 2008 4:37pm
@Stu: Thanks, Stu! I'm somehow not surprised that you are commenting in the middle of the night given your penchant for night shots. I think you must be some sort of noctrunal beastie.
As to the Zenitar fish-eye lens, it's actually 16mm. My camera, though, registers it as 15mm and puts that in the exif. It then puts 22mm as the 35mm equivalent which is what the Am3 engine uses when parsing the exif data for Pentax cameras - don't ask me why.
In any case, 16mm isn't all that wide for a fish-eye lens when used on a dSLR with an APS-C sensor (it's actually about 24mm in 35mm terms), however it is nevertheless a super-fun lens to shoot with because it has this ability to make it look as though you are simultaneously looking straight ahead and to the side - like a fish's eye!