A break in the erratic weather gives me the opportunity to use a new acquisition to my lens collection, so it's off to the local pier in the search of some graphic images. Fisheye optics have limited appeal, and persistant use can quickly diminish the impact of such lenses, but used judicially they have a place in the photographers bag. One virtue of such extreme optics is the fact that I don't have to worry unduly about converging verticals or level horizons as the distortion inherent in the lens banishes the straight line, except for those at the centre of the image. There is software available to correct such aberrations, but that would be boring, would it not?
10.5mm f/2.8 Nikkor fisheye. 1/100 second at f/13. +0.5 exposure compensation. ISO 200.
© 2008
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