Fishy

[Jos]

I have a friend with a museum of lenses and he is happy for me to borrow them, the best news is that he has also bought a 5D2 and has gotten adapters to make most of them fit the Canon EOS body!
Today he brought a nice Asahi Pentax Fish Eye Takumar 1:4/17 for me to play with. Nicely wide on the full frame chip




I can have it for a while so I'll see what else I see over the next few days...

[mesodan]

Looks like fun, Jos! Looking forward to some cringe-worthy portraits.

[rjd]

Looks like youir average christchurch building?

[Jos]

I've had those kinky columns for 19 years now, I like the non straight angles.

[Jos]

Few more from the walk to work this morning, quite fun taking quick grabs as I can't muck around too much as I'll be late!
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Japanese gardens in the Whakatane Rose Gardens



small bridge in the Japanese bit



The flax dyeing pool



The salt marsh, the planet is round, see



Kid's playground



Rusty chain at the yacht club, can't tell it's a fish eye from this



The green wharf near my shop, I like the way the lens bends stuff



And a selfie in the studio, not as distorted as I expected, this is a crop though



and the french deli across the road





This beaut little lens even has interior UV, yellow and orange filters, nice.

[Adam]

Good stuff bill. I loved my fisheye. Wish i'd not sold it...

[peedee]

I am jealous.

If the Samyang or whatever its called 8mm was suited to FF, I would have one. Its not as if you need AF on a fisheye!.

[rjd]

Never saw the point on a crop body but a ff gives you a much better option

Not sure I will ever own one but they are fun lenses for the right shot

[Jos]

No not at all, this is totally manual as it's on an Pentax-EOS adapter ring, a bit of a mission, but it has markings to lign up to set it to f8 at mid focus that seems to work pretty well. On a tripod with live view there'd be no problems at all.

[Jos]

Compulsory up tree shot with a wide lens on walkies to workies