At 03:39 PM 5/8/00 +0900, Sean Chan wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>Does anyone have a sample photo taken with a Zuiko 21mm F2 please?? I'd
>like to check out the severity linear distortion (if any) before
>plunging
>in $$$ (or Yen in my case) for it.
Sean:
Try this photo of mine at the Unofficial Oly Gallery:
http://www.enable.org/~gallery/subpages/wood/metro01.html
It's cropped some, but not that much. I was surprised to see that there was
relatively little distortion (as I remember, it looked like a lot more in the
viewfinder...) Of course, the impressions of distortion depend entirely on the
subject matter and framing -- I think I got lucky in this shot. One thing I
*do* try to always do with a 21mm is keep the imaginary horizon line running
through the horizontal centre of the image, as well as keep it level (by this I
mean, no tilting to the left or right). Mind you, this rule can be creatively
broken (and has been many times, though not by me -- I consider myself woefully
non-creative...) Sometimes you get a lot of garbage in the lower half of the
picture, but you can always crop it. This next image shows what I mean:
http://www.enable.org/~gallery/subpages/wood/tallhouse.html
Here's two others:
http://www.enable.org/~gallery/subpages/wood/abbey.html
http://www.enable.org/~gallery/subpages/wood/eiffel02.html
Good luck. For what it's worth, I absolutely love the 21mm, but like I said,
choose your subjects. Sometimes I found myself rapidly switching between the
21/2.0 and the 28/2.0 for effect differences.
Garth
"A bad day doing photography is better
than a good day doing just about
anything else."
The Unofficial Olympus Web Photo Gallery at:
http://www.taiga.ca/~gallery/
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