I've already told you what I thought of your abbey image but I'll say it
again... drop dead gorgeous! And definitely like the Eiffel!
RonS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Garth Wood
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 10:52 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] Sample Zuiko 21mm F2 shot??
>
>
> 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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