For all the times you'd actually use a 35 Shift (yes, I have one), you
should consider using a 21mm or 24mm and correcting the perspective issues
digitally. I use Panorama Tools http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/,
which will correct even a 16mm fisheye's image to rectilinear. It will
also remove pincushion and barrel distortion. It's a lot cheaper than the
hassles you're contemplating (it's FREE!).
Skip
At 10:40 PM 6/24/00 +0200, you wrote:
Hi all,
at the moment I`m in a hard zuikoholic decission, and would like to know
what you think about it:
A local dealer offers a mint Zuiko 35mm F/2.8 Shift. Serial-No. 106xxx
black nose and
seems to be a MC. He wants DM 1099.- ( DM : $ ~ 2:1 -> $550).
Because I can`t afford such a sum at the moment I thought I`d trade some
of my 16 lenses for it.
I thought with 4 lenses and a flash should be fine. I stopped trading when
he offered 550.- DM for
equipment, I payed about 1400.- in total ( I can`t carry more equipment in
my bag!).
Now it seems I`d have to trade these items to reach the necessary sum for
the Shift:
Zuiko -T 2.8/135 + Telemore 2x
Zuiko-Z 4/65-200
Zuiko-Z 3.5~4.5/35~195
Oly.flash F 280
Vari-magni-finder
Zuiko-S 1.4/50
Soligor Zoom 4~5.6/60~300 - A nice lens, but undervalued.
I bought it new, so I´ve a lot of monney loss with it.
(Maybe my Zuiko-W 2.0/35)
I`ve payed about DM 2150.-(2550.-with 2/35) for all that equipment. Now
I´ve seen that
the price for a new 2.8/35 Shift would be 2311.- here in Germnany. So I´m
not sure
I´d make a good deal. I already planned to reduce my equipment a bit,
but the 35~105, or the
2.0/35 are two lenses I wanted to keep.
What are you thinking about it? Does a Shift equal such a lot of
equipment, even
if most of`em aren`t what I always use?
thanks,
Frieder Faig
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