Re: [OM] Re: wide-angling

[John A. Lind]

At 18:20 9/12/00 , Skip asked:
[snip]
>Anybody used the 18mm Zuiko regularly?
[snip]

Yes!
  http://johnlind.tripod.com/oly/gallery/om52.html
  http://johnlind.tripod.com/oly/gallery/om63.html

These are just a couple, plus my TOPE 2 "Night Picture" (top row third right):
  http://www.web-wizards.com/olympus/tope/gallery.html

There are others not scanned or in the galleries.  I try to tripod the
camera when using it.  It's too easy to get a noticeably tilted horizon
with a lens that wide.  Other problems are whether a scene will support
using a lens that wide.  Two issues with super-wides:
(1)  Angle of view so wide that it takes in something not very photogenic.
(2)  The image depth is very great.  Those high-rise buildings in the TOPE
2 are between a mile and two miles away (if that far).  The added depth of
a super-wide will diminishes their size considerably.  Same thing happens
with tall mountains unless you're almost at the base of them.  For a
comparison, look at the TOPE 2 and then look at this one with a 50mm f/1.4
standard from nearly exactly the same spot (used the tripod divets left in
the pavement from before).  It was the one from which the vision for making
the TOPE 2 photograph developed:
  http://johnlind.tripod.com/oly/gallery/om44.html

The buildings look much taller and much closer as they really are!

-- John

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