There are waterfront apartment towers (very expensive housing I am sure) near where I was watching the cormorant. Funny thing was one of the first floor windows often has a dog sleeping lazily just inside. One time I happened to set up the tripod next to the spot, and when I packed up the tripod and stuff and looked around, it had woken up and was looking at me curiously.
Thanks to Raphael for the trip to shiny Rayfact land, Scott for the visit to Williamsburg Trades, and
Colin for the vistas from Helvellyn, and Grasmere. The local news claimed at 9am that Grand Rapids Michigan had the worst air quality in the United States today. They said I should stay indoors so I worked on a defishing plugin problem that is partially solved. It was worth it - IMO - YMMV.
LR defished photo (posted before) using the 16mm f2.8 AF lens profile
The original fisheye photo with no transforms applied
James Markus wrote:
Thanks to Raphael for the trip to shiny Rayfact land, Scott for the visit to Williamsburg Trades, and
Colin for the vistas from Helvellyn, and Grasmere. The local news claimed at 9am that Grand Rapids Michigan had the worst air quality in the United States today. They said I should stay indoors so I worked on a defishing plugin problem that is partially solved. It was worth it - IMO - YMMV.
For me the second one looks the best (the “real” fisheye). In the others the sun(stairs) are too munch distorted.
James Markus wrote:
Thanks to Raphael for the trip to shiny Rayfact land, Scott for the visit to Williamsburg Trades, and
Colin for the vistas from Helvellyn, and Grasmere. The local news claimed at 9am that Grand Rapids Michigan had the worst air quality in the United States today. They said I should stay indoors so I worked on a defishing plugin problem that is partially solved. It was worth it - IMO - YMMV.
I agree Chris. I wanted to see how wide a rectilinear image I could get out of the Nikkor 16mm f3.5 ai fisheye. It appears you can get a good approximate 17mm pov image out of the 16mm fisheye with fisheye hemi. I was surprised at the image quality damage caused by the Nikkor 16mm f2.8 af LR lens profile. I rarely use lens profiles, but almost always tic the remove the chromatic aberration box.
Chris Dees wrote:
For me the second one looks the best (the “real” fisheye). In the others the sun(stairs) are too munch distorted.
GeorgeBo wrote:
Beast of a lens body Rafael. Can you tell if the front element, aperture and rear elements are all one unit? If it is and could be removed from the lens body it would be interesting to see if it could be mounted to a lens board and used in a technical camera like the Cambo Actus. Would open up all possibilities of uses with tilts, shifts, swings, macro, infinity and everything in between
Let me know if you get tired of it
George, the lens can be removed from the outer cylinder, it all moves in and out as a unit, however a couple of its elements "float" or move following on a cam in the outer cylinder; meaning that these elements are part of the inside unit, but have some degree of movement that follows a cam in the outer cylinder. Lens unit would not correct for focusing distance with these floating elements if removed from the outer cylinder.
rafaelcasd wrote:
Samy, I am not reviewing the lens - fooling around with it is more like it, but methinks you like fooling around with lenses too, so its OK.
Well it has been turning into a review and I have been enjoying the posts on it.
Talking about fooling around with lenses, no one's gotten hold of the 58 0.95 mirrorless yet? I think Nikon specifically had this thread in mind when they were coming up with that concept Ken, you need an upgrade from your classic Noct?
I dug out my old black leather field bag that has literally been around the world. Passing this on to my son when we visit this weekend so he can hopefully use it for his field work and get another career worth of use out of it.
I set my first Nikon FM camera that I got back in 1981 on top. It sort of fit with the history of the bag
Shot with 50mm/1.8 Ais lens (rubber focus ring version)
NIKON Z 8Nikkor 50 mm 1:1.8 lens50mmf/2.01/30s200 ISO0.0 EV
GeorgeBo wrote:
I dug out my old black leather field bag that has literally been around the world. Passing this on to my son when we visit this weekend so he can hopefully use it for his field work and get another career out of it.
I set my first Nikon FM camera that I got back in 1981 on top. It sort of fit
Shot with 50mm/1.8 Ais lens (rubber focus ring version)
