Re: OT: Zenitar Fish Eye?
Joseph Tainter a écrit: For this class of lens it is quite sharp plus a lot of fun. I have enjoyed mine much. It is sharper than Pentax's F 17-28 fisheys. A mine friend has a Zenitar (for Nikon), and I have a K 4/17mm fish eye. Both seems near similar quality. Michel
Re: OT: Zenitar Fish Eye?
For this class of lens it is quite sharp plus a lot of fun. I have enjoyed mine much. It is sharper than Pentax's F 17-28 fisheys. JOe
Re: Zenitar Fish Eye?
Hi Marnie, The Zenitar is a great lens, not only for the price. It does show a wonderful color rendition and a very good sharpness (when stopped down, of course). The flare control is *almost* on the same league of a SMC lens. Well built, although you may experience sample variations. When I travel I always have it in the bag, just in case. I regret a lot when I forget to bring it with me. Think that when I lost almost all my equipment (stolen, eight years ago) the first lens after the 50mm and 100mm I wanted to buy again was the Zenitar. About the distorsion, a fish eye is simply a lens not corrected wrt this... Every full frame fish eye of the same FL will show more or less the same distorsion. Hope this helps. Ciao, Gianfranco - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been think about getting a Zenitar fish eye (16mm). Screwmount, it would work on my Canon Elan 7e (with the adapter that I already got for the Super Tak 35mm 3.5). Evidentially higher priced/better fish eyes have a lot less distortion, etc., etc. But it might be fun to play around with. Complete waste of time or not? Marnie aka Doe :-) = To read is to travel without all the hassles of luggage. ---Emilio Salgari (1863-1911) __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
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Hope this helps. Ciao, Gianfranco Yup. Sure does. Thx!, Marnie aka Doe :-)
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- Original Message - From: Subject: OT: Zenitar Fish Eye? I've been think about getting a Zenitar fish eye (16mm). Screwmount, it would work on my Canon Elan 7e (with the adapter that I already got for the Super Tak 35mm 3.5). Evidentially higher priced/better fish eyes have a lot less distortion, etc., etc. But it might be fun to play around with. Complete waste of time or not? I had one for a while. I found it to be quite sharp, and surprisingly, not overly flarey. I thought the colour rendition was a bit garish, it might fit in well with Canon lenses in this regard. I found a good deal on a Super Takumar 17mm fisheye, and ended up selling the Zenitar to a fellow list member. William Robb
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Hi Marnie, On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 01:12:49 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been think about getting a Zenitar fish eye (16mm). [...] Complete waste of time or not? I have one and I've been very happy with the prints I get from it. It does have a lot of distortion, but it's a fisheye so I expected that. Actually, some shots it's not really noticable and others it definitely is. Often I use it to get _really_ close to large (non-macro) subjects. Even at half a foot distance it still covers a lot of scene. My big problem has been keeping my feet and knuckles out of the shots. Finish is not exceptional but it seems robust as a tank. If you get it direct you can save some money. It's been in the Sovietsky catalog for almost $200 but I got mine, new, a couple of years ago from ebay user kievcamera for around $125. TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
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It is definitely a fun lens, and often quite useful. I got mine to use with the MZ-S, and yes, there is considerable distortion, but I expected that. For landscape shots without a lot of foreground detail, the distortion is barely visible. On the *ist D, the distortion is tamed considerably since I'm only using the central portion of the image. Bill - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 1:12 AM Subject: OT: Zenitar Fish Eye? I've been think about getting a Zenitar fish eye (16mm). Screwmount, it would work on my Canon Elan 7e (with the adapter that I already got for the Super Tak 35mm 3.5). Evidentially higher priced/better fish eyes have a lot less distortion, etc., etc. But it might be fun to play around with. Complete waste of time or not? Marnie aka Doe :-)
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Hi! I have one and love it.. here are some sample pics http://photography.desertrose.de/div/gallery1.html the snowy one, the one with the banana trees, the two with the parking house and the the bw on and the one with the donkey... the scans are a bit poor, my scanner is not so good, the prints are sharp... ^_^ I use it with Pentax MX and ME... bought new for about 107$ at ebay direct from Moskau... hope this helps.. bye Katrin Bill Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 05.11.2003, 15:19:36: It is definitely a fun lens, and often quite useful. I got mine to use with the MZ-S, and yes, there is considerable distortion, but I expected that. For landscape shots without a lot of foreground detail, the distortion is barely visible. On the *ist D, the distortion is tamed considerably since I'm only using the central portion of the image. Bill - Original Message - From: To: Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 1:12 AM Subject: OT: Zenitar Fish Eye? I've been think about getting a Zenitar fish eye (16mm). Screwmount, it would work on my Canon Elan 7e (with the adapter that I already got for the Super Tak 35mm 3.5). Evidentially higher priced/better fish eyes have a lot less distortion, etc., etc. But it might be fun to play around with. Complete waste of time or not? Marnie aka Doe :-)
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I've been think about getting a Zenitar fish eye (16mm). Complete waste of time or not? Hi, I have owned the Zenitar (K-mount) and it's a good lens for the money, if you are able to get it for a good price, of course, and get one that has a good build quality. However, the lens is a very poor cousin to the K 15/3.5 and the K 18/3.5 wrt image quality, color rendition, and sharpness. The colors on the examnple I had were garish, almost cartoon-like, by comparison, although you could fix it in Photoshop LOL and the results are OK for BW. I don't think I'd own another now that I have the 18/3.5 to use in its stead, but it was a fun lens to play around with, and a good introduction to the super-wide genrre. Kind regards, Tyrone -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Un regalo unico e speciale, REGALA UNA STELLA, avrai il certificato di proprietà e la mappa per localizzarla nella galassia. La trovi su www.regali.it Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=1497d=5-11
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On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, William Robb wrote: I had one for a while. I found it to be quite sharp, and surprisingly, not overly flarey. I thought the colour rendition was a bit garish, it might fit in well with Canon lenses in this regard. I found a good deal on a Super Takumar 17mm fisheye, and ended up selling the Zenitar to a fellow list member. And I've been happy with it. Build quality is good, though I always find it a bit disconcerting when the front part of the barrel, complete with lens group(s), can screw off. A lot of Pentax 200/4s can do that. I don't mind the optical quality... it's good enough for anything I'd use a fisheye on a 35mm camera for. chris
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been think about getting a Zenitar fish eye (16mm). Screwmount, it would work on my Canon Elan 7e (with the adapter that I already got for the Super Tak 35mm 3.5). Evidentially higher priced/better fish eyes have a lot less distortion, etc., etc. But it might be fun to play around with. Complete waste of time or not? Do it. Do it now. Best value new (in production) lens you will ever buy. mike
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On 5 Nov 2003 at 13:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Katrin, I remember those banana trees! Kewl shot. thanks ^_^ I know that I posted them some time ago, but since you asked about the zenitar... I didn't have much time recently, but I hope I find the time to give the zenitar a bit excersise this weekend... ^_^ bye Katrin Thanks everyone for the input. Marnie aka Doe :-) ** Desertrose Chris' Katrin's X Japan homepage! Please visit it! http://www.xjapan.de * From now on I will try to live for you and for me. I will live with love...with dreams... and forever with tears.. **
