Re: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-05 Thread Gianfranco Irlanda
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

Re: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-05 Thread Eactivist
Hope this helps. Ciao, Gianfranco Yup. Sure does. Thx!, Marnie aka Doe :-)

Re: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-05 Thread William Robb
- 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

Re: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-05 Thread Bill Owens
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

Re: Re: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-05 Thread scars
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

Re: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-05 Thread Chris Brogden
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

Re: Zenitar Fish Eye?

2003-11-05 Thread Katrin
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