Trying my 'Fish-Eye' attachment on my 'Saved From The Dump' 1985 era CONTAX RTS II Quartz -- I used my another of my outdated Kodak Tri-X films found in Fridge and mixed up some Geoffrey Crawley 'FX-4' fomula as it is supposed to work well with 'KODAK' films. Some 'Thin' negs had huge Grain !
It is only the edges that really reveal what might be the unwanted curvature effect. It hardly affects Santa and his helper and there might well be crowded , cramped scenes where a fisheye is the only way of including, say, a couple of figures. Out of curiosity can I ask how far from Santa and his helper were you and how much further would you have needed to be with say a 24mm?
OK -- I was about 4 feet away from Santa and his Elf Lady -- he commented " Don't get my knees in" BUT today I did a Print of each shot I took and rushed round to High Street and Santa was on his 'Lunch Break' but a helper thought prints were great ( they never noticed the 'Grain' ! ) Not sure with 24mm but I reckon 5 feet away ----
Thanks Pete for the estimation. I know nothing about how much the field of vision changes with focal length but my gut instinct had the difference as quite a bit more, moving to a Fisheye from a fairly common wide such as a 24mm. Having looked at pics from a 24mm lens it looked as if it was about the widest that can be used without any or not much distortion and if it only costs a foot in distance from the people then it would be one I'd consider. Thanks
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