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Yesterday I picked up a Canon 8-15mm f4 L.
At 8mm it has a 180 degree circular field of view
Wow - what a challenge.
All the traditional subjects don't work, and some of the weirdest things suddenly look amazing!
I bought it for a landscape project, but I can see it is going to get a fair bit of use. I'm gonna have a lot of fun with this lens!
Here's one of my first shots - taken using live view at arms length to avoid my stomach becoming a major part of the composition
Here's a 100% crop taken on the 5DIII - ISO 100, JPEG (for convenience).
This was taken wide open at f4, that looks plenty sharp enough
It does great bobble-heads, but I still managed to get my feet in the shot!
This is Nick from my local camera shop. He and I went for a play with the lens and it was the darndest thing. We both struggled to work out how to compose images and were passing the camera back and forth as we spotted something that might work. Using this lens is like putting 10000 volts through everything you know.
This shot is plain daft!
The camera and lens are on the ground and at f18 everything is in focus from the blades of grass touching the front element right through to infinity!
Also - the horizontal line of grass marks the line of the cathedral front (the door is recessed), the lens is about 3 inches from the line and has still managed to get sky right around the building. Looks like the 180degree claims are no exaggeration!
Here's a good example of how this lens messes with your mind.
The 'tree' hanging over the street is a knee height shrub and that plaque is tiny.
In the evening I went out to photograph the moon.
Although the moon shots look great, this is my favourite as I love the unexpected shadow from my cat sitting next to me wondering what I'm up to.
The shot is hand held at 0.6s, f4, ISO 12800 and proving what you can get way with, it's sharp!
It's noisy because I mucked up my exposure and lifted the shadows 1.5 stop in PP :nono:
For a seriously specialist bit of kit, the price point makes this lens a bit of a bargain.
Can't wait to try this lens out on the landscape subjects which inspired me to buy it!
At 8mm it has a 180 degree circular field of view
Wow - what a challenge.
All the traditional subjects don't work, and some of the weirdest things suddenly look amazing!
I bought it for a landscape project, but I can see it is going to get a fair bit of use. I'm gonna have a lot of fun with this lens!
Here's one of my first shots - taken using live view at arms length to avoid my stomach becoming a major part of the composition
Here's a 100% crop taken on the 5DIII - ISO 100, JPEG (for convenience).
This was taken wide open at f4, that looks plenty sharp enough
It does great bobble-heads, but I still managed to get my feet in the shot!
This is Nick from my local camera shop. He and I went for a play with the lens and it was the darndest thing. We both struggled to work out how to compose images and were passing the camera back and forth as we spotted something that might work. Using this lens is like putting 10000 volts through everything you know.
This shot is plain daft!
The camera and lens are on the ground and at f18 everything is in focus from the blades of grass touching the front element right through to infinity!
Also - the horizontal line of grass marks the line of the cathedral front (the door is recessed), the lens is about 3 inches from the line and has still managed to get sky right around the building. Looks like the 180degree claims are no exaggeration!
Here's a good example of how this lens messes with your mind.
The 'tree' hanging over the street is a knee height shrub and that plaque is tiny.
In the evening I went out to photograph the moon.
Although the moon shots look great, this is my favourite as I love the unexpected shadow from my cat sitting next to me wondering what I'm up to.
The shot is hand held at 0.6s, f4, ISO 12800 and proving what you can get way with, it's sharp!
It's noisy because I mucked up my exposure and lifted the shadows 1.5 stop in PP :nono:
For a seriously specialist bit of kit, the price point makes this lens a bit of a bargain.
Can't wait to try this lens out on the landscape subjects which inspired me to buy it!
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bet you is an arm and a leg
