The Ultrawide and Fisheye Open Thread

[AndrewFlannigan]

A place for those of us who love to go wiiiide!

To kick off, a fisheye picture about fisheyes!



This was made on my very first digital camera, a Nikon Coolpix 990 bought new in 2000, not long after they were released in the UK. It was quite a long time later that I bought the fisheye adapter but that is now my primary use for this 20 year old camera. The bit sticking out the back is a an after market viewer for the LCD, without which the combination is much harder to use...

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

For those who prefer their images with a little less bulginess, some images from one of the classic ultrawides - Tamron's 17mm AD2...

 

[Mr Perceptive]

Homemade fisheye asssembly!!

Fuji X100F + Fuji Wide Angle Converter (WCL) and on the end of that a Jessops Fish Eye Adapter!!


Liverpool Museum Fisheye X100F by David Yeoman, on Flickr

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

There are degrees of bulginess between the fisheye and and the ultrawide. Some images through semi (AKA full frame) fisheye lenses...

Sigma 16mm "Filtermatic" on 35mm film in a Nikon in the late 1990s...



A more modern take on the semi-fisheye using the Samyang 12mm on a Canon 40D...



Micro four thirds got into the game when Samyang released their 7.5mm. Of course, given the reputation of Russian pilots, this might be how they all saw their cockpits...

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

Finding subjects for a 180 degree fisheye can be a struggle and the results aren't always that effective...

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

Something like the 15mm Voigtlander on a film body can make the most of a cloudy sky...

 

[Ed Sutton]

I briefly had a 16mm Nikon fisheye...

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

There's something fishy about this selfie!

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

With the Nikon Coolpix 990 set to wide angle and the FC-E8 fitted, you have 183 degrees of coverage. Even a boring window becomes a thing of wonder. (LSD may give you the same effect but it's more difficult to share the experience )

 

[pooley]

Well, as fisheyes are a staple lens underwater, here's one from Carless Reef in the Red Sea



Mike

 

[Gav.]

Amazing colours!

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

Exeter bus station: 17mm Tamron AD2 on Nikon D600...

 

[Petrochemist]

I like fish-eyes so have two for different camera systems, both reaching 180° diagonally:
The Pentax DA10-17 fisheye
Stour woods fisheye by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

Fishy Rufus 2 by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

and a unbranded 8mm/3.8 fisheye for MFT (the filter fouled on hood here
Fisheye filter test by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

But when I want to go really wide I have to resort to my bird's eye adapter that see's 360° in one shot
NEPW - P1080495 small by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

 

[toohuge]

A carousel in Harrogate

harrogate-21-6426 by Chris Reynolds Silverstone Classic Photographs, on Flickr

 

[justpix]

Hi, Malaga/ESP ... (SONY A7R2 - VOIGTLÄNDER 4,5/15) :

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

Work, work, work! Voigtlander 15mm on Bessa L...

 

[superpippo]

Peterborough Cathedral

untitled-9150775 by Superpippo0547, on Flickr

untitled-9150766 by Superpippo0547, on Flickr

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

Stall at Chippenham Market taken with a Sigma 17~35mm zoom at 17mm...

 

[superpippo]

Cragside, Northumbria

Cragside, Northumbria by Superpippo0547, on Flickr

Cragside, Northumbria by Superpippo0547, on Flickr

 

[Jao]

Tubeway Army
15mm Heliar Aspherical, Voigtlander Bessa L

 

[ShinySideUp]

I've never had a fisheye lens, probably never will, but I always remember a Nikon promotional picture taken of the front of a single decker bus from 2" away showing the whole of the front of the bus. It was taken with a very expensive 6mm fisheye and so so 'fishy' that apparently it was able to see behind itself, I think this is it: Nikkor 6mm f2.8

If I recall, it could only be installed on a camera wherein the mirror could be locked up because the back end of the lens protruded into the shutter cavity.

 

[ShinySideUp]

Tubeway Army
15mm Heliar Aspherical, Voigtlander Bessa L

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Those guys don't look too pleased to be in your picture

 

[justpix]

Hi, the Rhein at Biebrich/D ... (Leica M9 - VOIGTLÄNDER Ultra-Wide Heliar 5,6/12 f 8) :

 

[justpix]

Hi, looking at Mainz/D across the Rhein ... (Leica M9 - VOIGTLÄNDER Ultra-Wide Heliar 5,6/12 f 8) :

 

[superpippo]

V&A Dundee

V&A Dundee by Superpippo0547, on Flickr

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

Venetian blind at 7.5mm...

 

[JohnC6]

Venetian blind at 7.5mm...

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Very good..who'd have thought of that..well,you have

I gave some 'like's without looking at the date at the start of the thread. I'll leave them.

 

[JohnC6]

Taken with a Canon 15mm W/A lens. I've since sold the lens, though as I seldom used it





15mm lens again. An updraught taken at Sentinel, Oklahoma.

 

[mstphoto]

Bracken in our local woodlad
Sony a7iii + Sony 12-24 @ 19mm

Bracken 97 by Mike Stephen, on Flickr

 

[mstphoto]

My other half doing her best Princess Di impersonation
Olympus E-M10 + Samyang fisheye

Strathfillan Wigwams by Mike Stephen, on Flickr

 

[justpix]

Hi, ... (Leica M9 - VOIGTLÄNDER 5,6/12 f 5,6) :

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

You don't even need a fisheye lens to grab a fisheye shot!

 

[JohnC6]

I never did finds out what make it was. Taken in US .15mm Sigma fisheye

 

[JohnC6]

US Storm at sunset... 15mm.


Just lucky with the lightning CC bolt . Cloud > Cloud

Strange clouds. Was reported in local US press.


Sunset on a Supercell Cb. The moon is middle right side.

 

[justpix]

Buenos Dias! In Malaga/ESP ... (SONY A7R2 - VOIGTLÄNDER 4,5/15 f 5,6) :

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

The leaning tree, Glasshouse Lane, Exeter...

 

[Nod]

I never did finds out what make it was. Taken in US .15mm Sigma fisheye
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It's an International Harvester of some type and vintage.

 

[JohnC6]

It's an International Harvester of some type and vintage.

Thanks for that. I'll keep Googling using that name. So far no luck despite a page of Pinterest photos of IH vehicles.

 

[justpix]

Hi, BOBLOV KJ21 bodycam. Please, note the high IQ, showing that the earth is round ( ) ... :

 

[justpix]

Hi, in Mainz/D ... (LEICA M9 - VOIGTLÄNDER ,4,5/15) :