Friday, September 24, 2010

New Lens

I am looking into getting another lens for my camera. I would like to purchase a Fisheye lens to take photos inside apartments for my website Forward Management, Inc. A Fisheye lens is an ultra wide angle lens, providing 180 degrees of view. This 180 degree view can be accomplished with a standard lens and a little knowledge of Photoshop. The disadvantage to this method is that you do not know how the image turned out on the spot, but have to wait until the post production is complete. This can be rather problematic especially if you are not customary to bringing a laptop with you as you shoot. Wost case - you have to go back and shoot all the photos for the merge again. With the Fisheye lens you are able to take the shot and review it immediately on the camera's display. That is why I am looking at purchasing the Nikon AF 10.5mm DX Fisheye-Nikkor F/2.8G ED [pictured below courtesy of cameracompany.com] The big disadvantage of these super wide angle lenses is that they create linear distortion, causing straight lines to curves as they get further from the center of the photograph, however this is the case with both Fisheye lenses and using the Photoshop photo merge.

 

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