Wheres me damn 35mm!

[Joe P]

Vuk,

what do you think of the camera porn?

Nice, though I'm curious just how well aligned the finder is with the 21mm lens. It needs to be bang on to avoid converging verticals, unless that's what you're after.

About the other lens... I've never tried a super onion so I don't know.

Joe

 

[Artioneer]

It needs to be bang on to avoid converging verticals, unless that's what you're after.

Joe

Joe,

Please explain . . . exactly what are converging verticals ? TBH they have always baffled me.

Would this knowledge be handy if I was photographing SS's in NYC ?

 

[vuk]

i love converging verticals. same goes for converging horizontals. that's mainly why i bought the bloody lens!

vuk.

 

[Joe P]

Artioneer,

Please explain . . . exactly what are converging verticals ? TBH they have always baffled me.

Excuse the terrible images -- I used a crap flatbed to scan my slides back then -- but below are a few examples of converging verticals, something that's more correctly called keystoning. (See http://photonotes.org/cgi-bin/entry.pl?id=Convergingverticals for a definition.)

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=905286
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=235868
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=297390

Would this knowledge be handy if I was photographing SS's in NYC ?

Well, ultrawides and panoramic cameras seem to be the tools of choice for photographing skyscrapers in NYC...

Joe