Guess the Lens ;-)

tobbsman · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2578 Location: Austria

Arrived in Holland for my vacation.
Just some weird shot with weird compositions from the coast and Middelburg.

what do you think about the lens Laughing

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1

2

3

4

5

Cheers
Tobias

David · Expire: 2013-01-25

Looks like an ultra-wide, but also a tilt shift? 24mm tilt-shift?

tobbsman · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2578 Location: Austria

no

Cheers
Tobias

Willem · Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Posts: 280 Location: Netherlands

i see no tilt-shift effect.
It all looks very "Zeiss3d"-ish, and also very wide. In your signature i see CZJ Flektogon 20 2.8, maybe?

I really do like the first one, by the way.

BRunner · Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Posts: 705 Location: Czech Republic

Too much distortion for wide-angle. Looks like FF fish-eye on crop camera. Zenitar 2.8/16, or Takumar 4/17 or something like this.

Minolfan · Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 3439 Location: Netherlands

I guess Zenitar 16mm 2.8 too.

IAZA · Joined: 16 Apr 2010 Posts: 2587 Location: Indonesia

I had 3 mount of Zenitar 16, I never had result like that in openwide.
but yess I agree that's taken with fish eye lens.
Takumar can produce such bokeh. so this is my guess, I dont have experience with other fisheye

Rolf · Expire: 2015-12-26

Well Tobias, would say 16 or 17mm too. Maybe Takumar 4/17mm ?

Wink

peterqd · Expire: 2014-01-04

SMC A20 2.8?

tobbsman · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2578 Location: Austria

Hehe, very far away all of you ...

I'll lift the secret ...
Those shots are done with SMC K50/1.4
all wide open with f1.4 ...
but panoramized of course Smile

each foto consits of 50-100 frames, handheld
except 1st was about 30 shots ... therefore the ultra-wide appearance

Cheers
Tobias

Minolfan · Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 3439 Location: Netherlands

The panorama-man again!
No chance to guess that Laughing

GrahamNR17 · Expire: 2012-09-06

I can think of nothing more to say than WOW! Stunning results, you are the master of that technique Cool

bhargav · Expire: 2014-11-24

I really like 3 and 4. Very nicely done.

peterqd · Expire: 2014-01-04

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

iangreenhalgh1 · Expire: 2014-01-07

And there was me thinking I'd had an original idea when I came up with the same idea...

Nicely done.

But 50-100 frames???? Surely this many is overkill? I usually do 10-20.

tobbsman · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2578 Location: Austria

Many many thanks guys for commenting !

@Orio
do you know the name of that guy ?
he should be one funny person Laughing

... I think I did my first wide open pano 6 years ago, maybe I can sue him
and claim the technique on my name Laughing

... about Holland: there is a reason: my wife is Dutch and we visit her relatives
traditionally with our Easter vacation (we are both teachers, so we have same vacation periods).

@Ian
no, not at all !
because the angle of view would be ~5 times as small (with same lens and same
distance to the object).
to take the same panorama with 20 shots you would have take a ultra-wide lens.
And there is no wide lens with f1.4. so the bokeh-effect would be more less be gone Wink

and that's just the point of this wide-open panos ..

Cheers
TObias

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

ilguercio · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 1:17 pm Post subject:

Very interesting, how do you manage the frames in post production and what is the correct procedure for taking the most correct shots on site?
Any suggestion?
Thanks in advance, lovely work you've done.

tobbsman · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2578 Location: Austria

@Orio
Thanks for the link ! Shocked

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ilguercio · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 7:25 pm Post subject:

I mean, how do you move the camera to get the other shots?
Do you just tilt it in every direction? I guess so, the "axis" of the camera should never change, right?
A bit like you were on a tripod and you could only rotate the camera, am i right?

tobbsman · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2578 Location: Austria

ok, understand now what you mean.

I haven't got good results when I "imitate" a panorama-head movement,
rotating the camera near the nodal point of the lens. It never worked really,
because one can't be that accurate, especially when it's about a huge number of frames.

I get best results when I rotate with my whole body, but always same.

As you see, with this close distance to the subject (~1meter) and about 80
frames each I was
still OK with this technique. Some minor stiching errors, but can be
corrected easily.

Hope that helped ...

Cheers
Tobias

ilguercio · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 7:41 pm Post subject:

Yes, that was helpful.
I'll try to do one myself in the next days. What application do you use for stitching? I never did one and i don't really like using PS for this simple task.

tobbsman · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2578 Location: Austria

Use AutopanoGiga2.5

Cheers
Tobias