Kiev fisheye (was: Re: IR spherical panorama)

[Marco Pauck <pauck@xxxxxx>]

Clive Warren wrote:
[...]
> Was interested to read your comments on the Kiev 30mm W-J.  Have you
> tried out one of these lenses?
> 
> Am interested as I have an old Agiflex (1940s) converted to take
> Pentacon/Kiev etc lenses and was in fact looking at the 30mm Kievs a
> few weeks ago.
> 
> Are we talking true fisheye here?  When you say "full frame" is this
> a circle touching the sides of the 6x6 format, or does the image
> cover the whole of the 6x6 format?

The Arsat/Zodiak 30mm is a full-frame fisheye for 6x6 but a
circular for 4x5".

More info can be found at
http://www.pauck.de/marco/photo/stuff/kiev_fisheye/kiev_fisheye.html

	Marco
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