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Fisheye or Rectilinear lens for spherical movies?

  • From: "Gary A. Braun" <gbraun@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Fisheye or Rectilinear lens for spherical movies?
  • Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:04:39 -0400
I'd like to try my hand at creating spherical panorama movies, similar
to the Smoothmove or Ipix panoramas.  From what I understand, I should
be able to do this using Helmut's panorama tools and Photoshop to
transform and stitch the images.  I'd like to buy an extremely wide
angle lens, and since I have an Olympus camera I'm looking at either the
Zuiko 16mm full-frame fisheye or the Zuiko 18mm rectilinear lens.  Are
there any compelling reasons to purchase one over the other?  Would the
new Bessa L with 15mm Heliar be suitable, since it probably would be
cheaper than either of the two Zuiko lenses?

Thanks,
Gary