Re: Nikon 15mm5.6 for panoramic photos?

[ralph fuerbringer <rof@xxxxxxx>]

Pentax's zeiss-designed 15mmf3.5 w/aspherical element didn't just blow away
the nikkor it still fits all 35 slr's including eos but nikon and olympus.
they're too fat.
there are better panorama alternatives to the v-pan's price and film size. A
brooks plaubel verwide 100 (47mm on 6xl0 format) at a fraction of the cost
is as wide as the horribly expensive v-pan w/30mm  or linhof,fuji. Cropping
to a 3-1 proportion gives the effect of a rising front. I update xl-type
veriwides to 612 shift
cameras w/35 to 55 apo-grandagons but there are cheaper if  less convenient
alternative.  Using the front or rear standard from the 45 view you
may already have can get you top quality panorama. sinar & cambo used to
offer these pancakes. a 45mm apo-grandagon covers the 45 long dimension with
a 10mm shift. a shift can be achieved cheaply with an additional lensboard
spaced and threaded like the first but 10mm up. a 617 would have to be 624
to equal this horizontal angle.
I can supply a 45mm apo-grandagonf4.5 new in factory-boxed focusing mount
for $l000,$500 less than  b&h where it takes forever for the focusing moun
-- rof


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>From: Mama&Papa <familie_resenhoeft@xxxxxx>
>To: Panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Nikon 15mm5.6 for panoramic photos?
>Date: Sat, Mar 4, 2000, 1:14 PM
>

> Hay everybody,
>
> i know that it's a little bit "dangerous" to post the
> following question to this group where eveybody
> is dealing with very expensive ond sophisticated
> panorama-cameras. So please don't tear off my head...
>
> Yesterday i tried the Nikon 15 mm 5.6.
> Its horizontal angle-of-view is 100.4 degrees
> (calculated with http://www.mat.uc.pt/~rps/photos/angles.html).
>
> This is very near to the (horizontal) 100 degrees of the
> Linhof Technorama 617 III with the Schneider Super-Angulon 72mm
> (calculated with http://www.mat.uc.pt/~rps/photos/angles.html, too).
>
> When i looked through the 20-year-old Nikkor, the distortions
> were not as dramatic as expected and far more less than with
> the Sigma 14 mm 3.5 i own, but don't use often.
>
> Of course, the negative 24x36 mm format is small.
> Very small. O.k., it's tiny in comparison with the Linhof
> of other Large format cameras.
>
> But in the darkroom it is possible "to crop panoramas"
> from the 24x36 mm-negatives. They will show
> "the same content" like the Technorama. Another
> advantage: You dont't have to buy one of those
> gigantic enlargers... The Nikon 15mm will cost
> 1000 $, the Linhof 6000 $. To try living in
> panoramic - would't the Nikkor be the right choice?
> :-) Thilo
>
> P.S.: Please direct answers to: thilo_resenhoeft@xxxxxx
>
>