Re: [fisheye or flat field?]

[Alan Zinn <azinn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:23 PM 3/29/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Alan Zinn <azinn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>Colleagues,
>
>I don't know anything about ultra-wide lenses and have questions. For a
>rotating panorama camera does it matter if a lens is flat field or fisheye
>since a narrow vertical aperture is used?  The choice is between a 15mm
>Sigma fisheye and a sigma 14mm flat field.  Are their optical qualities of
>fisheye lenses that make them unsuitable for a panning camera? btw anyone
>know a url with data on these lenses?
>
>
>Definately go flat field.  The fisheye distortion will compress the image
>towards the edges.  Also the film will not be in synchronization with the
>rotation as it moves across the slit near the edges, causing bluring.
>
>--Alan

Alan,
Quick answer from a quick guy!  Kind of suspected there would be a problem.
Now I'm wondering what someone would want all that forground and sky in a
15mm pano for:->

Thanks

AZ

>


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