16mm Zenitar lens & digital cameras

[Mike Sinclair <sinclair@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I purchased one of these (www.russia2all.com) for ~$200 though now see
they're offered in other mounts for $139. I am very pleased with its
performance. Images from film stitching is a bit tricky, especially for
landscape formats. PanaVue's Image Assembler thinks the real focal length is
16.34mm which stitches fairly well in IA or Photovista.

Remember the debate a while back about fisheye lenses on slit scan and
digital pan cameras? I have tried it on a digital pan camera with impressive
results.  My sensor, a 5100 pixel trilinear CCD, is ~42mm long.....almost
enough to cover the 24 x 36mm film aperture diagonal for 180 degree vertical
field-of-view.

When I'm able to shed a dozen or so cables from the homeade camera, I'll
take some outside pans and post them.

-Mike-