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Although he needs to be taken with a pinch of salt, have you read the Ken Rockwell "how to use ultra-wide lenses" guide? I found it quite helpful considering how little information I could find on these lenses elsewhere.

Ooh, KR's article showcases a perfect example of something that looks better with a normal 37mm lens than with 14mm in the truck 2/3 of the way through - there is that pinch of salt.... Sometimes wider is just not the answer.

 

Found it. I played with a friend's 14-24mm Nikon lens on my D7000 in Tokyo. Mad lens. The pinch of salt in that Ken Rockwell article for me is his talking about getting right up in the face of things. The point of having the zoom on that lens is so you don't always have to do that IMO. Mind you, I haven't tried that lens on an FX camera yet and my photography with that lens was for practical, not artistic purposes -- eg: standing in front of a table at a meet and capturing the whole thing without having to worry about getting a crowd of people out of the way.

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Although he needs to be taken with a pinch of salt, have you read the Ken Rockwell "how to use ultra-wide lenses" guide? I found it quite helpful considering how little information I could find on these lenses elsewhere.

Ooh, KR's article showcases a perfect example of something that looks better with a normal 37mm lens than with 14mm in the truck 2/3 of the way through - there is that pinch of salt.... Sometimes wider is just not the answer.

 

Just saw your post - I know KR's site (and yeah, some of his reviews need a pile of salt) but I don't think I've read that UWA article yet.  Reading material for tonight's plane ride!

 

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That photo, and the sharpness, is incredible! Did you do much in post?  It looks sharper than when I had my Nikon 2x (TC-III) with 70-200 2.8!

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That photo, and the sharpness, is incredible! Did you do much in post?  It looks sharper than when I had my Nikon 2x (TC-III) with 70-200 2.8!

Just the usual amount of unsharp mask I apply to most RAW's, which is less sharpening than what camera body's jpeg engine applies.

The new Canon 2x TC Mk III is a big improvement over Mk II in terms of sharpness, and one should shoot stopped down with TC's. My photo was shot at f/8.

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^ Nice.  I wonder when the improvements on X100S will make it over to their interchangeable-lens cameras - would make for a healthy competition over on mirrorless arena since Sony is still not really trying.

A lot of the recent Fuji X-E1 buyers are a bit miffed that Fuji chose to release the X-E1 with the older sensor a few months before the new generation of bodies with the new sensors. I suspect the older X-Pro 1 will get the sensor update before the more recent X-E1.

Anyways, not my dog..

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A guy who is the grandson of a famous Zeiss designer showed up on reddit's /r/photography last week.  On Friday he put in an appearance on MFLenses forum.  He inherited a number of lenses from his grandfather which are stupidly rare.  One of which (the Distagon 25mm F/1.4) was known only to exist in plans.  That is, there were no copies, even prototypes believes to exist.  

 

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