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Some of the pictures make me feel a bit dizzy,
but I suppose that's the point of the wide angle lens. Nice pictures, in any case. The light in Santa Monica has been very interesting the last couple of days.
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I was playing around with the ultra-wide camera on my Pixel Pro 8 cellphone. My impressions about the images it generates are both positive and negative, see for yourself below........ ...
Thank you for these great pictures,
they bring back so many memories from our trip to L.A. 5 years ago. I remember strolling down the path along the Santa Monica beach and having dinner at Pier Burger. And we had our last meal in the US at the exact Mel´s you pictured here before driving ba...
My sincere pleasure once again....
That coincidence of you dining at that exact Mel's just before leaving for Europe is especially poignant. Thank you for looking and enjoying! Cheers, Filip
The pics look fine to me
Been to LA only twice and too short to do any sightseeing either time unfortunately. For me Santa Monica brings back memories of my time as a youngster in Track&Fields, Carl Lewis was my hero at that time!
I did....
T&F in high school as well. As you well know, many WPS members are LA residents, so you'd be more than welcome to visit again ........
Interesting choice....
Those two are 50 meters from one another on the same street ....
Indeed, I guess....
they are a good part of the reason cell phones nowadays cost a thousand dollars ........
In my opinion....
Primarily the horizontal distortion/warping in some images due to the curvature of the lens itself....
Ok i get you..
It is bit pronounced in #7,8,9, actually common for phone cams when go really wide.
Some of the pictures make me feel a bit dizzy,
but I suppose that's the point of the wide angle lens. Nice pictures, in any case. The light in Santa Monica has been very interesting the last couple of days.
Yes,
you are right about the interesting light patterns in recent days. I'm quite glad I had the day off yesterday in order to enjoy some of it! Thanks for looking and chiming in, cheers, Filip
Yes, phone cameras keep getting better but honest to Ansel cameras keep getting better too. The wide lens on my Apple 12 pro has a similar amount of undesirable distortion.
OK for landscapes but not so great for architecture or anything with straight lines. I'm surprised they haven't figured out how to improve that with computer trickery.
Exactly.
That's the specific reason why I felt of two minds with the results. Architecture and vehicles tend to get that horizontal distortion that's pretty easily noticeable, quite annoying if the goal is to capture clean, proportional pictures........
Often you can minimize that distortion if you can gain elevation when taking the image... so that you are not having to point the lens upward but most wides will still have an
increasing amount of (usually "barrel") distortion towards the sides. There are reasons why top tier rectilinear wide angle lenses cost a lot of money!
No doubt about it.
Unfortunately, elevation in Santa Monica is seldom found . There's a new Sigma 15mm f/1.4 ART lens which is a professional grade fish-eye lens that costs a pretty penny ....
Sigma makes very nice glass... but you realize that a "fisheye" is the opposite of a rectilinear wide. A fisheye maximizes distortion, on purpose. Both are expensive types of lenses
but an ultra wide rectilinear tends to cost a lot more than a fisheye.
It's simply....
The most recently released of the 'curved' lens category as I'd call it, it makes for a compelling astrophotography option, but then, astrophotography cameras are a whole other category of equipment to contend with........
Yes you could use a fisheye for sky shots to get a lot of sky in the image. And distortion would not be a huge deal with that application... but I think an ultrawide
rectilinear would work well for that also. Stars would appear bigger (good) but amount of sky seen would be a bit less.
