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[atpaula]

Thank you for looking.
All with Zeiss 21mm f/2.8 Distagon.



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[Mongo]

Mongo loves your heavily accentuated and contrasty monochrome images. These are no exception. However, the last one seems a touch too much so. Great work as always.

[atpaula]

Thank you Mongo.
I completely agree with your opinion about the last one.
 

[Frank Fremerey]

I love these high skies. Like a stage for the object you put there.

[Erik Lund]

Very nice images and also b&w treatment, but the very heavy mustache distortion disturbs my eye...

[atpaula]

I love these high skies. Like a stage for the object you put there.

Thank you.

[atpaula]

Very nice images and also b&w treatment, but the very heavy mustache distortion disturbs my eye...

I wonder how do you detect this distortion in pics free of straight lines like these....

[Erik Lund]

My eye tells me it's not straight - I also see when a line is not true horizontal or vertical... I know most people don't see it... Sorry 

If you can't see it just grab the edge of the bottom of the browser widow and move it up until the frame is next to the horizon or bring up the grid in Photoshop.

[atpaula]

My eye tells me it's not straight - I also see when a line is not true horizontal or vertical... I know most people don't see it... Sorry 

If you can't see it just grab the edge of the bottom of the browser widow and move it up until the frame is next to the horizon or bring up the grid in Photoshop.

No need to be sorry. It is Zeiss fault.... Lol 
I wonder how the performance of the Otus 28mm f/1.4 will be.

[pluton]

Nice set of images with a pleasant monochrome drama.
I have one of these lenses(ZF 21mm), and while the general image forming qualities are superb, the one thing that haunts me about it is the distortion.  I believe it adds a subtle and undesirable tension to the photograph, even if there are no straight lines to detect it from. 
By the way, my former Nikkor 20/2.8 Ais had even worse wave distortion that the Zeiss 21.
The elimination of the large back focal distance in the mirrorless cameras has facilitated a reduction in wide-angle lens distortion that is immediately noticeable.

[Anthony]

My eye tells me it's not straight - I also see when a line is not true horizontal or vertical... I know most people don't see it... Sorry 

If you can't see it just grab the edge of the bottom of the browser widow and move it up until the frame is next to the horizon or bring up the grid in Photoshop.

I think the horizons are not all in the same plane, because the view is not across the open ocean everywhere.  I find this a problem when shooting bodies of water where there is land on the far side.  The land is never straight, so the waterline cannot be straight.  So measuring straightness and the horizontal by reference to the waterline will not work in such circumstances.

[Erik Lund]

Sure that will mask the distortion, but not remove it

If you look here at the mustache type distortion of the 21mm 2.8 ZM it is quite obvious that it is exactly what we see in the image.

From Photozone.de

My point is that this type of distortion is not easy to remove in Photoshop and therefore I would choose another lens for a shot with straight lines near the edges

I have seen in mirrorless that they correct similar distortion in the camera, even before it is send to the EVF so it will appear as the lens is distortion free 

[atpaula]

This  amount of distortion really don't bother me, even because I can not detect it in these landscape pics.

[pluton]

I have seen in mirrorless that they correct similar distortion in the camera, even before it is send to the EVF so it will appear as the lens is distortion free 

Automatic correction by software has become common.  The wide zoom lenses usually need it.
In the case of my Fujifilm 14mm on APSC(21mm-e field of view), the distortion is minimized in the optics...there is no need for software correction.  I have observed this by blocking the electrical contacts from lens to body so the camera(and subsequent processing software) doesn't know which lens is attached.
My point is only that "it can be done", at least with a prime lens.

[Erik Lund]

Yes there some lenses from various makers that have very low or very easy distortion to correct.

For many years I have hunted such near 0 distortion lenses in Nikon F and Leica M Mount... So nice for shooting architecture and products etc.
To avoid any correction of the files, camera firmware and PP...


One that really is impressive is the tiny 12mm 5.6 Voigtlander FF Very impressive on Leica M - and a new version is in the works Ultra-Wide-Heliar III