{"id":1290,"date":"2009-08-12T13:26:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T04:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-08-12\/1290"},"modified":"2009-08-12T13:26:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T04:26:37","slug":"wide-angle-summer-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-08-12\/1290","title":{"rendered":"Wide-Angle Summer Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\nNOTE<\/b>: Images with an icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + 14-24mm f\/2.8 @ 14 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/10, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nMike and Grace, Me and Luke<\/span><\/span>\nme with my brother and his kids, at 14mm\n<\/div>\n\n

When I got my Nikon D700 last year, I also picked<\/span> up the new Nikkor\n14<\/span>-24 zoom. On the D700<\/span>'s full-frame sensor, the 14mm is about as wide\nangle as you can get without being a fish<\/span>-eye lens. I haven't<\/span> used it much,\nmostly because it's big and heavy specialty lens that I have<\/span> to switch to\nfor the one moment in an event where I think<\/span> it might be useful, then\nswitch back, and I often<\/span> don't think it'll be worth the bother.<\/p>\n\n

I have used it around the house a bit,<\/span> having posted photos with it here<\/a> and here<\/a>, and\noccasionally since. I did bring<\/span> it along on my current trip to Ohio, so I\nthought<\/span> I'd post some of the results.<\/p>\n\n

The main benefit of a wide-angle lens is, of course, its wide angle, but\nobjects that are near the can be severely distorted. Sometimes that can be\nused for effect, as I did<\/span> in Fun at 24mm<\/a>, and\nhere:<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + 14-24mm f\/2.8 @ 14 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>2000 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nSwoosh<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + 14-24mm f\/2.8 @ 14 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/9, ISO 1100 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nApple Right Off the Tree<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + 14-24mm f\/2.8 @ 14 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1000 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nCooperative Transportation<\/span>\nI should have included this on the Josh\/Grace Driving post<\/a> the other day\n<\/div>\n\n

Distortion diminishes if most things are roughly the same distance from\nthe lens (where anything more than 10 or so meters away is equally “far”),\nand you get more “wide” and less “angle”, but then, anything more than 10 or so meters away becomes\ntiny in the frame...<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + 14-24mm f\/2.8 @ 14 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>640 sec, f<\/span>\/6.3, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nChasing Geese<\/span>\nif you click to open the large version, and squint, you can see a flock<\/span> of geese taking off\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + 14-24mm f\/2.8 @ 14 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>80 sec, f<\/span>\/14, ISO 360 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nAfter the Storm<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

After a big thunderstorm yesterday, the sun came out and we had bright\nlight to one side, and dark, foreboding clouds rolling away on the other,\nand we thought for sure we'd get a spectacular<\/span> rainbow, but no such\nluck.<\/p>\n\n

Sometimes you just want to get everything in frame, and 14mm is what it takes...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + 14-24mm f\/2.8 @ 14 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>250 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nVideos on Uncle Mikey's 'Puter<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + 14-24mm f\/2.8 @ 14 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 3200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nOnly in Grandma's House<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

The particular Nikon lens I have zooms to 24mm, an unimpressive\n1.7× zoom range on paper (for comparison, an 18-200mm zoom has an\n11.1× zoom range), but the difference is notable, with much less\ndistortion because there's much less to try to fit into the frame...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + 14-24mm f\/2.8 @ 24 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 640 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nEric Carle's Morning Glory<\/span>\n( Eric Carle wrote The Very Hungry Caterpillar<\/i><\/a> )\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + 14-24mm f\/2.8 @ 24 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1250 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nBig Gracie<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

I don't use this lens much, but it's fun when I do.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + 14-24mm f\/2.8 @ 14 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 4500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I got my Nikon D700 last year, I also picked up the new Nikkor 14-24 zoom. On the D700's full-frame sensor, the 14mm is about as wide angle as you can get without being a fish-eye lens. I haven't used it much, mostly because it's big and heavy specialty lens that I have to switch to for the one moment in an event where I think it might be useful, then switch back, and I often don't think it'll be worth the bother.<\/p>

I have used it around the house a bit, having posted photos with it here and [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}