Patent: Ultra-wide zoom lenses for the RF mount, including an RF 9-24mm f/4

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Here is the image as shot and imported. It actually took 6 degrees to correct for level, obviously one too many rum punches!

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as this is a 180° 15mm fisheye before SW rectilinear correction, if you want "better" results straight out of a camera a 9-24mm or even an 8-16mm rectilinear lens with "just" 135° or 139° could be more useful than the current 11-24mm with "only" 126° ;)
 
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as this is a 180° 15mm fisheye before SW rectilinear correction, if you want "better" results straight out of a camera a 9-24mm or even an 8-16mm rectilinear lens with "just" 135° or 139° could be more useful than the current 11-24mm with "only" 126° ;)
It did not have rectilinear correction.
 
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I'll accept.

Here is shot of the entrance to a university. The building is very close to the entrance gates. This first shot was taken at 26mm, so you could imagine what it would look like at 50mm.
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The building would totally overwhelm the arch.

Instead, I wanted the arch to frame the building, so I employed a Laowa 9mm 5.6 lens on a Sony a7rIII fullframe camera.

View attachment 196613Definitely some distortion present, but I wouldn't call it "ridiculous projection".

Here is the image after a little cleanup and cropping that I ended up using.

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So for me, a 9mm has a place in my kit especially if Canon can produce one with much better edge sharpness.
Very nice!
 
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