{"id":60,"date":"2006-02-20T10:17:23","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T09:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/20\/stairs\/"},"modified":"2006-02-20T10:17:23","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T09:17:23","slug":"stairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/stairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Stairs &#8211; Flektogon 4\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image59\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biasedlogic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/2006-02-19%2023-50-38%208028.jpg\" alt=\"Staircase shadows\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Flektogon 20mm f:4. My new old lens&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nThis is the predecessor of 2.8\/20, lens optimized for aperture at the cost of distortion. The original 20\/4 has almost perfect edge-to-edge rectilinear correction. The above frame was not altered geometrically in any way (well, except for plain rotation &#038; border crop after scanning). The lowest stair steps are unsharp &#8211; they are out of DOF, the glass is sharp to the edge (of course, sharpness is better mid-field, but corner softness is not that much).<br \/>\nJust don&#8217;t put it on dSLR&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BTW: There&#8217;s a lot of heat as whether 2.8 or 4 is better, don&#8217;t shoot at me: I don&#8217;t care. If this lens fails me, I&#8217;ll ditch it and try something else, I won&#8217;t change a tool that works for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flektogon 20mm f:4. My new old lens&#8230; \ud83d\ude42 This is the predecessor of 2.8\/20, lens optimized for aperture at the cost of distortion. The original 20\/4 has almost perfect edge-to-edge rectilinear correction. The above frame was not altered geometrically in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/stairs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-photos","category-rants-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biasedlogic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}