Time for something a little different.
With the previous camera, I was particularly fond of an old Pentacon 50mm f/1.8 prime lens; an awful lot of my photos were made using that, especially for closeups and even some landscapes. On the Lumix GH2, with its 2x crop-factor, this was the equivalent of shooting at 100mm-e all the time, and I was very familiar with the field of view that entailed.
Now I’ve switched to the Sony NEX-7, I’m experimenting more with wide-angle field of view. It feels completely different, as though the eye is latching-on to features of a scene I would not previously have considered using, especially the idea of perspective and lines leading into the distance.
Yesterday’s photo of the day was taken in the Fairy Glen in Portpatrick:
![Between Realities](http://soc.sty.nu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/rt_fused_align_DSC01851_pregamma_1_mantiuk06_contrast_equalization_0.5_saturation_factor_1.2_detail_factor_2-0002.tiff_v1-1024x688.jpg)
Between Realities – in the Fairy Glen, Portpatrick
and today I dug out an old Peleng 8mm fisheye lens, spent a while tweaking the screws in the M42->E-mount adapter to make it focus at all, and made this image of the approach to the harbour – a 170-degree field of view:
![Approach Routes](http://soc.sty.nu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/DSC01933-DSC01938_fused_pregamma_1_mantiuk06_contrast_equalization_0.5_saturation_factor_0.8_detail_factor_2-0001.tiff_v1-1024x578.jpg)
Approach Routes
Coincidentally, both images have also been processed using LuminanceHDR for tonemapping.