PanoTools:
Re: CIRCULAR Fisheye lens HISTORY
2003-Apr-26 21:56:46
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From: Vladimir Simunic <#removed#>
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Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 7:52 PM
Subject: [PanoTools] CIRCULAR Fisheye lens HISTORY
> Hi falks,
> surfing the net I found this articles about fisheye lens & history:
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> 1. Fisheye-Nikkor 8mm f/8 Auto
> "This is the first Fisheye lens designed by Nikkor for the Nikon F way
back
> in 1962(!!!) and thus, you can also safely quoted this lens as the world's
> first normal production fisheye lens for 35mm photography."
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http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/6070...
> or/fisheyes/rjohnson/8mmfish.htm
> It's a CIRCULAR fiseye lens!
> BTW, circular fisheye lens produces circular images! ;-)
> There have been other fisheye lenses during 1960's.
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> 2. I selected this one because it has 220 deg. field of view:
> 6mm f/5.6 Fisheye-Nikkor
> "This lens was introduced in 1969 and actually being shown as prototype as
> early as 1967."
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http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/6070...
> or/fisheyes/6mm56.htm
> Here you can find design drawings too.
>
> 3. In this article they even gave US patent numbers (guys from Nippon
> Kogaku, Olympus Optical and others obviously done some heavely research
and
> developement during 60's and 70's):
> Fisheye lens designs and their relative performance:
>
http://www.pauck.de/marco/photo/stuff/peleng_fisheye/fisheye_performance...
> parison/fisheye_performance_comparison.pdf
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> Hope you like this info...
> Best Regards,
> Vladimir
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Hey Vladimir,
nice to hear about the history. But non of your links give a page, all 404
Florian
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