Lens Envy

I just thought I'd brag a little about the gift Rick got "me" for our anniversary (I say it's ours, he says it's mine). It's a super wide angle lens. My normal lens that I use for day-to-day stuff, otherwise known as my "walk-around" lens in photographer's lingo is a 28-135mm lens. For our cameras 1 to 1, or as the eye sees is about a 50mm lens. Anything with a smaller number is closer than 1 to 1. Lenses that bring the distant objects closer are zoom lenses and have bigger numbers. So my 28-135 is slightly wide angle and zooms in a nice amount too. But I've seen shots with the really wide, or "ultra wide" lenses that completely warp a picture and make for some really interesting stuff. Nothing can be done in Photoshop to mimic this, you just have to have the right lens.

So here is a little comparison of my walk-around 28-135mm lens and the same shot taken with my, er, OUR new 10-20mm lens, both set at the shortest focal length possible (28mm and 10mm)

28mm on the left                                                      10mm on the right

Thanks, Dear, for my - OUR new lens!