Allure Photos - A different perspective.

Before our May 26th sailing on the Allure I purchased an inexpensive manual 8mm ultra-wide fisheye lens to play with on the ship. Since we had sailed on the Allure before I thought it might provide a different look than my previous photos, here are some of the results.

Love the pictures. We will be sailing the Allure but the waiting won't be easy....

Bow & Stern

Bolero's

Great pictures. The wife and I have 166 days until we are on our B2B on the Allure. Can't wait to see her in person.

Love the pictures with the fisheye lens. Thank you for sharing. :)

Cool! :cool:

WhiteSox Fan - NICE photos!! This looks to be the Rokinon (or equivalent) 8mm fish-eye? Were you able to set aperture on the lens, set Aperture-priority at that aperture on the camera, and let camera set the shutter speed? thanks, Ken

Great photos... love the perspective the fish eye lens provides.

WhiteSox Fan - NICE photos!! This looks to be the Rokinon (or equivalent) 8mm fish-eye? Were you able to set aperture on the lens, set Aperture-priority at that aperture on the camera, and let camera set the shutter speed? thanks, Ken

Yes, I bought the Bower lens since it was cheaper ($249 from B & H) but the Bower & Rokinon are both made by Samyang in Korea. This is a fully manual lens and there is no electrical connection between the camera and the lens. If you look at the EXIF data it shows the focal length at 50mm.

You set the aperture with a manual aperture ring and you have to manually focus. Once the aperture is set my Canon would meter through the lens so you can use the aperture priority or manual mode without problem. I shot most photos with the aperture at f8 or above. The DOF is large enough that you just set the focus between 1.5m and infinity and everything is in focus. My body is a Canon 7D, on the Canon this lens has a field of view of 167 deg horizontally. On the Nikons and others it is 180 deg. If I really zoom in the lens seems a little soft but unless you really enlarge the photo you don't notice.

Thanks you for posting these photos.

Keith

AMAZING photo's!!! :eek:

There's more. I realized that a few of the good ones didn't get uploaded to my picasa account. This is a really busy week for me so hopefully I will find some time tonight to get them up and post them.

Absolutely wonderful pictures! Most of them are pretty clear, but where were 4553 and 4554 taken?

This ship is an engineering marvel. I'm a little terrified to be cruising on her...she's certainly very different from my first cruise on Carnival's tiny little Celebration about 18 years ago.

What a fantastic and unique view of everything that you took, really enjoyed it and looking forward to more. Thanks for thinking outside the box!!

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Absolutely wonderful pictures! Most of them are pretty clear, but where were 4553 and 4554 taken?

 

This ship is an engineering marvel. I'm a little terrified to be cruising on her...she's certainly very different from my first cruise on Carnival's tiny little Celebration about 18 years ago.

I put did label those two but it is hard to see between the photos. The first is in the Bow & Stern pub, the second inside Bolero's. Both are located on the Royal Promenade.

Great pictures......love the fisheye lens. Thanks for sharing. Can't wait to see the rest of them.

Gwen :)

Jazz on 4

Wow. wow. wow. They should use these pictures for advertising. Thank you!

Those are great pictures, the inside ones are really nice.

Sailing in 19 days on the Allure.

Thanks so much for taking the time to post the pictures!! Really loved the unique view of them!

All of these photos are simply amazing! You did a magnificent job. Thank you for sharing them.

Great pictures! Maybe the Sox need wide angle glasses to see the ball! ; )

Love the pictures but I want to know how you got the ship mostly to yourself. Where are all the other passengers? The photos were mostly void of people.