Friday afternoon, a new lens arrived, a 10.5 mm f/2.8 Nikkor, that we snagged on eBay for something like half the going price for a new one. This is a very wide-angle lens, of the sort called a ‘fisheye’ (or in this case, a ‘full-frame fisheye’).

But nowadays, with a little help from software, highly-distorted fisheye images can be turned into rectilinear images referred to as ‘extreme wide angle.’ My first excursion with the lens produced yesterday’s rendering of the interior of the Russian Orthodox Church here in Menlo Park.

This morning, we took the lens along to the farmer’s market, and I snapped these interesting banana peppers, all but in the wild, on a stand that featured particularly good-looking peppers (and nothing but). We’re having fun with the new lens, a bright spot amids life’s current vicissitudes…

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