A Lens by any other name.. I need a recomendation on a good wide angle Canon lens. This is mainly used for shooting finished design work in smaller spaces such as an office or a...

eye2eye Loc: Chicago, Illinois

I need a recomendation on a good wide angle Canon lens. This is mainly used for shooting finished design work in smaller spaces such as an office or a clinic. I know there are differences in wide angles and the prices are all over the board. I need one that will not bend the edges for shots being used for marketing publications and printed brochures. Please help. have a Canon Rebel T3i.

mikemilton

Wide on a crop body is always a challenge but at least you get to use the centre of the image circle.

I'd take my 24TS for the application you mention (or the 17TS if I had it and it was sufficiently distortion free)

thg3 Loc: La Quinta, California

eye2eye wrote:

I need a recomendation on a good wide angle Canon lens. This is mainly used for shooting finished design work in smaller spaces such as an office or a clinic. I know there are differences in wide angles and the prices are all over the board. I need one that will not bend the edges for shots being used for marketing publications and printed brochures. Please help. have a Canon Rebel T3i.

Many users here including me have a 10-22mm Canon EF-S lens and it is great. It translates to a 16mm full frame lens which is about as wide as you want. One lesson learned is that when shooting try very hard to keep the lens level as any up or down will cause noticable vertical distortion. I use mine for interior real estate pics and our pro photog uses one also. Not "cheap" but a really great lens.

barry.lapoint Loc: Colorado

eye2eye wrote:

I need a recomendation on a good wide angle Canon lens. This is mainly used for shooting finished design work in smaller spaces such as an office or a clinic. I know there are differences in wide angles and the prices are all over the board. I need one that will not bend the edges for shots being used for marketing publications and printed brochures. Please help. have a Canon Rebel T3i.

This is a tough one. You are almost asking the impossible to have a very wide angle shot without keystoning. 35mm is about as wide as you can get without much noticeable keystoning. For tight situations I use a Canon Fisheye 15mm, 2.8 or a 16-35mm, 2.8 and then bring it into Photoshop to straighten out the distortions.

eye2eye Loc: Chicago, Illinois

Have you heard anything about the Tamron 17-39mm lens? That was one recomended to me but not sure if the guy was just trying to make a sale. Would rather stick with a Canon but I want the best lens for the job.

thg3 Loc: La Quinta, California

eye2eye wrote:

Have you heard anything about the Tamron 17-39mm lens? That was one recomended to me but not sure if the guy was just trying to make a sale. Would rather stick with a Canon but I want the best lens for the job.

I don't know anything about the Tamron but before I bought the Canon 10-22mm, I rented one for 3 days and was blown away by the quality of the resulting pics.