Wide angle lenses
Sep 13, 2013 10:18:55 #
Fotografer
Loc: Denmark WI
If you look at my site the light house was shot with that lens I believe no photo shop.
Sep 13, 2013 11:23:21 #
I have the Sigma 10-20 mm and love it! Great build, very sharp! Good price as well.
Sep 13, 2013 11:24:01 #
My Sigma 10-20 f/4-5.6 is in the "cold, dead fingers" category. As in, you'll get mine when you pry it from the aforementioned digits.
-- Paul Dellechiaie
-- Paul Dellechiaie
Sep 13, 2013 11:30:02 #
Thanks. Its come down to the Sigma 10-20mm, or the Tonkina 12-24. They both seem to be pretty good lenses. I'm just not sure if I need the extra mm on the low end, or the higher end. I'm not to concern with the aperture range.
Sep 13, 2013 12:31:46 #
I'd say go for the short end. The long end overlaps pretty much any mid-range zoom in either case.
Sep 13, 2013 13:16:08 #
CSI Dave
Loc: Arizona
lighthouse wrote:
My advice would be for the Sigma 10-20mm 1:4-5.6 EX DC HSM.
Cheaper, smaller and therefore cheaper filter size.
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Cheaper, smaller and therefore cheaper filter size.
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I also have the Sigma and would recommend it. However, it does take 77mm filters, which I don't consider all that small or necessarily cheap.
Sep 13, 2013 13:22:57 #
Bram boy
Loc: Vancouver Island B.C. Canada
tenusfan1 wrote:
Thanks. Its come down to the Sigma 10-20mm, or the Tonkina 12-24. They both seem to be pretty good lenses. I'm just not sure if I need the extra mm on the low end, or the higher end. I'm not to concern with the aperture range.
well read. byThom. com . he is the nikon garu . and he has a sigma
10-20mm . acording to him it's better than the more costly nikon 12-24 in every way build, performance , and he's a niikon guy . that sold me . as i have had mine since last oct . it's the f32-f5.6- 1.4 glass I'm totaly pleased with it
Sep 13, 2013 13:25:42 #
CSI Dave wrote:
I also have the Sigma and would recommend it. However, it does take 77mm filters, which I don't consider all that small or necessarily cheap.
I have the Sigma and it works well. A filter factor: if getting a polarizer ( I wouldn't bother)-- be sure to get the "thin" model; otherwise, you may get vignetting.
Sep 13, 2013 13:31:50 #
There is that issue. Though I really wanted the wide end and so just "bit the bullet", as it were.
What size filters does the Tamron take?
What size filters does the Tamron take?
Sep 13, 2013 13:37:50 #
Sep 13, 2013 14:09:21 #
I had the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 lens when i had a D7000 Nikon. I found it to be a great lens little distortion or baralleling. Ken Rockwell rates it nearly equivalent to the comparable Nikon at several hundred $ more. I think you could get one used on Ebay for around $450-500.
Sep 13, 2013 14:21:49 #
Bram boy
Loc: Vancouver Island B.C. Canada
Bram boy wrote:
well read. byThom. com . he is the nikon garu . and he has a sigma
10-20mm . acording to him it's better than the more costly nikon 12-24 in every way build, performance , and he's a niikon guy . that sold me . as i have had mine since last oct . it's the f32-f5.6- 1.4 glass I'm totaly pleased with it
10-20mm . acording to him it's better than the more costly nikon 12-24 in every way build, performance , and he's a niikon guy . that sold me . as i have had mine since last oct . it's the f32-f5.6- 1.4 glass I'm totaly pleased with it
trust me if you want a wide angle you want as wide as it can go . that one mm will make a diff I very seldom if ever use the 20mm end . if you want to use that end more often get a 35 mm or a 50mm prime for a third of the price .
Sep 13, 2013 14:24:03 #
I doubt you could go wrong with any of the lenses mentioned. But here are a couple things to consider. What focal lengths do you like for what you shoot? I rarely find that I want anything wide than 12mm on DX but some people love really wide lenses (say, 10mm). What other lenses do you own? If your current short lens is, say, a 24-70, a 10-20mm will leave a gap between 20-24mm in the lineup which may (or may not) matter to you. If you have an 18-55 kit zoom, it doesn't matter. Like almost everything in photography, it depends on your subject matter and taste.
Sep 13, 2013 14:34:18 #
Sep 13, 2013 14:45:36 #
Bram boy
Loc: Vancouver Island B.C. Canada
also the 24mm on the film cameras of many moons ago was the wide angle that was the norm . now that len's on a dx camera is not that wide any more . it's more like a 36 mm on the dx. and that is closer to a normal than a wide on dx. so you need a minumum of 16mm on dx to be
around the same as a 24mm on fx
around the same as a 24mm on fx
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