Best budget glass wide angle lens for Canon: Recently started using a DLSR (Canon EOS T6). Currently have a 18-55mm kit lens and recently purchased a Canon 1.8 nifty fifty plus a Canon...

Jsykes

Recently started using a DLSR (Canon EOS T6). Currently have a 18-55mm kit lens and recently purchased a Canon 1.8 nifty fifty plus a Canon EF 55-250 mm. Need advice on a wide angle lens. I have seen recommendations for 16-35, 10-22, 10-20, 8-16, 24 and 35. Happy to buy second hand and non Canon (I am aware of Adorame et al); but would prefer glass as may move to FF if I really get the bug

dc3legs Loc: Tucson

I bought an EF-S10-22 refurb from Canon a year and a half ago to use on my T5. Works well in tight indoor situations and no real complaints at all. All functions work well and with fairly predictable results. I'll be watching your other replies too, thanks for asking the question...

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

How much of a budget? The 16-35 F4L is a great lens, but if it is too pricey, you can pick up a lightly used 17-40 f4L for typically $300-350, and it is an excellent lens (and if you beleive DXOMark, it’s just as sharp)

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

The budget full frame candidate is a used copy of the EF 17-40 f/4L. The EF-S option is the EF-S 10-18 f/4.5-5.6 IS STM

imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

Jsykes wrote:

Recently started using a DLSR (Canon EOS T6). Currently have a 18-55mm kit lens and recently purchased a Canon 1.8 nifty fifty plus a Canon EF 55-250 mm. Need advice on a wide angle lens. I have seen recommendations for 16-35, 10-22, 10-20, 8-16, 24 and 35. Happy to buy second hand and non Canon (I am aware of Adorame et al); but would prefer glass as may move to FF if I really get the bug

The Tokina 12-28mm f4 is a GREAT crop (APS) lens -BUT- it covers full frame from 18mm on up - so is useable on full frame. - https://kenrockwell.com/tokina/12-28mm.htm

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htbrown Loc: San Francisco Bay Area

Here's another vote for the EFS 10-22. I have this lens and love it.

BebuLamar

Using FF wide angle lens on an APS-C camera is expensive.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Jsykes wrote:

Recently started using a DLSR (Canon EOS T6). Currently have a 18-55mm kit lens and recently purchased a Canon 1.8 nifty fifty plus a Canon EF 55-250 mm. Need advice on a wide angle lens. I have seen recommendations for 16-35, 10-22, 10-20, 8-16, 24 and 35. Happy to buy second hand and non Canon (I am aware of Adorame et al); but would prefer glass as may move to FF if I really get the bug

An ultra wide lens like a 10-22 will be ok on a T6 but will likely not cover a full frame sensor. 14mm seems to be about the limit for a full frame lens, and generally speaking it won't be cheap, even used. Will that provide what you are looking for?

Jsykes

You guys are great in responding so quickly. My major focus for a wide angle lens is Landscape, does this change any of the recommendations? Off to New Zealand in the spring and would love to develop my landscape capability before I get there and hate to come back with sub par results.

BebuLamar

As Gene said you could buy an EF-S lens but only use on your camera. When you go FF you will have to buy new lens. Buying a FF lens is very expensive and yet not very wide for your camera. You may consider doing landscape without using ultra wide angle lens. 18mm is enough and perhaps try landscape at 200mm.

tonal Loc: Greece

You will not get a very wide angle if you are going to use an ultrawide FF lens because of the crop factor.
16mm would be very wide on a FF but it would be an equivalent of 26mm on a crop frame body and it is not a huge difference from the minimum 18mm of a standard kit lens.
24mm or 35mm on a crop body is more close tho the standard field of view rather than a wide angle.

For an ultrawide I would suggest the Canon EF-S 10-18mm f4.5/5.6 IS STM.
It has IS, it is light and affordable and has an equivalent field of view that a 16-29mm FF would approximately have.
It has a slow aperture but IS helps for stationary subjects in darker environment (I can even shoot at 1/2 of a second and get a sharp image).
In normal daylight the dark aperture is more than OK.

J2e Loc: Canandaigua, NY

I also have the Tokina 12/28mm f4 for Canon. I use it on T3i and have been very pleased.

imagemeister wrote:

The Tokina 12-28mm f4 is a GREAT crop (APS) lens -BUT- it covers full frame from 18mm on up - so is useable on full frame. - https://kenrockwell.com/tokina/12-28mm.htm

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mvetrano2 Loc: Commack, NY

Canon 10-18 great lens.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Jsykes wrote:

Recently started using a DLSR (Canon EOS T6). Currently have a 18-55mm kit lens and recently purchased a Canon 1.8 nifty fifty plus a Canon EF 55-250 mm. Need advice on a wide angle lens. I have seen recommendations for 16-35, 10-22, 10-20, 8-16, 24 and 35. Happy to buy second hand and non Canon (I am aware of Adorame et al); but would prefer glass as may move to FF if I really get the bug

I would not worry too much about a future FF camera if that is as far as you are thinking. I would like to go FF someday as well....perhaps. I got the 10-18mm EFs and love it and the great quality of the shots. It is very inexpensive and if you go FF R it will work on that camera as well. For the price it is worth getting and if you change to FF 3-4 years from now it will more than paid for itself. The 17mm length is about a 28mm which is not that wide and where you are now with your current lens where the 10mm length is equal to FF 16mm, which is reasonably wide. It then goes to your 18-55 kit lens short end. The other 10-22 is also an EFs and more than twice as expensive and not as good.

PaulB Loc: Alabama

Take a look at the Sigma 10-20 mm. Very affordable, well built, and light weight. Have had one on for my Canon T2i for years, Provides excellent photos,