I have been torturing myself looking for a well built, picture sharp wide angle lens in 15 mm or lower. It could be a zoom with the low end being 15 mm or lower. Of course I would prefer not to pay L lens premiums if possible. It would be nice to be at least F 2.8 or 4.0. I know I'm a dreamer counting pixels in my sleep. Thanks for any help I can get.
POVDOV wrote:
I have been torturing myself looking for a well built, picture sharp wide angle lens in 15 mm or lower. It could be a zoom with the low end being 15 mm or lower. Of course I would prefer not to pay L lens premiums if possible. It would be nice to be at least F 2.8 or 4.0. I know I'm a dreamer counting pixels in my sleep. Thanks for any help I can get.
I would suggest you consider a Sigma 14 - 24 F 2.8 ART, read the reviews. It is heavy but indicative of the build quality. I use it with a NISI filter holder and NISI filters. I think it is a great combination.
POVDOV wrote:
I have been torturing myself looking for a well built, picture sharp wide angle lens in 15 mm or lower. It could be a zoom with the low end being 15 mm or lower. Of course I would prefer not to pay L lens premiums if possible. It would be nice to be at least F 2.8 or 4.0. I know I'm a dreamer counting pixels in my sleep. Thanks for any help I can get.
If you are serious about sharpness you should be looking at primes. All the good/affordable primes I know of are manual focus and full frame - like the 15mm f2.4 Irix. Primes will be cheaper/smaller than a really good zoom.
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POVDOV wrote:
I have been torturing myself looking for a well built, picture sharp wide angle lens in 15 mm or lower. It could be a zoom with the low end being 15 mm or lower. Of course I would prefer not to pay L lens premiums if possible. It would be nice to be at least F 2.8 or 4.0. I know I'm a dreamer counting pixels in my sleep. Thanks for any help I can get.
I have a Sigma 10-20 f3.5 on my Pentax, very pleased with it.
I have the Canon 10-22 which I like very much. Distortion is fairly low for such a wide zoom and flare is very minimal.
Having owned both the 17-40L and the EF-S 10-22, I can say they are essentially the same lens in terms of ruggedness and image quality, one just having a red stripe and constant f/4 aperture. Both are widely available used. The other well regarded option is the EF-S 10-18, with the added bonus of IS.
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Yep...Daddy's little girl. They get expensive don't they?
Retired CPO wrote:
Yep...Daddy's little girl. They get expensive don't they?
Yes, and she is our baby, youngest at 25 on May 13th.
Expensive - UCLA Pre-Med we paid the freight but at University of Virginia for Medical School between a large scholarship, grants and her own Federal Loans we just pay for her car, auto insurance and one credit card for buying groceries etc. She has until next May on my health insurance then it will be just under $400 a month to continue her on the top end Kaiser health plan I now have - I checked. She says she may just enroll in the UVA student plan and re-activate her Kaiser when/if she comes back to CA or some other state with Kaiser. (All the Kaiser's in VA are around DC and a 1 1/2 hour drive for her.) Kaiser has a decade of her medical records etc in their integrated computer system plus she did a research internship for a Kaiser Surgeon in the one year break to apply and interview for med school between UCLA and UVA. She was given a choice of dress-up or scrubs when working in the labs and hospital research library. She picked scrubs and her ID/name badge just gave her name and said Orthopedics Intern. So people kept calling her Doctor thinking she was an MD Intern - she got a kick out of that and looks forward making it correct. I look forward to calling her "Dr Kitten" but absolutely do not want to need her services - she is aiming at Orthopedic Reconstructive Surgery.
Thanks everyone for your help. Still chewing it over but will decide soon.
sb
Loc: Florida's East Coast
That's not a hard question at all. The Canon 10-18mm is reportedly as good as the 10-22, but lighter in weight AND price. The Canon 10-22mm has always been the gold standard for their APS-C line. It has always been considered to have "L"-quality build and glass, but they do not use that designation on EFs lenses.
Examples:
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-221396-1.html
Thanks, I'll give it a look
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