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Wide angle Nikon lens question
Aug 8, 2018 06:30:17 #
imagemeister wrote:
For single exposure, Irix 15mm manual focus. For pano in portrait orientation, Nikkor 24mm f2 manual focus.
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Never tried the Irix, but the 24 is pretty good for pano especially on a crop camera.
Aug 8, 2018 06:33:18 #
kskarma wrote:
I'll have to 'second' this idea....even though I h... (show quote)
I usually overlap 50% - it keeps things like barrel distortion under control when you stitch. You can't have too much overlap, but you can certainly have too little.
Aug 8, 2018 15:23:11 #
Gene51 wrote:
I But it is hard to use because it does not have an automatic aperture, or even a preset like the old fully manual lenses. You have to focus in a dark viewfinder at the shooting aperture. It's a pain to focus and compose at F4, then close the lens down.
It is much more doable when using an EVF and focus peaking ......rather than an OVF.
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Aug 8, 2018 17:58:28 #
Aug 8, 2018 21:03:57 #
imagemeister wrote:
It is much more doable when using an EVF and focus peaking ......rather than an OVF.
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It is.
Aug 12, 2018 17:06:40 #
Sep 7, 2021 14:35:37 #
stanperry wrote:
Right. I’m using a Nikon D500. My price range is cheap with good quality (unreasonable of course, but it is what it is)
I have found the Tamron 15-30 is great for that and it's an f:2.8. not terribly expensive either.
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Sep 7, 2021 17:24:43 #
For newbies, I suggest you call up Ken Rockwell's post on wide angle lens. It was, and is, very helpful for newbies like me as it dwells on how the use of a wide-angle lens should be approached.
Sep 7, 2021 21:56:06 #
Sep 9, 2021 17:13:03 #
bpulv wrote:
Try doing a panorama inside a European cathedral or castle, a museum, building interiors, etc. where tripods or even monopods are banned. If you are using your camera for travel, you need a super-wide.
If you can hand-hold a camera for a single shot, there is no reason you can't shoot a panorama - indoors or outdoors. Super wides are specialty lenses that are rarely used correctly.
https://www.digitalphotomentor.com/5-mistakes-beginners-make-using-a-wide-angle-lens-and-how-to-avoid-them/
With just a couple of very rare and expensive exceptions (Zeiss Biogon and a few others), they all have extension distortion, volume anamorphosis and in many cases considerable simple and complex (mustache) distortion.While the barrel or complex distortion can be corrected with a good lens profile, volume anamorphosis can be somewhat corrected (DXO Viewpoint is the best for this), and to my knowledge there is no correction for extension distortion. Real Estate agents who do their own photography have tons of images where extension distortion makes a walk in closet look like a master bedroom, and many of their images will have severely distorted (stretched and deformed) features near the corners and edges.
Here is a short article on shooting hand-held panoramas:
https://petapixel.com/2016/10/27/stitching-panorama-forget-wide-angle-lens-home/
About a third of the panoramas I shoot are done hand-held -
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