What wide angle lens do you recommend?

[Icedheat]

Hi,

I'm looking for a wide angle lens......what do u peep recommend?

[chalib]

Originally Posted by Icedheat Hi, I'm looking for a wide angle lens......what do u peep recommend?

What body are you using?

[engrmariano]

since you did not include the body your using & your budget, i'll recommend 14mm f/2.8L.

[unseenshadows]

Originally Posted by engrmariano since you did not include the body your using & your budget, i'll recommend 14mm f/1.4L.

=D =D =D

[diver-hloc]

For Crop camera....

Canon's EF-S 10-22mm f3.5-4.5....
or
Sigma's 10-20mm f4-5.6..... if you can wait, then 10-20mm f3.5

Tamron & Tokina also have Wide Angle lens.... but only at 11mm or 12mm at their widest.

[KLthree]

Tamron has the 10-24mm WA lens as well. The 11-18mm is the old model.

[paisatge]

14mm f2.8 and the 24mm TSE

[ridehomewithme]

carl zeiss distagon T 18mm f3.5. haha. too bad it's MF.

again, really depends on your body. and your budget. 1.6x crop get the 10.22. if full frame, 17.40L sounds like a good choice.

[Tahugoreng]

sorry hijack your post for awhile i got question
is Canon's EF-S 10-22mm f3.5-4.5 suitable for wedd event?

[Shen siung]

Originally Posted by Tahugoreng sorry hijack your post for awhile i got question is Canon's EF-S 10-22mm f3.5-4.5 suitable for wedd event?

If not wrong there are people using this, but have to be careful on the framing, to reduce any unwanted distortion on people...

[Tahugoreng]

ic, ic,, but how about the bokeh, i'm sure you still need a lil bit bokeh for event right? especially wedding.
i dont think this Canon's EF-S 10-22mm f3.5-4.5 can give good bokeh. am i wrong?

[frankchn]

Originally Posted by engrmariano since you did not include the body your using & your budget, i'll recommend 14mm f/2.8L.

A TS-E 17mm f/4L would be a nice choice too =p

[midicity]

Originally Posted by Tahugoreng ic, ic,, but how about the bokeh, i'm sure you still need a lil bit bokeh for event right? especially wedding. i dont think this Canon's EF-S 10-22mm f3.5-4.5 can give good bokeh. am i wrong?

On the contrary, the bokeh on the 10-22 is supposed to be quite good. However, you're not likely to see the bokeh much because UWAs' DOF is quite great, quite hard to have situations where you can see it

[Icedheat]

Opps! forgot to mention........i'm using the Canon 40D....

Anyway i got a friend that recommend me the 17-40mm....i think it's that one...correct me if i'm wrong...so what u all think about that? or is the 14mm better?

[unseenshadows]

17mm on your 40D will give a wide angle equivalent of 27mm, which would be wide enough for general purpose photography but not the true 17mm FOV. For that you will want a 10-22mm.

Suggest you borrow both lenses and see the FOV for yourself.

[james]

What about a tokina 116?

[pikapig]

im using tokina 12-24mm..F4..the constant aperture is good.

if u r on budget, this is one good lens to use.

Sigma has another 10-20mm which has good reviews, problem is, do you realli need that wide?

[2evans]

Originally Posted by pikapig im using tokina 12-24mm..F4..the constant aperture is good. if u r on budget, this is one good lens to use. Sigma has another 10-20mm which has good reviews, problem is, do you realli need that wide?

Well if we assume that the TS has a kit lens, i.e. something like 18-55, a 17-40 pretty much overlaps with that range.

[calebk]

Originally Posted by Tahugoreng ic, ic,, but how about the bokeh, i'm sure you still need a lil bit bokeh for event right? especially wedding. i dont think this Canon's EF-S 10-22mm f3.5-4.5 can give good bokeh. am i wrong?

Not true. What dictates that event photography must have photos with shallow DoF (not bokeh - bokeh refers to the quality of the out of focus blur)?