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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Wide angle lens suggestions please

Well surely it depends on what Paul wants to get in his shot? The 8R is certainly the best extreme rectilinear wide angle lens, but it's almost TOO wide. It's viewpoint lends itself almost as a special effect. IMHO the 11-16mm range is about as wide as I would want to go if I didn't want the lens to start imposing a certain stylised look on the shot. In many cases, even 11-16mm is too wide for a naturalistic feel, but it's very useful in confined spaces where you wouldn't get the shots otherwise.
 
ericyoung said:
Well surely it depends on what Paul wants to get in his shot? The 8R is certainly the best extreme rectilinear wide angle lens, but it's almost TOO wide. It's viewpoint lends itself almost as a special effect. IMHO the 11-16mm range is about as wide as I would want to go if I didn't want the lens to start imposing a certain stylised look on the shot. In many cases, even 11-16mm is too wide for a naturalistic feel, but it's very useful in confined spaces where you wouldn't get the shots otherwise.
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Thats an interesting observation, I want it to look as natural as possible. I have ordered the Optitek mount. and will order the tokina tomorrow. cheers
Paul
 
8mm & 10mm lenses are never part of a set they come as individual lenses.

When one is using these extremely wide angle lenses the trick is to having something big in foreground to one side of frame or to track past something to show a huge perspective. To just use them as a wide angle to fit everything in frame is really boring
obviously IMHO
 
Got the tokina 11 17 it's just the job.

Thanks all
Paul
 
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