Lens
| Coverage | Mount | Weight | Length/Diam | Street Price (est.) |
Tamron 11-18/3.5-5.6 | APS-C | EF/Nik | 375g | 78mm/82mm | RM 1824 |
Tokina 12-24/4 | APS-C | EF/Nik | 570g | 89.5mm/84mm | RM 1600 |
Canon 10-22/3.5-4.5 | APS-C | EF-S | 385g | 90mm/83.5mm | RM 2560 |
Sigma 12-24/4.5-5.6 | Full frame 35mm | EF/Nik | 615g | 100mm/87mm | RM 2240 |
Sigma 10-20/4-5.6 | APS-C | EF/Nik | 470g | 81mm/83.5mm | RM 1600 |
Nikon 12-24/4 | APS-C | Nik | 500g | 89mm/81mm | RM 3040 |
source from:http://photo.net/equipment/wideangle-dslr
If you are interested about all above lens performance and also features, feel free to visit the link above.
Personally, if you have the budget I would recommend to go for Canon 10-22 if you plan to stay on APS-C for long. Since full frame body will be more expensive we are going for Budget Stuff. The second best will be sigma 12-24 if you plan to for full frame later. Of course if you want to go for the widest sigma 10-20 will be the best at the price tag of RM 1,600. But bear in mind if you are going to shoot landscape, the aperture is not really a problem since we will be using some where slower than F/8.0
If you are low on budget, and you want to have another wide angle lens, perhaps there will be another alternative solution. Wide lens conversion lens.
All images are taken from same spot outside my condo. I doubt this is 7.65mm Focus length. I think it should be around 12mm. according to the 50mm test.
This is the non-converter 17mm. As you can see from the comparison. The converted lens is indeed wider and can capture more stuff.
This is the 24mm non converted focus length. I took this image to make comparison below image. Which is 50mm converted.
This is 50mm Converted image. Theoretically it should have 22.5m But it seems it is not wider than 24mm as compare to above. So I took another 35mm and also 42mm. Later for comparison. The closest I found is about 35-36mm.
This is 36mm non converted image I took after I took all above images. The settings and angle might be abit different. But nonetheless it is almost the same like a 35mm. The yellow crane has moved from previous shot. So don't use the yellow crane at right side for comparison. This image pan to right while the above image pan to left.
Well now you have a cheap 12-35mm F/2.8 with the cost of RM 200. It is F/2.8 remember and the zoom range is from 12 to 35 is about 3x from what you have on any general zoom. Keep in mind that the performance at wide open is not as high as non converted F/2.8 but it still can give you very good image quality depend how you capture it. If you are going for landscape and HDR this will be a very good converted lens.
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