wide angle?

[spellbound]

Originally Posted by Carl911

Without gate crashing this thread, I also enjoy taking landscapes and have decided to sell my Canon 17-85 to upgrade to better landscape lense.
I have been really torn between the 17-35 L series lense or the 10-22 ES lense as mentioned in this thread.
Given that my camera is a 40D with a cropped sensor I want as close to 17 as possible on the wide end so the 10-22 works out nearly spot on. The 17-35 becomes nearer 26-64 from memory.
Does anyone have experience with both of these lenses and if so which would you most likely opt for given its main use as landscape.
They can both be bought for about the same price so it just comes down to which is best for the job.
Also, I assume the 10-22 is not classed as a fisheye lense. I cannot see anything indicating this despite being able to get some rather interesting results if too close taking a portrait.
I dont really want out of shape landscapes.

Cheers in advance, hope this is not hijacking too much but it seemed silly to post a new post given that this one is more or less on the same topic.

Carl

I shoot a 400D with a Canon 10-22 and it is the one lens that is affixed to my camera the most! Sure...I use it for landscapes/seascapes, but I love it for closer work too. Love shooting from lown down angles with it and creating some interesting looking pictures. The build quality on it is excellent (far superior to the Sigma) and the quality of image is stunning. Not the best lens for close up portrait work...the distortion can just make someone look horrid, but for static objects or portraits at 22mm, it is very good.

Check my stream for examples.

[jeffreyp]

no.. you do not need one. save your pennies. If you have photoshop of some kind or access to: set your camera on a tripod and take several continuous pictures until you have the subject covered in whole. then you can photomerge them together with photoshop and crop them to the size you need... same effect as a wide angel but now its a panoramic of multi megapixel proportions.. 3 rulesl to follow to make good (pano) pictures: 1. Use manual exposure and pick one overall good exposure for all frames (use the same exposure in each frame). 2. Use manual focus on the subject and use the same focus in each frame. 3. Overlap the frames. When panning to the next (continuous) frame over lap the fram you're panning from by at least 1/4 of a frame. When you pan to the next frame.. you can go up, down, left or right or a combination of all, Photoshop will fix it later. You can see some of the examples of my (panoramic) pictures at: Welcome to jeffreypphoto.com

[kirbinster]

When shooting several shots to stitch together besides shooting raw it is best to shoot with a set white balance (not auto). While we all know you can adjust white balance afterwords, by having all the shots taken at a set white balance it just makes it easier. I have taken some wide angle pano shots by shooting at 300mm and then stitching the shots together - this allows me to get much more detail of far away stuff.

[EdHamlin]

I am going to thow a dollars worth more into the kitty here. I have shot a lot os subject a the way back to the early 70's such as War Birds at Air Races, Mountain Scenes in the Sierra Nevadas I grew up near Sacramento CA.

When I start the venture in Photography I learned a lot from two People. My Father who love B&W film and also Ansel Adams. I didn't study under him) I learned a lot from each of his documented set ups (exif meta data for digital) He like to us e longer lenses and longer exposures for greater DOF I think I f I remeber correctly the shortest he used for Landscape was a 35mm zeiss planar( could be wrong on the make). That is when he use a Hasselblad in meduim format. The Large formats he used some big lenses.

I have found that I like soot with a longer lens and stopped down as much as I can and shoot at a 100ISO. I haven't shot any landscape with my D3 yet. Anyway the short of it take a look at Ansel Adams books. You can lean a lot about filters for B&W and lot more. I restudy his books regularly as I always learn something new.

If anything you may want to have faster glass but until you perfect your skills why bother with 1500-2000 for a fast wide angle lens. J MHO