(D700 + PC 28mm) or (D90 + 14mm wide angle)???

[style.diana@gmail.com]

Hi ,

I don't know if you give advise, but I would be pleased if I could get some technical help.

I have a Nikon D90 - which does not have a full frame lens. The main use for the camera is to shoot house interiors. (Note: I use Photoshop to correct the distortion). I regret buying the D90 but am trying to find if I can use it using a very wide angle lens rather than wasting all my money and starting all over with a full frame camera.

How successful is using an Af-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens on the D90 to give the effect of a 28mm wide angle on a full frame camera?

Are the images distorted?

Are there other problems I will encounter? Would you recommend it?

Does the 14mm have other issues? Is vignetting a serious problem?

Would I be better getting a D700 with a PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5 for this sort of work? Does anyone have experience comparing images from these 2 camera/lens combinations ?

I've read a review saying that the 14-28mm f/2.8 G AF-S D-IF N @/ f/5.6 is much a much better lens for less vignetting and flaring. Is this so?

I have a read another review which says the AF-S lens is good on on the D90. Can you recommend if one is better on the D90 than the G AF S D IF N?

Thank you in the hope for some advise,

Di

[Almond.Butterscotch]

Can't say specifically, but your math is a bit off. the 14-24 on the D90 will give you an equivalent FOV of a 21mm lens on full frame.

Also, if you don't mind fixing distortion in PS (or better yet, if you own DxO Optics Pro), then the 10.5mm might be your best bet.

[jdepould]

The 14-24 is epic (especially on full frame), the distortion is pretty low for that type of lens, and the image quality is better than most primes (maybe not the 24/1.4). I've shot it wide open on my D700 without major vignetting, so I wouldn't worry too much on that front.

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The 24 PC-E is more of a specialized lens. It has knobs for tilting and shifting the front element, which can correct for perspective distortion, among other things. You kind of have to know how to use it though.

[OsmosisStudios]

Oh boy. Let's go at this one at a time.

Originally Posted by style.diana@gmail.com

I have a Nikon D90 - which does not have a full frame lens. The main use for the camera is to shoot house interiors. (Note: I use Photoshop to correct the distortion). I regret buying the D90 but am trying to find if I can use it using a very wide angle lens rather than wasting all my money and starting all over with a full frame camera.

The D90 doesn't have a full frame sensor. It doesn't, by itself, have a lens. There are many wide-angle lenses you can get that will work well with it and give you a very wide angle of view. What kind of "distortion" are you correcting in PS? Is it keystoning?

Originally Posted by style.diana@gmail.com

How successful is using an Af-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens on the D90 to give the effect of a 28mm wide angle on a full frame camera?

For starters, the 14-24 on the D90 would give you an equivalent of a 21-36mm lens. It'll do this without fail.

Originally Posted by style.diana@gmail.com

Are the images distorted?

Like a fisheye? No. There's still going to be perspective distortion (keystoning) and there's a bit of barrel at the wide end, but it's otherwise very good

Originally Posted by style.diana@gmail.com

Are there other problems I will encounter? Would you recommend it?

Problems? Well it doesn't take filters, for one. It's huge (big and heavy) and the front element is very exposed. I'd recommend it if you need an amazing ultrawide. That being siad, for the D90 there are other options that'll cost you half as much.

Originally Posted by style.diana@gmail.com

Does the 14mm have other issues? Is vignetting a serious problem?

Other issues? Well like I said, it's heavy and big, but vignetting isnt a problem. It shows a bit of barrel distortion at the wide end and pincushion distortion at the longer end.

Originally Posted by style.diana@gmail.com

Would I be better getting a D700 with a PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5 for this sort of work? Does anyone have experience comparing images from these 2 camera/lens combinations ?

Potentially. It depends on how serious you are about what you're doing. At this point I think a PC lens would be a bit above your skill level (no offense meant, of course). Comparing the two cameras and lenses is difficult as they're all equally as good at what they do, but what they do is very very different.

Originally Posted by style.diana@gmail.com

I've read a review saying that the 14-28mm f/2.8 G AF-S D-IF N @/ f/5.6 is much a much better lens for less vignetting and flaring. Is this so?

The 14-24 f/4.8 is, arguably, Nikon's best lens. Ever. It's gonna rock on whichever body and at whatever aperture you choose. The lens is fantastic.

Originally Posted by style.diana@gmail.com

I have a read another review which says the AF-S lens is good on on the D90. Can you recommend if one is better on the D90 than the G AF S D IF N?

G, AF-S, D, IF and N are all different terms for Nikon technology. Refer to the lens as the 14-24 f/2.8.

As for using it on the D90, it really depends. Nikon make 2 excellent ultrawide lenses for the cropped-sensor cameras: the 12-24 and 10-24, which will give you 18-36 and 15-36 equivalent focal ranges.

That being said, neither is a PC lens. PC lenses are totally different animals and require a LOT of technique, a LOT of learning and a LOT of patience. You would have to spend a lot of time learning to use it to get even close to the right images.

Frankly, I think you're in over your head as it is. You're comparing a $2200 lens to another $1700 lens, but neither has anything in common with the other besides focal length. They fulfill very different roles and that doesn't seem to be obvious.

If you're looking for an ultra-wide lens for your D90, then I can easily reccommend the Nikon 10-24 f/3.5-4.5, as I have one.

[Almond.Butterscotch]

Originally Posted by OsmosisStudios

The 14-24 f/4.8 is, arguably, Nikon's best lens. Ever. It's gonna rock on whichever body and at whatever aperture you choose. The lens is fantastic.

You mean 14-24 f/2.8, right?

[OsmosisStudios]

Hush you.

My point stands.