 Bill Coulter |
Wide Angle Lens Good Afternoon! I have a Canon 60D and would like to purchase a Mid-Range Wide angle lens. My question is really 2 questions. 1 Should I Buy a Canon lens? 2 Is there another comparable Lens? If anyone could offer some suggestions I would gratly appreciate it. Bill C.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
You don't have to buy Canon. There are other brands that are made to fit Canon cameras. Sigma is probably the most popular third party lens maker, followed by Tokina or Tamron. With some lens reveiews, Sigma and others have been rated to be just as good, if not even better at some focal lengths, than the camera manufacture's lenses regarding optics. However, regarding Canon's L series lenses, those are very good with their optics. They're the most expensive of their line, but the quality is good. Third party lenses are usually less expensive. Part of that you may find due to the use of plastic, where Canon or Nikon may use metal. Occasionally you hear about getting a new lens from a third party that doesn't communicate with a camera it was made to fit. That's due to companies like Sigma, Tamron, etc... having to backwards engineer their lenses. And sometimes it doesn't come out quite right, and it requires sending the lens back to get it fixed. It's been a while since I've heard of anybody around here with that problem, but it does occur. So go thru the same old check list of budget, availability, comfort, what other people say who've used it.
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chrisbudny.com - Chris Budny Contact Chris Budny Chris Budny's Gallery |
An important reminder---don't forget the crop-factor of your 60D sensor. So if you buy a "standard lens" 16mm, the 60D will make the field of view behave like a 26mm lens - not nearly as wide-angle as you thought you were getting! Canon's EFS line of lenses accounts for this... so that the EFS10-22mm (by far, my favorite lens to use!) behaves like a 16-35mm traditional lens. I only know of one Canon standard lens wider than this - 14mm prime - before fisheye effects come into play. (Of course, the EFS line of lenses won't migrate to Canon's full-frame bodies later, if you are considering a 5D or 1D somewhere soon down the road.) I love my EFS10-22 so much that whenever I do go to a 5D, I know I'll have to buy either the 14prime, or the 16-35L, to make up for losing the 10-22. I suspect some of the brands Gregory mentioned, probably make "EFS-equivalent" mounts, given the huge number of Rebels and xxD models out there.
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