 Caron Swinscoe |
Which wide angle lens Help! I am looking to buy my first wide angle lens or my Canon 400D. Im off to the west of Ireland with my family soon and would like to combine landscape shots with shots of the boys surfing. I thought perhaps the canon 28mm f2.8 (I dont have a huge budget). The more I read the more confused Im getting. I already have a macro, 70-300 telephoto and the standard kit lens.Any advice?? Thanks
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Wide angle lenses are most effective at short to middle distances, and indoors. The perspective distortion really makes a WA lens unsuitable for long distance/landscape shots: objects 60 feet away look as if they are 600 feet away, etc. etc. You will only be able to use a narrow band of the image, and you'll have to discard 80% to 90% of all the pixels when you crop. For high-res landscapes it's much better to mount the camera with a short telephoto lens (between 80 and 100mm focal length in 35mm equivalent) on a tripod, tilt it to portrait mode, and shoot a liberally overlapping series of exposures from left to right (stay horizontal). Or v.v. of course. Back home in PP you simply stitch them together, and clean it up, and you'll have a fabulous high-res panorama that no wide-angle lens could ever create. Have fun!
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