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Does anyone have a recommendation for a wide angle lens for the Sony Alpha series? I have an a330 and would like to pick up a wide angle lens. Currently I have the stock 18-55, a 100-300, a 28mm prime and a 50mm prime. I would love to get one of the Minolta AF series wide angles, or a Sigma comparable.. as well as a good fisheye, but I have no real clue as to what type of wide angle or fisheye to look for..
Besides the Tokina 11-16/2.8 I recommended earlier, I was looking at Samyang 8mm/3.5 fisheye last night. I'm sold on the results. If you want less distortion and some flexibility (zoom), Tokina would be the best choice IMO. But definitely look at the Samyang (it is offered under many brand names, Rikenon being one). It is also less than half the price (under $300). It has an angle of view of 180 degrees on APS-C.
I believe it is a manual lens though, but then, I seem to prefer manual lenses over automatic these days (as long as they are a pleasure to use... something as fast as my Minolta 200mm/2.8 G are better left in auto). It just may be my next lens purchase.
This is typical of what you'll get with ANY ultra wide angle lens. It is easily corrected with software if you shoot RAW (many reasons to shoot RAW besides this).
LR3 has built-in lens correction. You can manually correct this very easily with their tool. In fact, there is already a profile for the Sigma 10-20 already installed in LR3. Very easy to fix this way.
There are also other standalone lens correction applications available out there.
Would almost need to think about a LR3 option to do lens correction, because what the lenses do is sometimes what I like about them.
In other words, I'd probably prefer to take 2 or 3 photos with my 17-55mm and stitch them together for something wide with less distortion.
But with my 11-16, the leaning angles and stuff are what I like in the shot many times.
But nothing wrong with having the extra edit tools though. Better too much than too little.
Yes, sometimes the distortion makes the photo. Unfortunately, if you're shooting architecture it doesn't compliment the photo. And stitching takes too long. Fixing the distortion is much faster.
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