September 8th, 2010
While having a lens profile for Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) isn’t that big of a deal, having one for your wide angle lens makes life easier and you can to lens correction for a whole shoot essentially automatically. I was interested to find a chart that summarizes the current state of all the lenses that [...]
May 6th, 2008
I get asked this question all the time and there are an amazing number of Google searches this site catches with these question as the search term. Of coarse there is no simple answer. The answer depends on your budget and what kind of DSLR body you have. I use to have a real estate [...]
October 15th, 2007
Cherie Irwin is purchasing a new wide-angle lens for her Canon 30D and wants some advice. Cherie says: “I’m thinking about purchasing a new wide angle lens, since I am experiencing some major distortions and focusing issues with mine after I dropped it on the ground. I took into my local camera shop, and they [...]
June 18th, 2007
I got a e-mail from Dom, a German photographer that wanted to raise the issue of “over doing it” with ultra-wide angle lenses. He says: “But there´s one point I´m straightly opposite to yours and that´s the lens. I would recommend just a 28-35mm lens on 35mm/fullframe (d)SLRs or for digital DX nothing less then [...]
March 9th, 2007
I want to highlight another contribution by Marc Lacoste, of Nantes, FR. Marc has pointed out a number of very significant items of interest to readers of this blog. His comment on the last post that referrers to the wide-angle lens tests on www.16-9.net . These tests are a real gem! Very detailed and complete. [...]
January 16th, 2007
I wanted to highlight some links that Marc Lacoste, our French contributor, passed along. www.flickr.com/groups/sigma10-20 A flickr group for Sigma 10-20mm users. www.16-9.net/lens_tests A site that has some very interesting reviews of wide-angle lenses. Remercie beaucoup Marc .
