Topic: your favorite superwide, with stipulations

[stirinthesauce]

What is your favorite superwide lens, with stipulations.  Must be a budget lens meaning L glass need not be mentioned.  Also, must be able to work on a full frame camera (EF, no EF-S).  Any brand welcomed.

Discuss   

[stevetoney]

I wish I had the experience to be able to provide a worthy recommendation, but weren't you the person that was fluffing the Tokina...what is it a 11-16 f2.8...back when I was doing my wide angle zoom lens search?  I know it gets good ratings.

[gearscout]

What is your favorite superwide lens, with stipulations.  Must be a budget lens meaning L glass need not be mentioned.  Also, must be able to work on a full frame camera (EF, no EF-S).  Any brand welcomed.

Discuss   

Well, it's hardly "budget glass" but what's the point of listing super wides made of plastic?  Nikon 14-24 is my favorite.  Full frame, full performance.



Firefall - June 2009 - Atlanta



All shot @14mm/Nikon 14-24 2.8

[stirinthesauce]

very nice images^^

[Brian E.]

Love my Canon 28mm f/1.8 prime

[Brian Skalinder]

Love my Canon 28mm f/1.8 prime

Beauty!  Just curious:  did you adjust contrast / color curves at all in the pic posted?  And do you know who washed, waxed, & buffed the car before the wedding?  Every time I look at the pic, my eyes glaze over when I hit the color of the car and I have trouble pulling 'em away.

[phanophish]

My favorite lens is my 17-55/2.8.  Beautiful glass and super sharp.  I don't own a full frame body so have very few FF lenses.  I also like my sigma 10-20 for more creative stuff but it is not the caliber of glass as the Nikon 17-55.

[Teen Wolf Blitzer]

stirinthesauce  left?   

[Brian E.]

Love my Canon 28mm f/1.8 prime

Beauty!  Just curious:  did you adjust contrast / color curves at all in the pic posted?  And do you know who washed, waxed, & buffed the car before the wedding?  Every time I look at the pic, my eyes glaze over when I hit the color of the car and I have trouble pulling 'em away.

Haha.  Yes, I upped vibrance a couple notches and boosted the contrast just a bit.  I did it on purpose, it's not supposed to look 100% natural.  But I think it turned out awesome!

[phanophish]

Love my Canon 28mm f/1.8 prime

Beauty!  Just curious:  did you adjust contrast / color curves at all in the pic posted?  And do you know who washed, waxed, & buffed the car before the wedding?  Every time I look at the pic, my eyes glaze over when I hit the color of the car and I have trouble pulling 'em away.

Haha.  Yes, I upped vibrance a couple notches and boosted the contrast just a bit.  I did it on purpose, it's not supposed to look 100% natural.  But I think it turned out awesome!

Personally I like nearly everything about it.  The depth of field blurring the B&G and guests in background.  Rich over saturated almost cartoon like colors.  Reflections of guests, and I'm guessing you, in the paint.  It really is a great image that you can dig deeper in to and holds the viewers attention.  It definitely a great image.  I'd love to see another frame with the B&G's face but I'm not sure it would end up being a better image as I do kind of like the abstraction you get by cropping them out of the frame.

[Brian E.]

thanks a lot Phish   I'm the reflection on the left.  Here's a couple more, even though I'm sure it'll let you down, haha: