On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, I confess to being a relative newbie in taking photography > seriously, but, um... what would you use a lens like that for? I have > the 21mm pancake Limited and boy, it grabs a huge piece of the > landscape... -Tim > - Show quoted text -
Tim, The 21 is about where wide angle begins for APS-C cameras. It's a great lens, but not all that wide. The 15 is right around the 90 degree FoV range that is the bread and butter for real wide-angle shooting. Personally I like to go a bit wider, I generally used my 10-20 at 10mm when I was still shooting APS-C and now my Tamron 17/3.5 is my go to lens for wide-angle work (Equivalent to an 11.5mm on APS-C, I'm shooting 35mm film these days) Here's a couple of examples of what sort of wide-angle work I do: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3007/2735532996_1204b11fa8_o.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3037/2500371507_7595d86819_o.jpg -Adam -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
