Sigma makes an 8-16mm zoom, specifically for APS-C, in several mounts. It's $1100 list, but street price is around $700. They had one of these at the local camera store but I didn't have much time to look at it.
<http://www.sigmaphoto.com/shop/8-16mm-f45-56-dc-hsm-sigma> gs George Sinos -------------------- [email protected] www.georgesphotos.net plus.georgesinos.com On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:56 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually no, I'm not. I remember seeing one somewhere, but I was looking > for a link just now and can't find it. Even a lens with the equivalent of a > 12mm AOV on 35mm for APS-C would be 8mm. Still a made out of unobtanium. > > On 4/25/2012 1:48 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:33 PM, P. J. Alling >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Ultra wide is the biggest deficiency. You can get 10mm rectilinear >>> lenses >>> for 24x36mm formats, the equivalent in APS-C would ~6.7mm. Which would >>> seem >>> to be extremely difficult to engineer, at a reasonable price with >>> reasonable >>> quality. >> >> Are you sure about that? The widest rectilinear full-frame lenses on >> Canon and Nikon's websites are 14mm, and this (undated) Luminous >> Landscape article says the widest overall is a 12mm Voigtländer (for >> rangefinder, not SLR): >> >> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/lenses/ultrawide.shtml >> >> The 10-20mm APS-C zooms aren't quite as wide as the 14mm full-frame >> lenses, but it's pretty close. >> > > > -- > Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid > a lengthily search. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
