On Aug 20, 2012, at 3:56 PM, Walt Gilbert wrote: > What would be the best, most affordable option -- best bang for the lowest > buck -- for the wider landscapes? All I really care about is the focal length > and IQ -- everything else is mere window dressing as far as I'm concerned. > I'm essentially looking for something very common and highly regarded.
It seems to me that the least expensive way to get wide angles and high image quality is to stitch multiple exposures together in a panorama. Put the 50mm prime on your camera, mount it on the tripod in vertical orientation and when you take a bunch of photos and stitch them together, you even get higher resolution than you would with a wide angle lens. If you want to go all out, you calculate the nodal point, bend some steel into a 90 degree bracket, drill a hole at the nodal point, buy a 1/4-20 nut and you are golden. Mount it on the K100, and you get landscapes with the colors of the K100 sensor, the field of view of a wide angle, and better resolution than the K-5. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
