broken calsan
Registered: May 2007
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 1441
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Review Date: Tue, 27 October 2009
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 10
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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Wiiiiiiiide!
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Cons:
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Big and heavy
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It's a wonderful lens. In a word "Wow!"
On paper, it looks like it's a slow lens, however, reality is that you use wide angles with the aperture at F8-F11. Having said that, it can be successfully hand held in available light, as you only need 1/10th. Have taken photos at 1/5th without a tripod. To get the best out of it, I do normally use a tripod and F11. At these apertures it will have everything in focus across whole 110 degrees.
The best thing: unlike the wide end of your 18-50 style lens, this is optimised for the wide angle and puts detail into every available pixel. It's quite a revelation! Puts full frame wide angle alternatives to shame - gets you 15mm equivalent without the usual heavy vignetting, purple fringing, flare and so on that dog wide angle lenses, plus it's half the size.
Think of it as an 'un-zoom' lens. Everything looks really far away when you look through this - like the wrong end of a telescope. Can fit a skyscraper in frame whilst standing on it's doormat.
Comes with a nice case. Build quality is very impressive.
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Calum
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