1/17/2024 0 Comments Wide angle lens for frame canonWhen I responded that this was a single frame taken with the Rokinon, the immediate response was, “That is my next lens purchase.” Yep, if you want go to wide, really wide, I think this Rokinon may just be your best choice, but it is not for everyone. I recently shared this nightscape that I took with the Rokinon featured below, and one of the common questions I got was, “How many frames is this shot?” The assumption was that I HAD to have taken multiple frames and stitched them together into a vertorama to get this much information in the frame. Look at how different the angle of view is with each successive shot: I set up the tripod at a distance where the 24mm Tamron barely covered the bench. The difference even between 14mm and 17mm is stunning. To give you a point of comparison, here is the difference between my 24mm Tamron (84°) 17mm Canon (104°) and the Rokinon at 14mm (114°). The field of view on a full frame body is a whopping 114°. It has an extremely low price for its optical quality, and 14mm on a full frame body is EXTREMELY wide. And, as I wrote in this opinion piece for PhotoNewsFlash, an UWA (Ultra Wide Angle) lens is almost never going to be someone’s sole or even primary lens.įor these reasons and others, one of the most compelling options that I have come across in the arena of UWA’s is the Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 Aspherical. The vast majority of photographers simply don’t shoot extreme wide angle enough to prioritize that type of lens in their spending budget. None of that is a problem if you are a professional landscape photographer or have a lot of paying architectural work (or, I guess, are just rich!), but for many people the high asking price of these lenses effectively removes them from the equation. If you can afford these, there are some great choices there, but most of these lenses start near the $2000 mark. That leads us to prime lenses, of which there are some excellent options, including some Zeiss lenses, the Canon tilt-shift lenses (a bit more specialized), and Canon’s own 14mm f/2.8L II. Other current options are some 3 rd party zooms from Tamron, Sigma, and Tokina, but none of them are considered superior to the options I’ve already presented. Another favorite is the Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II, but despite its lofty price tag it has its own optical limitations. All of these are good lenses, by the way, but none blew my mind. My personal experience is that I have owned the Canon EF-S 10-22mm, a Tokina 12-24mm f/4 (both while shooting crop sensor bodies) and (currently) the EF 17-40L. This has become perhaps the greatest challenge for Canon shooters, because frankly all of the options come with certain liabilities. Great, right? It is, until you get to the other end of the equation – the wide angle…errr…angle. The truth of the matter is that Canon has been on a roll with many of its recent lens releases, starting back with the 70-300L, the new 24-70mm f/2.8L II, the amazing 200-400mm f/4L IS + 1.4x, refreshes on several of the other super-teles (300mm f/2.8L II and 400mm f/2.8L II), and even a series of non-L primes that have been very well reviewed (24mm f/2.8 IS, 28mm f/2.8 IS, 35mm f/2 IS, and 40mm f/2.8 Pancake). Canon is renowned for its range of telephoto lenses that are considered to be the best.
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