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Is there an extraordinary wide-angle for mirrorless? Or using a DSLR lens with an adapter?

Started Dec 8, 2013 | Discussions thread
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giliath Regular Member • Posts: 257
Is there an extraordinary wide-angle for mirrorless? Or using a DSLR lens with an adapter?

As a fan of wideangle lens, I can't find an extraordinary wideangle lens for now. That's sad...

Among all the current mirrorless systems, nearly all the wide-angle lens suffer from high level of distortion. (The manufacturers want their lens to be small and cheap, so they ignore this problem and correct the distortion in the camera.)

The samsung 12-24 lens is sharp enough for me, even the the corner is acceptable. But it is not that wide. More importantly, the distortion is not well controlled and the auto-correction can't be disabled...(I know it can be disabled by using capture one or dxo optics, but the live view of the camera can only show the photo after correction. So I don't know what the photo like before the correction.)

So is it a good idea to choose a DSLR wideangle lens for my NX300? I know for a wideangle lens manual focus is not a very big problem. But according to my experience from using 85mm, a small body+ a heavy lens make it is not that convenient to do anything manually...

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