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Wide/landscape lens for my NX300?

Started Jan 3, 2014 | Discussions thread
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CardigansFan New Member • Posts: 21
Wide/landscape lens for my NX300?

The two widest lenses I have are the 20mm pancake and 20-50mm kit lens. I'm looking for something wider, although I'm not sure which to get.

The 12-24mm seems like the most obvious choice, but its also the most expensive and also largest/heaviest.

There's the 16mm pancake, which I'm leaning toward, but I've read the image quality isn't too good until you get to like f/11 to reduce distortion. I don't mind the aperture too much since I'm almost always taking pictures with a tripod and shutter release anyway, but its a concern if the actual image quality is still sub-par.

And then there's the 10mm fisheye, which would offer the widest view, but I don't know the first thing about "correcting" such images to appear flat/straight, and I'm assuming the edited results would end up somewhere between 12 and 16mm at best (meaning the other two lenses would save a step in the process).

Thoughts? I did read about the new 16-50mm lenses, but I doubt they'll be out anytime, and I'll end up with one of them when I swap my NX300 for the NX30.

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