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need a fast, ultra wide, full frame lens. something under 20mm.

Started Sep 10, 2014 | Questions thread
ericktodd
ericktodd Regular Member • Posts: 416
Re: need a fast, ultra wide, full frame lens. something under 20mm.
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solomonshv wrote:

i currently have a canon 16-35 f/2.8L II. while i like the lens mostly, sometimes the images are softer than i would like them to be. and the distortion is just ridiculous at smaller focal lengths.

The 16-35 doesn't have much distortion, its considered a pretty clean lens from the distortion side.

Unless yours is unusually bad, you are probably talking about "distortion" from being Ultra Wide Angle (which is not distortion, is just the extreme stretching and exaggeration that happens with super wide angle lenses).

So you should know that the greatest optical 15mm lens in the world will have the identical exaggeration as your 16mm (except even worse since 15mm is wider) as you see it.

Tilt Shift is your only real option if you want to improve the natural exaggeration of wide angle lenses, and even then it won't be perfect.

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