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Lens purchasing dilemma - wide prime or 18mm kit lens [NX300]

Started Mar 12, 2015 | Discussions thread
ttbek Veteran Member • Posts: 4,869
Re: Lens purchasing dilemma - wide prime or 18mm kit lens [NX300]

One thing to make sure of for stitching is good sharpness across the frame for whatever lens you want to use. Also, plan your exposure for the whole image so that something doesn't end up too bright or dark. You don't want to vary the exposure in the stitches. .. unless you're up for some careful work to hide it later.

I'm really liking your shots, wonderful light and I especially appreciate the bird shots.

If you do end up going for a lens, the Samyang lenses are nicely priced and are excellent. The caveat is that they're fully manual, but I believe you said you were shooting that way anyway ^_^. Personally I got the 14mm because I also am using it on my 5D, which is FF so it's even a bit wider that way than the 10mm is on NX cameras. It also the gives me about 21 equivalent on my NX300, which is also a focal length I didn't have covered.

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