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

Started Mar 12, 2015 | Discussions thread
AxelHawk Regular Member • Posts: 217
Re: Lens purchasing dilemma - wide prime or 18mm kit lens [NX300]

Caio Everton wrote:

ocphotodad wrote:

Caio Everton wrote:

I just bought the 12-24mm on sale. I might get my hands around it next week. Every review sayts it's a sharp ultra-wide lens. You should take a look at it.

I like what I've seen with the 12-24 Samsung lens but in my book wider is better, that is why I have been doing so many panorama's lately. The 8-16mm from sigma might work by focusing manually but I cannot get over the no filter thing

The distortion is remarkable on an 8-16mm lens: perfect for real estate. It would fit perfectly with Samsung's line up too: 8-16, 16-50, and then 50-150. So Samsung if you're listening, can the 11-24 2.8 and go for an 8-16mm with weather sealing please

The thing is, here in Brazil, adapters and lenses are really expensive. I think there's only official retailer from Canon and Nikon (besides Samsung), and even they are expensive as hell. Samsung's lenses are very affordable around here, with sales from time to time. It's the main reason I got into the NX system.

Samsung here in Brazil is less expensive than many other countries, except for Korea. I did some reasearch before buying my NX300M

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