The best camera for architectural renderings

lightwriter wrote:

BAK wrote:

Saving those who don't know European paper sizes.

Are you trying to photograph entire city blocks in a single frame?

Are you trying to include the top of six storey buildings? And higher?

Or are you trying to shoot each building in a block, one at a time, and then fit them all together?

I photographed about 1000 building for a book, using 35mm film and a 35mm perspective control lens.

That worked fine, but the buildings were houses or, at biggest / highest, three or four storey public buildings like city halls and courthouses.

The current Nikon and Canon 18-55 kit lenses will work fine, one building at a time, on a wide street.

The 10 - 18 Canon would be a good second lens, for bigger buildings or narrower streets.

As for shooting conditions - sunny, cloudy, etc.

Pay attention to shadows. Often the best days to shoot are slightly overcast, with the sky turning into a giant softbox.

BAK

No, I normally photograph the place where the building is going to be built and the surrounding buildings (sometimes the whole block, but normally only two or three buildings to each side.

The tallest one that I had to composite, which is my last work, has even floors.

I was trying to avoid buying the kit lens and another, wider one... I rather have only one lens; are the lens that I listed earlier not good enough? (the TAMRON SP 17-50 mm F/2.8 Di II VC for canon, or the Tokina AT-X PRO 12-24mm F4 (IF) DX - CANON, for example)

I suspect that 17mm or 18mm may not be wide enough for some of your purposes. Hence that's why people recommend also UWA lenses like the 10-18.