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The best camera for architectural renderings

Started Oct 24, 2016 | Questions thread
BAK Forum Pro • Posts: 26,020
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About the 12 - 24 lens.

I have no idea how good you want your photos to be, and how many different uses you'll make of the photos.

My son designs gardens, and he shoots pictures of the locations before he gets working with design software. He wants lot of shots to use in presentations.

The 12 mm wide end is probably too wide to be much use; various kinds of distortion.

But I think the 24mm end may get too much in the picture, assuming you have more than one purpose for your photographs.

I spent some time this afternoon looking at Google streetview images of the Superdry store and other buildings on Regent Street. There was a wide range of street widths, but some were so narrow I'd like wider that 18mm. But for most shots, 18mm would be fine.

But if I was a British architect, and I wanted to make slide shows, I'd want some closeups and greater / closer details.

By the way, I'm not an architect, but I was the editor of a construction magazine, and am very used to looking at pictures of buildings.

So, I'm back to an 18-55 lens and a 10 - 18 EF-S lens.

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