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Wide Angle Lens - opinions please

Started Mar 14, 2019 | Discussions thread
jpig Contributing Member • Posts: 556
Re: Wide Angle Lens - opinions please

Emile15 wrote:

I would still consider a manual lens. Remember, everything further away than a meter or so will be sharp, so focussing (manual or auto) doesn’t really come into it. I recently bought the Laowa 9mm 8f/2.8 and am very pleased with it. The real learning curve with this lens is deciding when it can be used to good effect and focussing at very short distances, say 15cm.

Yeah, people keep saying that, but ultra wide angles lenses are for getting up close, and when you do that, depth of field becomes an issue, and you will need to focus. Now if you just want to point it at a distant scene and snap away, fine, set it to f/8, focus to somewhere near infinity, and forget it. But that's not how I use an ultra wide angle. I have the Rokinon 12mm, and I like it a lot, especially for the price, but in my usage, focusing is necessary.

These were shot with the Rokinon 12mm at f/8 or f/11 (can't remember which) and not even particularly up close, but you can see that not everything is in focus. In both cases focus was set on the purple flower (lupine) closest to the center.

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