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Wide Angle Lens - opinions please

Started Mar 14, 2019 | Discussions thread
Banderras Regular Member • Posts: 310
Re: Wide Angle Lens - opinions please

Photearoa wrote:

Absolutely.. that is on my wish list! Prioritising the wide angle as I have a trip coming up and really want to have a go at the remote New Zealand skies!

I am not into Astro, but what I learned about it online, it takes practice and dedication and a set of accessories to get one of those nice pictures floating the net. So a dedicated, manual focus, comparatively less expensive lens is a good solution, as it’s a special use kind of.

For example, as far as I understand, you would need different band pass infrared filters to get the gas nebulas. I suppose you will need a tripod too, if not tracking mount. With this in mind AF is not really required, besides it is not that accurate for night sky shots, I always check manually and refocus anyway. I ask others who are into Astro to correct me if I’m wrong, because I’m clueless about this really.

Or do you mean by skies the dramatic cloud skies during daytime? Really for all other uses I would go for the 10-24 and AF, I am also in the uwa still need to focus camp, coming from experience with 12mm touit and canon 17-40.

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Sony a7R II Fujifilm X-Pro2 Fujifilm XF 10-24mm F4 R OIS Fujifilm XF 23mm F2 R WR Tamron 28-75mm F2.8 III
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