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Suggestions for wide angle lens (for landscape/astro/street)

Started Jun 11, 2021 | Questions thread
CeeDave
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Re: Suggestions for wide angle lens (for landscape/astro/street)
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Astro has different needs than standard landscape. You really want to avoid lenses with lots of a particular flaw called “comma” which renders stars as eye-shaped rather than round. Also, bight aperture (generally want faster than f/2.8) is very useful to allow lower ISO (less noise) or faster shutter (less blur). Finally, many people eithe go ultrawide like 12 mm for whole sky.

So…the 16 has a lot of comma and is a bit narrow for astro, but great for landscape. 14 is borderline too slow for astro and I don’t know about comma—I don’t have it, but it has a great reputation for landscape…but wider than you want. For astro, a great inexpensive choice is the Samyang 12/2, but it’s much wider than you want, is manual, and its coatings aren’t as good as Fujifilm’s in my opinion (more flare).

No easy choice. Sorry I can’t help more.

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