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The lens to get started on wide angle photography

Started Oct 30, 2015 | User reviews thread
John Sheehy Forum Pro • Posts: 26,698
Re: The lens to get started on wide angle photography

cberry wrote:

Overall: 8/10 - Why? It's a bit predictably boring. Everything's good about it but it doesn't have the extra little bit of something to make you want to pull it out of the bag in the same way that say the 50mm f/1.4 does, The 60mm, the 24mm STM or the 70-200 f/4 IS. Yes, it complements the 18-135 STM perfectly - maybe even being one up on that lens but then again, that lens had the same lack of WHAM about it. Useful, incredibly so but not as inspiring.

Could that be your taste, where you like blurred backgrounds and the subject standing out against the background?  The 10-18 has a much smaller entrance pupil than those other lenses you mentioned.  To have a 10-18 with a large pupil on a DSLR would require lots of big, inefficient glass.  Your lens has a pupil of 2.2mm at the wide end, and 3.2mm at the "long" end.  50/1.4, for example, has about 35mm.

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