Lens purchasing dilemma - wide prime or 18mm kit lens [NX300]

If you already own the 18-55 just test that before invest your money. Also panorama stitching can be very high quality and satisfy. Avoid in cam panorama mode, is not that good...
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ChristchurchKiwi wrote:

Cheapest nx 12-24mm in NZ is $720.00! I'll try other options but to be honest do you guys think I should start spending big money on expensive lenses? Because at the moment NX300 with 18-55mm OIS kit lens + 45mm 1.8 2D/3D lens together owes me about $800USD.

Wow! Mine was $ 160 here in Brazil (520 BRL). I think I was lucky then.

ocphotodad wrote:

Caio Everton wrote:

I just bought the 12-24mm on sale. I might get my hands around it next week. Every review sayts it's a sharp ultra-wide lens. You should take a look at it.

I like what I've seen with the 12-24 Samsung lens but in my book wider is better, that is why I have been doing so many panorama's lately. The 8-16mm from sigma might work by focusing manually but I cannot get over the no filter thing

The distortion is remarkable on an 8-16mm lens: perfect for real estate. It would fit perfectly with Samsung's line up too: 8-16, 16-50, and then 50-150. So Samsung if you're listening, can the 11-24 2.8 and go for an 8-16mm with weather sealing please

The thing is, here in Brazil, adapters and lenses are really expensive. I think there's only official retailer from Canon and Nikon (besides Samsung), and even they are expensive as hell. Samsung's lenses are very affordable around here, with sales from time to time. It's the main reason I got into the NX system.

Thanks for the input guys. Definitely going to look into stitching. I was hoping for bit more thumbs up for the panorama option just because it looks easier and quicker but as one of you suggested the in camera panorama is bad so looks like stitching is the way to go.

Yes maybe stitching takes time but hey all good things take time right?.
And Brasil yea man that's cheap. I was in Brasil last year for the Football World Cup, amazing country loved it!

That's a super bargain on that lens that you got.

One thing to make sure of for stitching is good sharpness across the frame for whatever lens you want to use. Also, plan your exposure for the whole image so that something doesn't end up too bright or dark. You don't want to vary the exposure in the stitches. .. unless you're up for some careful work to hide it later.

I'm really liking your shots, wonderful light and I especially appreciate the bird shots.

If you do end up going for a lens, the Samyang lenses are nicely priced and are excellent. The caveat is that they're fully manual, but I believe you said you were shooting that way anyway ^_^. Personally I got the 14mm because I also am using it on my 5D, which is FF so it's even a bit wider that way than the 10mm is on NX cameras. It also the gives me about 21 equivalent on my NX300, which is also a focal length I didn't have covered.

Caio Everton wrote:

ocphotodad wrote:

Caio Everton wrote:

I just bought the 12-24mm on sale. I might get my hands around it next week. Every review sayts it's a sharp ultra-wide lens. You should take a look at it.

I like what I've seen with the 12-24 Samsung lens but in my book wider is better, that is why I have been doing so many panorama's lately. The 8-16mm from sigma might work by focusing manually but I cannot get over the no filter thing

The distortion is remarkable on an 8-16mm lens: perfect for real estate. It would fit perfectly with Samsung's line up too: 8-16, 16-50, and then 50-150. So Samsung if you're listening, can the 11-24 2.8 and go for an 8-16mm with weather sealing please

The thing is, here in Brazil, adapters and lenses are really expensive. I think there's only official retailer from Canon and Nikon (besides Samsung), and even they are expensive as hell. Samsung's lenses are very affordable around here, with sales from time to time. It's the main reason I got into the NX system.

Samsung here in Brazil is less expensive than many other countries, except for Korea. I did some reasearch before buying my NX300M