Hi there...I have the NikonD40X..and am wanting a wide angle lens for this..but they are soo expensive...well anything electronic here is 3x what you pay for it bcos of the $$$$....
Wondering what suggestions you have for basically increasing my range and something that gives reasonably good pics without costing the earth...thankyou...
Wondering what suggestions you have for basically increasing my range and something that gives reasonably good pics without costing the earth...thankyou...
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Re: budget wide angle lens?
Sun, April 27, 2008 - 4:55 PMWell gliSTenz,
One of the problems for a wide-angle with the D40X is that the crop factor is 1.5X ...
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Sun, April 27, 2008 - 4:56 PMerrrr What does that mean to a novice Michael? -
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Re: budget wide angle lens?
Sun, April 27, 2008 - 9:30 PM1.5x crop...
> errrr What does that mean to a novice Michael?
If you haven't taken photo's with a 35mm SLR, it may mean nothing to you; you don't have to "re-learn" from your 35mm days.
Those of us coming from the "old school," however, have to multiply all focal-lengths (by 1.5x) to get the "effective" focal-length compared to what we're used to. That is, our "50mm standard" lenses are now 75mm "mildly telephoto" lenses. Our 35mm "mildly wide-angle" lenses are now nearly-50mm "standard" lenses. And our formerly-ultrawide 20mm's are disappointingly-moderate 30mm's (on the other hand, our telephoto's get *more* telephoto... good news for the wildlife (and often, sports) photographers!) .
- Steve
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Re: budget wide angle lens?
Mon, April 28, 2008 - 9:07 AMThanks Steve,
I was busy at a photo shoot, and could not respond.
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Re: budget wide angle lens?
Sun, April 27, 2008 - 10:32 PMThe problem with the D40x is that, in order to autofocus, it requires AF-S compatible lenses (i.e. a lens with a focus motor)
The Nikon 12-24, the Sigma 12-14 and Sigma 10-20 are about the only ones that fit the bill. None are budget lenses.
If you want to manually focus, then you have more options. -
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Mon, April 28, 2008 - 2:33 PMthanks everyone..I dont mind manually focussing...so does that allow any options on something cheaper than not? -
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Re: budget wide angle lens?
Wed, April 30, 2008 - 12:23 PM
gliSTenz - I see in your profile that you're in NZ. I know that (here in the States) Nikon lenses can be rented, and it's pretty common (ditto Canon; as opposed to, e.g. Sony/Minolta, who only have 1 place renting 'em here in the States...) . You might look 'round and see if you can rent a prime or two (say, the 14mm), or one of the zoom's that were mentioned. See what kind(s) of focal length(s) you actually want/need...
3rd-party: Tamron sells a nice 14/2.8 prime, IIRC. Sigma has a 14/3.5 prime.
You can likely pick up a bargain on e-bay, but it's a bit of a crapshoot there -- you may get a dog of a lens.
MF -- older (non-AF) lenses can often be had (used) fairly cheap.
- Steve
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Re: budget wide angle lens?
Mon, April 28, 2008 - 7:44 PMHow wide is wide angle for you? An 18-55 is condidered super wide angle and costs $120 or you could go with the quite good 16-85 for $650.
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Wed, April 30, 2008 - 1:56 PMI feel your pain gliSTenz,
I am from New Zealand and hated when it was time to shop for new gear. Now I am in the States all the camera stuff seems cheap to me lol. I think the renting idea is great it lets you see what you like and dont like in a lens by doing this you may just find it is worth the extra $$$ to get what you really want. unfortunatly in the lens catagory it is my experience that you get what you pay for (ok well,,, in most cases anyway.)
good luck
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Re: budget wide angle lens?
Wed, April 30, 2008 - 2:22 PMThere are clwide angle attachments that were made to fit normal camera lens, currently I don't know who makes them, but however you get what you pay for. Budget usually means budget. -
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Wed, April 30, 2008 - 9:59 PM
> There are lwide angle attachments that were made to fit normal camera lens,
> currently I don't know who makes them
Yeah, kinda the opposite of a TeleConverter. These fit on FRONT of the lens, like a filter (unlike the TC, which usually sits between lens and camera).
So far as I know (working entirely from hearsay, though...) these are mostly really bad options: they turn even a very GOOD "normal" lens into a quite bad wide-angle.
> but however you get what you pay for. Budget usually means budget.
In this case (wide adapters) I'm 100% with Abject!
There are other (better) "budget" choices... ebay, and other used sources. 3rd-party lenses (Sigma, Tamron, Tokina). Etc.
- Steve
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