[Nicolas06]

What, for example, would have happened to these images using the wide angle lens?

If you want to play with distorsion, we'd need to ask if what you want is a rectinear wide angle or a fish.

I would think that to play more you'd want a zoom lens, not a prime. By playing with the zoom you can control the level of distorsion depending of what you want to achieve. In reactilinear I think the most interresting for your case would be the Sigma 8-16. The Pentax 10-17 is also very interresting too and is allow a magnification of 1:2.5@17mm.

The DA10-17, this is the sort of picture it would make (taken again from a search in flickr). Because it is zoom (not common from a fish) you can control the level of distorsion. 10mm is a 180°, 17mm is a 120° fish.




The sigma 8-16 is a rectilinear wide angle. It will not curve the line like the fish. It no able to get the same magnification (1:7.8) but if you are not into too extreme close up, that should be it (the window example do not seems to look that small in reality no ?). An example from a search in flickr, again:



Please also notice that in post processing you ca apply perspective distorsion to any shoot. You can reduce the effect of a wide angle, transform a fish into a rectilinear (with some sharpness problem on the borders), a rectilinear into a fish (with obviouly more limitation in max angle of view) and in general tweak the perspectives of your photos.

I use this in particular to ensure my shoot are free of disgracious distorsion but you can also do the reverse, of course. It depend of what you want to express. DxOView is I think an example of such post processing software with good ergonomics.

Also, you might not be into that but thoses 2 wide angle do provide some very nice city landscape when on a trip.

[Mccsiz]

Yes! This is more like what I'm after. Are these lenses easy to find? And which one would be best for the novice?

Cheers

[Chicop]

Lago di Toblino by Pablo Margulies, on Flickr

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Pentax DA* 16-50mm is WR and pretty close to 15mm but not quite the same

thanks for the info guys, these pics are great!

[Nicolas06]

Yes! This is more like what I'm after. Are these lenses easy to find? And which one would be best for the novice?

Cheers

Not really difficult to find, you can order them online on Amazon for example or B&H. That would give you a fair price.

Just remember for the sigma 8-16 that you need the version with Pentax mount, not Canon or Nikon. Just check that and you should be fine.

I advice you to look a little more to the kind of photo you can get with thoses lenses to be sure this is what you are afte and you are after it.

Here a link to more sigma 8-16 sample photos: Full-size sample photos from Sigma 8-16mm F/4.5-5.6
Here a link to more Pentax 10-17 sample photos: Full-size sample photos from Pentax 10-17mm F/3.5-4.5

Remember through theses lenses are made to provide theses kind of extreme rendering and to fully leverage them you'll need to carefully compose your shoots. They are quite nice but more a complement of your 16-50 (that is better for day to day more classic shoots) than the only lenses to have. In fact they are not for novice. They are to play with perspective and distorsion and are quite extreme at it. But this is what you want isn't it?

And now.... let's go back to more DA15 shoots, after all that the topic of this thread, isn't it ? I advise you to create you own thread if you want more alternatives and more details for your lenses.

Some DA 15 shoot:

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[Hattifnatt]

Sigma 8-16 seems like a great lens, a friend has it (unfortunately I cannot use it since it's Canon mount). Drawbacks as compared to my DA15: it's kind of a huge lens, and it's so wide he has problems finding decent compositions most of the time. But sometimes it produces spectacular results, I think about getting one in the future.

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[Mccsiz]

Thank you for your illustrated advice. It seems that the HD 15 DA 15mm F4 Limited is not what I need. Are there any forums that you can recommend? I don't want to start something new if a previous discussion exists.

Cheers,
Loyd

[Rondec]

A few more shots.

[Jean Poitiers]

A few more shots.

Great in color, too! I prefer the B&W's that you posted earlier. Salut, J

[Mccsiz]

A few more shots.

Are these taken with or without a tripod?

Cheers,
Loyd

[Rondec]

Great in color, too! I prefer the B&W's that you posted earlier. Salut, J

Thank you.

Are these taken with or without a tripod?

Cheers,
Loyd

These were taken with a tripod.

[Pablom]

A few more shots.

Love that first one

[PALADIN85020]

Closeups with the 15mm are quite possible and give interesting effects. Here's one of a table setting at the Wrigley Mansion in Phoenix. Also a pic of a curbed junk 1950 Studebaker pickup in Lowell, Arizona. Both shot with the HD_DA 15mm Ltd. and the K3.

John

[Nicolas06]

On costal landscape from Italy, near Maratea:

DA15, f/9, 1/100s, ISO100



DA15, f/9, 1/320s, ISO100

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