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06 Aug, 2015
Awsome product made in the Nikon Japanese factories, great value
2 of 5 found this helpful I wanted a wider angle lens than the standard Nikon 18-105 without lots of distortion, I have a 8mm Samyang fish eye which gives a slightly distorted 10mm when using the 1.3 DX crop on my 7100. This gave me a taste of the ultra wide. The choice is then a 12mm prime or the 12-24 zoom. Having bought the 80-200 F2.8 AFD tele zoom and 35mm and 50mm F1.8 primes I decided the kit lens would be for holiday use while more serious photography wold be the other lenses. The lens is made in Japan like the 80-200 and is all metal constriction not plastic. It feels great to use
Bad features none, wider apature would be nice but it already has 77mm filter so its at the practical limit for the focal lengths.
The main competition is the 10-24mm zoom made of plastic in china which is more expensive, or the 12mm prime, lacking flexibility.
29 May, 2017
Amazing super wide images
3 of 3 found this helpful The most important thing to remember about these Lenses is they are FULL FRAME. Super Wide angle lenses. Canon released these lenses in 1992, and they are still a current model, there are lots of them second hand on ebay!!
Much wider than our eyes and very sharp, with minimal geometric distortion, OK for architecture shots. It is an interesting lens due to its exaggeration of perspective as compared with the common full frame wide angles of 28mm or 35mm. This lens is perhaps the first lens that actually portrays a feel of the exciting world of Ultra-wide angle photography. In other words, you have to see the image produced by such a focal length through the SLR's viewfinder to see what its all about.
View angle on 35mm and full-frame cameras
94º diagonal.
62º vertical.
84º horizontal.
This super wide perspective has interesting effect on sky and clouds. We often see the effects on TV shows which include atmospheric landscape and skyscapes. The front element is fixed when focusing so its possible to use polarising filters, the vertical view angle means you will often get lots of sky included, polarising filters are great for it. The front ring is metal not plastic so if used carefully will not strip but if you get a metal filter mount cross threaded it will be very difficult to remove.
Keeping the camera level is also important to prevent sloping verticals.
This is a lens to love and master.
I use mine on my 5Dc and love it, it balances nicely with the heavy 5Dc body, this and my 24mm F2.8 are my most used lenses on my 5Dc.
On an Crop sensor EFS camera they will fit and operate perfectly but as the Canon Kit zoom lens is 17mm F3.5 (28mm full frame equivalent) it would be overkill to use such a lens. I did put it on my 50D for a quick test, it works but dont bother
29 Jul, 2020
Get one as betted than product in the box with your UK market cleaner
The real thing supplied for other markets by Dyson, Much better cleaning performance than the UK market original item. If it fits your machine get one. Beware Dyson have different version ,for Big Ball and Big Ball Animal, one has male fitting the other female ing!pipe fitting. The Animal version is the male pipe fitting!!