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Archive 2013 · Good or bad idea?(choose betw 25mm&15mm)

  
 
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p.2 #1 · p.2 #1 · Good or bad idea?(choose betw 25mm&15mm)


You don't say which system you use. Assuming Canon or Nikon I would go for the relevant tilt and shift 24mm. Wide enough for most landscape shots and you can always use the shift mechanism to make a pano to extend the FOV if you wish. Fast speed of no big importance for landscape except it makes it easier to focus; you will be shooting at f11 to 16 to maximise DOF. Additionally, the tilt mechanism will enable focus from a few feet away to infinity. Manual focus, of course, but you wouldn't use AF for critical landscape work. I use the Canon 24/3.5 TSE II with a 6D and it is a winning combination.


Dec 18, 2013 at 01:04 PM
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p.2 #2 · p.2 #2 · Good or bad idea?(choose betw 25mm&15mm)


Many thanks guys, I may go with 21 for regular landscape + samyang 14 in case need the 14 view.
Also, what u guys think of canon 24 L II 1.4 compare to 21?



Dec 27, 2013 at 07:10 AM
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p.2 #3 · p.2 #3 · Good or bad idea?(choose betw 25mm&15mm)


Jochenb wrote:
15mm and 25mm are dramatically different focal lengths! Just buy the one you'd use the most. 15mm is much more specialized than a 25mm. It's super wide. You can crop, but a 15 gives you a very different perspective.
It's also a lot larger and heavier.


The 15-mm lens just shows more of the same scene, and if you crop it to an equivalent 25-mm image it will be the same as an original 25-mm capture (apart from trivial matters such as resolution, vignetting, etc.) The perspective is the same, with or without cropping.







Dec 27, 2013 at 07:24 AM
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p.2 #4 · p.2 #4 · Good or bad idea?(choose betw 25mm&15mm)


x-box wrote:
Many thanks guys, I may go with 21 for regular landscape + samyang 14 in case need the 14 view.
Also, what u guys think of canon 24 L II 1.4 compare to 21?


The 21 stomps it at equivalent apertures. If you want a Canon 24 to beat the 21, you'll have to buy the TS-E L.



Dec 27, 2013 at 08:21 AM
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p.2 #5 · p.2 #5 · Good or bad idea?(choose betw 25mm&15mm)


I own the ZE 21, Canon 24 TSE II and Canon 24 1.4 II and they all have strengths and weaknesses depending on application. For landscape photography I will always carry the ZE 21 and the 24 TSE and I probably use them about equally.


Dec 27, 2013 at 01:40 PM
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p.2 #6 · p.2 #6 · Good or bad idea?(choose betw 25mm&15mm)


I would ideally like a 24mm but...the 21mm is so good it not only satisfies all general needs of a wide angle - as it mimics a longer lens yet is wide enough for all but specialist needs - but it answers questions you have not even thought of yet.

I have many 'will this work with the 21mm?' shots that worked great! It's fast enough, in fact it is great wide open, one advantage Zeiss gives you over say the 14-24 Nikkor, and (I think) the TSEs are slow. So that is more versatility too, pretty fair bokeh too.

So in a way it means you need a good reason to buy something else, in Zeiss that is. It is one of few lenses fully ready for future sensors, or in the case of some of us, current high Mp sensors. The real test of the best lenses is this: do they consistently surprise you when you open the files? This one does and I go nowhere without it.

edit: here is a Samyang 14 on the a7r:
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/52791345

not my taste but the chat on the thread might give you some info.






Edited on Dec 27, 2013 at 08:58 PM · View previous versions



Dec 27, 2013 at 08:47 PM
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p.2 #7 · p.2 #7 · Good or bad idea?(choose betw 25mm&15mm)


x-box wrote:
Many thanks guys, I may go with 21 for regular landscape + samyang 14 in case need the 14 view.
Also, what u guys think of canon 24 L II 1.4 compare to 21?


For landscapes it is not that important, but the Samyang 14 has a lot of distortion. In order to get rid of it you will end somewhere in the 18mm range because you will loose a significant part of the image. That's something to take into consideration.

I have the Zeiss 15/2.8 and I never had to correct the distortion simply because it hardly has any distortion.



Dec 27, 2013 at 08:53 PM
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