Recommendations on wide angle lenses

[Coleman121]

Hi guys,

I use a Nikon D7200 APS-C, and I’ve been looking to get a solid, sharp wide angle lense for landscape/lowlight shooting. I’ve been looking at several different lenses from all different price ranges (I’m willing to spend the extra money on a lens that is worth it), but would like to spend no more than $1k if I can.

Additionally, I also sort of want a lens that I can use for both daytime landscape photography as well as Astro/lowlight (with a fast enough aperture to for that reason.) Sometimes it seems as though these two don’t exactly go hand in hand, as some suggestions of the best daytime landscape lenses have a maximum aperature of f/4, which I’m assuming wouldn’t be so great for shooting the Milky Way for example.

So far some popular suggestions I’ve seen are:
- Tokina 11-16mm F/2.8 DXII (this one I’ve been particularly interested in, but I’m not sure if I’ll had wished I had a longer focal to 24mm or so.)
- Tokina 11-20mm F/2.8 DX (this one sounds great, but the 82mm filter thread is turning me off from considering it as my other filters are 77mm, I don’t want to get step down rings as it can cause vignetting.)
- Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5

Any experience with these lenses above, or any extra suggestions you have for my situation? Is it better to have more than one wide angle lense for different times of the day?

Thanks guys!

 

[GDHLEWIS]

Hiya,

I have the exact same camera and have had plenty of success and super happy with my two lenses.
Nikkor 35mm1.8 DX
Ronkinon 16mm 2.0
Both are super well priced and insanly good, the Ronkinon is a manual lens but have had no problems using on both day and night shots.Both are well under 1K as well. My camera does not go anywhere without those two in the bag

 

[D7K]

I used to love the Tokina 12-24 on my D7000, I found the 11-16 too highly priced and a very specialist zoom range, I also used screw on slim filters on the 12-24 without issues.

 

[Coleman121]

I used to love the Tokina 12-24 on my D7000, I found the 11-16 too highly priced and a very specialist zoom range, I also used screw on slim filters on the 12-24 without issues.

What did you use that lense for mostly? How did it perform at night time? (If you did use it other than daytime)

 

[D7K]

I used to love the Tokina 12-24 on my D7000, I found the 11-16 too highly priced and a very specialist zoom range, I also used screw on slim filters on the 12-24 without issues.

What did you use that lense for mostly? How did it perform at night time? (If you did use it other than daytime)

I used it for all sorts of stuff to be honest, It was attached to the camera most of the time, flare when night shooting was not as bad as I have read by some others. I enjoyed the way it distorted perspective on the DX body, was fun for shooting skating close up, street and architecture shots were nice or simply small spaces, being able to get close and go wide was a treat, it was a nice lens for some landscape works too.

 

[Coleman121]

Hiya,

I have the exact same camera and have had plenty of success and super happy with my two lenses.
Nikkor 35mm1.8 DX
Ronkinon 16mm 2.0
Both are super well priced and insanly good, the Ronkinon is a manual lens but have had no problems using on both day and night shots.Both are well under 1K as well. My camera does not go anywhere without those two in the bag

Does any of these Samyang 14mm or 16mm lenses have AF now? I personally also choose to shoot manual when doing landscape work but having AF would be pretty nice to have. Do you find having a primed lense of 16mm to be ok with landscapes, or do you find yourself in situations where you need to be able to zoom? Do you have any nice shots I can see with this lense also? Thanks

 

[D7K]

I'd think forking out the money for a prime just for landscapes a little over the top as it's unlikely you'd ever shoot it at f/2 but then again, it'd be really handy for astro etc. I've never used Rokinon / Samyang yet but I've read good things about them, was always put off by the pure MF but also be interested to hear / see the experience / results from using them. Right now, my GAS is tearing me between a 16-35 or the 14-24 for FF. But also, I'm super eager to pick up a filter kit, choices, choices!

 

[Coleman121]

Well yeah that’s the thing, I want a wide angle lens that can do both, shoot daytime landscapes as well as perform well in lowlight. It seems that wide angle primes are significantly cheaper than zoom lens. Another thing is filters, with Samyang, most of them seem to be missing the filter thread which is slightly off putting

 

[n614cd]

I have a Sigma 35mm 1.4 Art lens for my Canon 6D.
Allows me to do wide open, low light at night all the way to landscapes, family... in the day. In fact it is my primary lens.

Tim (just a hobby shooter)

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[GDHLEWIS]

Hiya,

I have the exact same camera and have had plenty of success and super happy with my two lenses.
Nikkor 35mm1.8 DX
Ronkinon 16mm 2.0
Both are super well priced and insanly good, the Ronkinon is a manual lens but have had no problems using on both day and night shots.Both are well under 1K as well. My camera does not go anywhere without those two in the bag

Does any of these Samyang 14mm or 16mm lenses have AF now? I personally also choose to shoot manual when doing landscape work but having AF would be pretty nice to have. Do you find having a primed lense of 16mm to be ok with landscapes, or do you find yourself in situations where you need to be able to zoom? Do you have any nice shots I can see with this lense also? Thanks

To be honest I only have prime lenses for no other reason than I just prefer them. I do belive they have started coming out with AF versions of these lenses which I suppose would be nice to have but I dont miss the AF enough to want to replace the lense at all.

 

[GDHLEWIS]

UK 9 is the 35mm 1.8 Nikkor DX
UK 3 is the 16mm 2.0 Ronkinon / Samyang
These are the only photos I have on this computer, but if you go through some of my previous posts all the landscape images taken will have been using one of these lenses

 

[TonyBallas]

Hi guys,

I use a Nikon D7200 APS-C, and I’ve been looking to get a solid, sharp wide angle lense for landscape/lowlight shooting. I’ve been looking at several different lenses from all different price ranges (I’m willing to spend the extra money on a lens that is worth it), but would like to spend no more than $1k if I can.

Additionally, I also sort of want a lens that I can use for both daytime landscape photography as well as Astro/lowlight (with a fast enough aperture to for that reason.) Sometimes it seems as though these two don’t exactly go hand in hand, as some suggestions of the best daytime landscape lenses have a maximum aperature of f/4, which I’m assuming wouldn’t be so great for shooting the Milky Way for example.

So far some popular suggestions I’ve seen are:
- Tokina 11-16mm F/2.8 DXII (this one I’ve been particularly interested in, but I’m not sure if I’ll had wished I had a longer focal to 24mm or so.)
- Tokina 11-20mm F/2.8 DX (this one sounds great, but the 82mm filter thread is turning me off from considering it as my other filters are 77mm, I don’t want to get step down rings as it can cause vignetting.)
- Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5

Any experience with these lenses above, or any extra suggestions you have for my situation? Is it better to have more than one wide angle lense for different times of the day?

Thanks guys!

The 11-16 Tokina is in my bag and I find it has real good picture quality. It really serves me well for many a landscape and architectural shot, not to mention close quarters. I can’t say I’ve really used it at night. That’s something I’ve been meaning to do is some night photography, if anyone can give any suggestions on how to prepare for shooting at night.


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[Solarflare]

Well, the Tamron 10-24mm f3.5-4.5 VC II would be my pick for a wide angle on Nikon DX.

The "II" part is very important, since the first version is a weak lens.

The really good wide angle lenses, like the Tamron 15-30mm f2.8 VC or the Nikkor AF-S 24mm f1.8, are however full frame only; the crop factor turns these lenses into much less wide angles on a crop sensor. Sorry about that.

 

[birdbonkers84]

Hey I’d recommend the Tokina 11-20 f/2.8 I use a NiSi v5 pro filter holder on it via a amazon basic uv filter (with the glass popped out) and its awesome with my D500 and NO vignetting.


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[Designer]

.. any extra suggestions you have for my situation?

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AF-S NIKKOR 20mm f/1.8G ED | Interchangeable Lens from Nikon