Lens for Interiors?

[SWPhotoImaging]

What lens do others find "wide enough" for shooting interiors (with a 10D)? Not the wide-open spaces of cathedrals and museums, I mean home interiors. Model homes, decorator shots for magazine layouts, etc?

[Cal Maier]

The Canon 14mm 2.8L lens is very good if money is no object. It is the widest low distortion lens that Canon makes at the moment, and it is quite sharp, given the wide focal length.

I have also used the Sigma 15-30 EX with good results at 15mm and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg. I haven't heard about the newer Sigma wide angle zooms as yet.

Cal Maier

[dtrayers]

The widest lens I have is the 18-55 EF-S lens and it's barely enough for some interior shots. I don't really have a need for a wider lens, but if I did I might consider the Sigma 12-24.

Petteri has a review of this lens:

http://194.100.88.243/petteri/pont/Reviews/a_Sigma_12-24_f4.5-5.6/a_Sigma_EX_12-24_f4.5-5.6.html

and here are some sample pics comparing it to a Sigma 15mm:

http://www.dragtimes.com/sigma12vs15.php

Micheal Reichmann has some thoughts on using a fish eye lens and then correcting software for ultra-wide angles on cameras with a large crop factor like the 10D/300D.

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/imagealign.shtml

[Paul Jordan]

I am an interior photographer and use the Sigma 15-30 on the Canon 10D. You can see some results at my web page below.

I have always been very happy with the quality and angle of view and more importantly the clients are very happy. I usually keep equipment to a minimal on a shoot with camera on a tripod on aperature priority set at about f11 and use the 550ex flash as fill-in in bounce mode. Using available light for interiors I find is best with just minimal fill-in flash as needed.

Hope this helps.

[SWPhotoImaging]

Paul,

I would be very interested in seeing your interior shots, but your web page was not listed in the message you posted.

Thanks,

[Belmondo]

I am an interior photographer and use the Sigma 15-30 on the Canon 10D. You can see some results at my web page below.

I have always been very happy with the quality and angle of view and more importantly the clients are very happy. I usually keep equipment to a minimal on a shoot with camera on a tripod on aperature priority set at about f11 and use the 550ex flash as fill-in in bounce mode. Using available light for interiors I find is best with just minimal fill-in flash as needed.

Hope this helps.

Another missing link!

[dn7elson]

... but your web page was not listed in the message you posted.

Just click the WWW button at the bottom of his message.

[SWPhotoImaging]

WWW buttons . . . . what's next? Cameras with no film??

This technology stuff just keeps getting confusinger and confusinger . . .

[SWPhotoImaging]

I checked out your gallery Paul, and that's exactly the kind of interior architecture I need to do for my wife's business. You are using a 15-30 Sigma for the majority of those? Very nice.

Does anyone have experience with the 14mm Sigma EX HSM 2.8? That seems like the ideal focal length (22.4 on a 10D) for this kind of close quarters work.

[westfalcon1]

I do Kitchens for a company and use a 17-40 Canon L lens and a 20-35 non- L lens. I shoot available light and fill with incandescent reflectors. The company uses Mauser cabinets and Mauser liked my shots enough to order several of them for use in a National Ad(I got paid handsomely for them too!!). I've tried flash and it does not work for me. I shoot at asa 400 on large jpegs. Most kitchens photograph at F11 and 1/4th of a second. I get gorgeous 16x20s. Good luck. Brian

[Paul Jordan]

Glad you were able to see my web pages, sorry for not explaining it better.

All the interior shots were done on the Sigma 15-30, majority with fill flash. I always shoot in RAW format at iso100 and exposures can be long at times hence a tripod.

Regards