Widest Angle Lense w/out Distortion

I had a friend show me his new Sigma 8-16 MM 1:4:5-5.6 HSM lens on his camera and it was amazing the wide angle pictures with no distortion.

I take pictures for my job that are alot of interior office shots used for marketing flyers.

That lens does not fit my Canon EOS 60D.

So now I want to get something similar. Does anyone have any recommendations?

it does fit your eos 60D....unless you have some magical 60D...

This one fits the 60D - APS-C format.

(Was your friend using a Nikon?) The EOS version of this lens should work on any crop sensor Canon camera.

I tried putting his lens on my camera and it didn't fit. Yes, I think he was using a Nikon. I think there is more than one version of this then. I will just make sure i get the one that fits the EOS.

Jewel wrote in post #14740437
I tried putting his lens on my camera and it didn't fit. Yes, I think he was using a Nikon. I think there is more than one version of this then. I will just make sure i get the one that fits the EOS.

as long as it's made for canon cameras it'll fit just fine

Or get the 17mm TS-E lens - perfect for interiors. You can shift left/right then stitch for even wider shots. The lens has virtually no distortion or CA.

bunyarra wrote in post #14741211
Or get the 17mm TS-E lens - perfect for interiors. You can shift left/right then stitch for even wider shots. The lens has virtually no distortion or CA.

I guess 17mm would not be wide enought on a APS-C for interior photo, on a FF it would be great.

OP... I think you need to be very careful when you say "no distortion." It means different things to different people. You can be sure that every lens available for a DSLR has some sort of distortion present - it's completely unavoidable when you design a lens.

For example, a rectilinear lens will make straight lines look like straight lines. This comes at the expense of stretching things at the sides and (especially) the corners of the frame. Lines are straight but things in the corner are stretched way out of proportion. In extreme cases, it can make some people look twice as tall as others.

The other extreme would be an equal-area projection. This is used in some fisheye lenses, and results in straight lines appearing curved but the relative scale of things is constant.

A lot of wide angle lenses try to go somewhere between the two extremes. This results in straight lines not being perfectly straight and some pincushion behavior by the lens.

Many of these effects can be corrected in post processing - Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5 or later have the ability.

^Yep.
Jewel, just take a look in the 8-16 gallery.. there's distortion there.

EF 14mm f/2.8L

Rectilinear UWA

Jewel wrote in post #14740437
I tried putting his lens on my camera and it didn't fit. Yes, I think he was using a Nikon. I think there is more than one version of this then. I will just make sure i get the one that fits the EOS.

This may come as a shock, but Nikon mount lenses do not fit on Canon cameras.

DennisW1 wrote in post #14743070
This may come as a shock, but Nikon mount lenses do not fit on Canon cameras.

Not without an adapter.