Former Film SLR users: What wide angle lens did you have?

Ever since jumping into digital SLR photography, I've always seen the common refrain that 17mm on a 1.6x (APS-C) format camera is not that wide. That got me wondering, how many former film SLR users have owned wide angle lenses wider than 28mm?

I still have my old FD mount equipment (an A-1, AE-1 and F-1N), and my widest FD lens is 28mm.

Same here. The widest I had was a 28mm. Back then, I think when you thought "wide angle", you automatically thought "28mm". At least I did...

Steve

35mm was my "Wide"...

20mm on a film Canon.

---Bob Gross---

24 mm Olympus from back in 1970's.

Ah !
the days of Film gets a mention, nearly 3 years since I last shot film.
When on 35mm I used 2 systems Canon & Olympus.
widest Canon was 24mm f2.8 then a 35 to 135
Widest Olympus 16mm full frame fish eye, 17mm tokina, 24mm f2.8, 35mm shift (Schneider pa curtagon), 35mm Novoflex macro .

The swap to Digital invovled getting a 14mm f2.8 and the 17mm to 40mm this has covered all but the fish eye.
one last point I use both a 1.6 x body and a 1.3x body so effectively each wide varies accordingly,
put the 14mm on the 1D mk2 and thats seriously wide (care needed with subjects at the edge of the frame etc).

Martin (Huckaback Photo)

Still got my 24mm Zuiko and my OM-1N...

IMO, the definition of what constitutes wide-angle has changed over the years. It used to be that even a 35mm was considered a wide-angle lens whereas these days it's considered a "normal" lens.

The last film body system I had was a Contax system which I sold off not too long ago. My widest lens with this system was a Contax Zeiss Distagon 28/2.8 which was plenty wide for me.

Sold my 20-35mm USM when I bought the 20D with 17-40mm L. Miss the wide angle 20-28mm, but use my EOS 3 when really needed.

I was a 20mm wide angle film user...

So that is what I miss, but the 1D MkII is looming closer....

My widest lens was and still is 16-35. It was really cool before now it's still kinda ok but at least 1d has only 1.3x and not 1.6x. And if this is not enough I still shoot film. It's not that I would start to hate it after I got digital.

Here's my nicest photo so far from that 24mm...

I used a Sigma 24-50 on my NOINK 601, and it was wiiiiide

Best regards,
Andy

I had a 35-80 f/2.8 Tamron zoom on my older manual Canon FT (until it literally wore out). Later, when I went EOS, 28 mm was my widest.

Andythaler wrote:
I used a Sigma 24-50 on my NOINK 601, and it was wiiiiide

Best regards,
Andy

I don't think people realize just how W-I-D-E 24 mm is on a full-frame camera. I thought 28 was pushing it when I first got mine. It seemed like I could never get close enough to use it.

Now, I'm enjoying the virtues of the fisheye lens.