widest lens for 5d mkii

Canon's 14mm 2.8 looks to be good, but very very expensive. I myself am waiting for the Samyang. No need for autofocus at that focal length. Well not much of a need.

jdang307 wrote in post #9941603
Canon's 14mm 2.8 looks to be good, but very very expensive. I myself am waiting for the Samyang. No need for autofocus at that focal length. Well not much of a need.

Ditto. 14 is wide enough too, that if the corners were bad, you could crop it to 17-19mm and get the sharpness. from the d700 samples it looks to be a damn fine lens....and that was the unreleased version. They didn't release it so they could fix some quirks.

If you want wide and you don't care for f/2.8, go for the Sigma 12-24mm f/4-5.6. It's as wide as you'll get without going fisheye.

The 8mm fisheye's are useless, in my opinion.

The sigma is definitely in the mix as well. Shoot I thought bout taking my tax return money and buying a 14-24mm with G adapter.

Then my offer got accepted on a house. This will be my last purchase for quite a while, and the only hole I have is UWA (well telephoto but I don't really do that)

plasticmotif wrote in post #9938029
Well, the issue with UWAs is getting the corners as sharp as the center. It's hard to do on full frame...

The Samyang 14 is available for preorder on Ebay for 450. The pictures from the D700 and Samyang 14 for Nikon on Lenstip show that it's a pretty amazing piece of glass....just like their 85 1.4

I tried this lens on my 5D mkII this week.
The corners are so sharp that it's incredible
We did a quick comparison with the 16-35mm mkII and it was so sharp that the mk II was put into the shades.
But there is more vignetting and barrel distortion than the Canon. Then of course it's all manual.
For that price it should be in any landscape photog bag.
I will order mine soon

ArcticShooter wrote in post #11231082
I tried this lens on my 5D mkII this week.
The corners are so sharp that it's incredible
We did a quick comparison with the 16-35mm mkII and it was so sharp that the mk II was put into the shades.
But there is more vignetting and barrel distortion than the Canon. Then of course it's all manual.
For that price it should be in any landscape photog bag.
I will order mine soon

I owned mine for 2 weeks. It was entirely too wide for me. Great lens though.

A few people use their Tokina 11-16's at 16mm on full frame with good results:

https://photography-on-the.net …hp?p=10978016&p​ostcount=8


https://photography-on-the.net …p=10365392&post​count=1508

Probably my first choice would be a Leica 15mm f/2.8 if I could afford it and find one.

Sigma 8-16 with a 1.4x TC will give you 11.2mm at the wide end, and will cover the full-frame image circle. I don't think you can get a wider rectilinear lens.

Not sure about the IQ though.