Wide Angle lens- what to get?

[*Glenn*]

Roy (Bartman) has thrown another lense at me to consider. Now I have to choose between these:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Electronics...-282982455.htm

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Electronics...-281654478.htm

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Electronics...-281482806.htm

I'm not concerned about price. My concerns are the advantages & disadvantages of these lenses. I don't want to buy a lense and end up saying I should have bought this or that. Any help would be appreciated

Ooops... I've now seen this as well to add to the mix

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Electronics...-282724124.htm

Cheers
Glenn

[grant quist]

i have the tokina 11-16 wide angle, its a great uwa lense, i have nothing bad to say,

[Ben]

Tokona 11-16 wont AF with D5000 other wise the best in quality.
Sigma F3.5 takes huge 82mm filter and others are all somewhat standard 77mm filters and there is not much review as it is realative new. Supporsed be improved ocer F4-5.6 version. ( not much matter if you go to F8-F11 for landscape work).
Every lens has pros and cons and you may need to state why you need/want UWA and what you are going to use for. In that way you might get more precise advise.

Lot's of people include me is happy with Sigma 10-20 F4-5.6, even I originally wanted Tokina 11-16. It does a job what I wanted (landscape, wide view urban shot which I do not too much care about distortion and take it as character).

If the price is not matter, why you dismiss the Nikkor 1--24 which covers more useful range?

Good luck.

[*Glenn*]

Thanks for your advice Ben... I think I'll go for this lense

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Electronics...-281482806.htm

[Ben]

Any of those are very good and has some limitations compare to each other and so the strength.

I think you won't regrets with that lens. It's a very much well regarded lens.
Good luck for your new shooting experience with UWA , Glenn.

[SteveB]

For the Canon, are any of these UWA's EF mount (rather than EF-S) ? A lot of them just say Canon mount which could be either.

[rjd]

In reality only canon make EF-S mount lenses and only canon efs lenses wont mount or fire on EF bodies.

I've actualy shot my 10-20 on a 5D before, you get some intresting results - and a lot of vignetting.

[rob]

I have the Sig 10-20mm, very happy with it, though wouldn't mind going wider still.
http://www.photozone.de/canon-eos/51...56apsc?start=1
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Electronics...-297473522.htm
First link is review of the Sigma 8-16mm
Second link is a new one for sale on trade me (under $1200).

[dgrobler]

My Tokina 11-16 is on its way - Photo & Video did a deal for me on my Nikon 18-200VR.