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Excellent Capture
Nice shot! It's good to see a wide angle lens being used to inject drama into an image. This effect has been lacking for some time in digital photography.
Nice use of the wide angle.
Hi Paul (sut68)
My trip to Durdle Door was actually the first time that I had used the lens, so I haven't had much experience of it as yet. My first impressions are quite good, though - it seemed to focus quite quickly and quietly and the selected point of focus produced very sharp results. My only disappointment was the level of distortion/lack of focus at the periphery of the image. For example in this image my focal point was the arch of durdle door (f16 @11mm) and I was quite disappointed by the amount of foreground distortion in the pebbles and lack of focus in the left hand edge of the image. I am not sure how much of this is acceptable from a wide angle lens - as I don't have much experience with them. With the lens I was using before (kit 18-55mm) I struggled to get anything truly sharp (even with a tripod in bright light conditions etc), so this lens is a significant improvement on this. (I see that you use this lens and don't seem to have that problem, so maybe it's just me!)
Sorry I can't offer more advice about the lens. I, personally, went for the Sigma rather than the Canon based on what I had read for example and the fact that I couldn't justify the price difference to my bank balance.
Hope this helps.
Kris
My trip to Durdle Door was actually the first time that I had used the lens, so I haven't had much experience of it as yet. My first impressions are quite good, though - it seemed to focus quite quickly and quietly and the selected point of focus produced very sharp results. My only disappointment was the level of distortion/lack of focus at the periphery of the image. For example in this image my focal point was the arch of durdle door (f16 @11mm) and I was quite disappointed by the amount of foreground distortion in the pebbles and lack of focus in the left hand edge of the image. I am not sure how much of this is acceptable from a wide angle lens - as I don't have much experience with them. With the lens I was using before (kit 18-55mm) I struggled to get anything truly sharp (even with a tripod in bright light conditions etc), so this lens is a significant improvement on this. (I see that you use this lens and don't seem to have that problem, so maybe it's just me!)
Sorry I can't offer more advice about the lens. I, personally, went for the Sigma rather than the Canon based on what I had read for example and the fact that I couldn't justify the price difference to my bank balance.
Hope this helps.
Kris
Kris,
That was very helpful thanks. I think I will take my Camera body in to the local camera shop and give it a try myself and see how much distortion there is - before I buy it.
In my opinion [and it's as brief as yours] the image should be pin sharp throughout, more so than the edges of your example.
Once again, thanks for taking the time to respond.
Paul
That was very helpful thanks. I think I will take my Camera body in to the local camera shop and give it a try myself and see how much distortion there is - before I buy it.
In my opinion [and it's as brief as yours] the image should be pin sharp throughout, more so than the edges of your example.
Once again, thanks for taking the time to respond.
Paul
This is a craking shot and love the way you went to find forground that adds to and makes the shot. I have never been there but seen many images of it, you are to be congratulated on a unique view that is so very interesting. Brilliant work.
