Wide angle lens??

pmillage

Senior Member
Good day all, I cshoot real estate for a living and have been using the D7100 with a 10mm-20mm sigma wide angle. If I go the FX route will I require the same wide angle lens or would I need to go to something like a 24mm......?
Thank you
 

aroy

Senior Member
Good day all, I cshoot real estate for a living and have been using the D7100 with a 10mm-20mm sigma wide angle. If I go the FX route will I require the same wide angle lens or would I need to go to something like a 24mm......?
Thank you

For FX the 10mm translates to 15mm and 20mm translates to 30mm, if FOV is the only criteria, this comes very near 14-24mm zoom, which is quite expensive.

An alternative (considering that most FX bodies will meter with AIS lenses) is to use pre owned MF lenses
. 15mm Zeiss
. 20mm F2.8 and 28mm F2.8 Nikon AIS lenses.

As real estate shots are generally of static objects, you can use a tripod and if you MF skills are low, use live view to get tack sharp images.
 

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
Good day all, I cshoot real estate for a living and have been using the D7100 with a 10mm-20mm sigma wide angle. If I go the FX route will I require the same wide angle lens or would I need to go to something like a 24mm......?
Thank you
My suggestion: the Nikon 20mm f/1.8G would be just about perfect. This is one bad-ass wide angle lens.

Of course if you have the scratch ($2000, $1200 respectively) there's always the Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G or the 16-35mm f/4G to look at. Any one of those three would serve your needs well I'd say.
 
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With my FX I have been using an old Sigma 17-35mm which makes the old 10-20 sigma on DX look like the bottom of a bottle ..
Even better I just got a Samyang 14mm for about $250 ( £184) and you can ignore the rockwell reports its very very sharp ( Se3e DXO ratings) ..and you can crop to 50% and still sell the picture . My RAW orientated friend was "Very impressed" with the images I sent him which for him is very high praise....
 
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