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For some time now, I’ve been searching for a good quality wide-angle lens. Allen Weitz from B&H recently spent some time with Nikon’s AF-S Nikkor 16-35mm/4G ED VR lens.
The first thing you notice about Nikon’s new AF-S 16-35/4G ED VR is its size. Though in no way heavy, and if anything, quite well balanced, the lens looks more like a moderate zoom lens, say a 28-105, as compared to the shorter physical sizes of ‘typical’ wide zooms. Looks aside, Nikon’s latest ultra-wide addition to its growing optical line-up is a true wide-zoom workhorse.
Read the complete review over on B&H.
Sigma Has a New Lens
Posted on: 28 April 2010
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Here’s a review of the new Sigma Ultra Wide Angle lens. I’ve been waiting to get a good wide angle lens for landscape photography. It looks like the wait was worth it.
Sigma has a press release for their new 8-16mm F4.5-5.6 DC HSM Ultra Wide Angle Zoom lens. For those of you who prefer a Prime Lens, you will note that this is a Zoom. The price tag on this nice piece of glass is $1,100 but you can preorder it on Amazon for $699.
For more information go to the Sigma website or read more over on Digital Photography School.
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Darren Rowse has a good post about the pros and cons of each of these lenses. With the exception of the Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
that came with the Canon Rebel XT when I purchased it years ago, I have two other lenses and both are prime. I have a Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 
Check out the article here.
Fisheye Photography Done Right
Posted on: 11 April 2009
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When you want to capture the whole horizon from end to end, and you don’t mind—better yet, you love—distortion, grab a fisheye lens.
Developed for weather cameras (among the first was the 1924 “Sky Lens,” designed to capture entire cloud formations), fisheyes are named for their extremely-close focusing, convex-shaped glass elements. Art photographers and other fans have long since jumped into the fun. If you’ve never tried one, it’s worth borrowing or renting a fisheye lens at least once.
Fisheyes come in two varieties. Full-framers cast an image circle larger than the film or sensor frame, yielding conventionally shaped rectangular images. Circular fisheyes, on the other hand, capture the entire image circle, usually a 180-degree, hemispherical slice of everything in front of the camera—even the photographer’s feet. [via PopPhoto]
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LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., February 17, 2009 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging and optics, today introduced two new Tilt-Shift lenses, the TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II and the TS-E 17mm f/4L. These two new L series lenses expand the Company’s extensive lens line-up of TS-E lenses giving photographers creative control over perspective and depth of field in their images. Both the TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II and the TS-E 17mm f/4L are specialty lenses ideal for landscape and architectural photography and are compatible with all Canon EOS system single lens reflex cameras1. The TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II, a replacement for Canon’s TS-E 24mm f/3.5L introduced in 1991, has significantly improved operability with low distortion when photographing buildings, consistent image quality throughout the image and reduced chromatic aberration when shooting at ultra-wide angles. The TS-E 17mm f/4L is the world’s shortest focal length Tilt-Shift lens with full-frame 35mm coverage.
“These two new lenses are Canon’s answer to photographers who have requested wider angle Tilt-Shift lenses, [via PDN]
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