Cheap Wide Primes

[rallymatt]

Im trying to compile a list of cheap, wide primes for my 7D and here is what I have come up with. Anyone please add to the list because I am certainly no old school lens knowledge base. I'd like to keep my list less than $200, the Peleng is more than that, but I included it because I THINK it is the widest cheap prime around?


Zuiko 28mm 3.5 and 2.8 versions ~$50-100
Tokina/Vivitar/Mamiya 28mm 2.8 - ??? Less than $50 Not as sharp as Zuiko?
Arsat 20mm 2.8 - Russian, mixed reviews $109
Vivitar 19mm 3.8 - Slow and not awesome?
Zuiko 18mm 3.5 - Kinda hard to find, supposed to be real nice $200+
Tokina 17mm 3.5 - ??
Zenitar 16mm 2.8 - fisheye, but less fishy on crop sensor ~$190
Peleng 8mm 3.5 - fisheye, actually wide and fishy on crop? $330


I am sure I am missing a slew of 20mm ish lenses, so add them so I can go buy them off eBay.

Are there any other old screw mount, om, k, nikon, whatever sub 18mm primes for less than $200?

[morgan_moore]

28 * 1.5 = 42 = nearly normal
18 X 1.5 = 27 ish = not very wide

APS needs serious wides, most seem to be nasty modern zooms, there are no historical lenses that cover APS that I know of

Wide starts at 24mm (FF) in my book which is 16 (ish)

Proper wide starts at 20 (FF) IMO which is 13-14mm

Prepaer to trade your 5d and lose any gains in owning wide glass

S
A challenge indeed

S

[KeithAndrews.TV]

Cheap, wide primes. Wouldn't that be considered a contradiction :)

[morgan_moore]

not on FF APS - yes

[Jean Dantes]

Scroll midway down this page for info on what the 35mm equiv is from 1.6x crop factor:

http://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/1-6x.htm

[joe1946]

http://www.opteka.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=174
http://www.vimeo.com/6266472
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a21/jogiba/my%20K-7/IMGP2409.jpg

[FatDaddy]

That's tempting :)

[sblfilms]

Does anybody know if there is an FCP plug-in to remove fisheye distortion? I would probably matte to 2.35 anyway, so I don't mind losing vertical space.