Suggestions for a super wide 14mmish nikon mount lens for A7s?

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Silenkiller

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Hellooo - Looking for something super wide to really nail shots of the interiors of churches - my 28mm nikon is great but not quite enough.
I was thinking 14mm? I have a nikon adatper already, any1 have any personal favorites for their a7s?


Found a pretty crazy deal on a 8mm fisheye lens but thats a little too much distortion for what I'm going for.
 
I like the Sony 10-18mm e-mount. Good stabilization and the distortion is reasonably well contained. I use it all the time and love it on my a7s.
 
Yes the Sony 10-18 is a very good lens. If you want an e-mount lens with stabilization you should get that but if you want a lens with a Nikon mount, you will not get a better lens than the Tokina. The Tokina is available in all sorts of mounts. One of it's hallmarks is it's ability to display images without barrel distortion at any focal length. The Sony is pretty good in this regard as well. Depends on your needs both immediate and long term.
 
The samyang 14mm f/2.8 is the cheapest one around. It is sharp, but on FF it has some mustache distortion.
The tokina 11-16 works on FF as a reasonably decent 16mm prime.
 
Andrew Stone said:
Yes the Sony 10-18 is a very good lens. If you want an e-mount lens with stabilization you should get that but if you want a lens with a Nikon mount, you will not get a better lens than the Tokina. The Tokina is available in all sorts of mounts. One of it's hallmarks is it's ability to display images without barrel distortion at any focal length. The Sony is pretty good in this regard as well. Depends on your needs both immediate and long term.
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Thanks for the info everyone - yeah I keep hearing about the tokina as well. What is the crop though due to the aps-c? Was my first consideration.

Having a native lens sounds wonderful though too, a bit more expensive though.
 
Silenkiller said:
Thanks for the info everyone - yeah I keep hearing about the tokina as well. What is the crop though due to the aps-c? Was my first consideration.

Having a native lens sounds wonderful though too, a bit more expensive though.
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Used copies of huge 10-18 are selling under $600 now. The 10-18 is a stellar performer between 12-16mm in FF mode and you can shoot 11 & 17mm with a little vignette. Then it's also a 15-27mm in crop mode. At 12 mm you get an insane FOV, it's really cool how wide 12mm is on a FF body. It's also stabilized, has AF, takes a small 62mm filter and it's a fraction of the size of the Tokina. I'm not saying the Tok is a bad lens, but if you want a UWA lens, the 10-18 is tough to beat. The Samyang is nice too, but it's huge and filters are a major hassle.
 
I'm still thinking of getting the FE 16-35 just to have a no-nonsense wide that I don't have to fiddle with crops. However the 10-18 sounds interesting. Will check it out - turned off by the cost of the 16-35. Second the Tokina quality - had one in Canon and loved the lens. As Samuel said, it functions in full frame mode at the end of the zoom length.


Edit - in looking up the 10-18 more (I had read a few articles earlier) I'm pretty convinced! I need to buy a wide (I sold my full frame Tokina 16-28mm) and this looks like a good compromise on price but still getting the oss and the wider than 16mmFF. Thanks Chris! Can't find it under $600 though.
 
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wallrc said:
I'm still thinking of getting the FE 16-35 just to have a no-nonsense wide that I don't have to fiddle with crops. However the 10-18 sounds interesting. Will check it out - turned off by the cost of the 16-35. Second the Tokina quality - had one in Canon and loved the lens. As Samuel said, it functions in full frame mode at the end of the zoom length.


Edit - in looking up the 10-18 more (I had read a few articles earlier) I'm pretty convinced! I need to buy a wide (I sold my full frame Tokina 16-28mm) and this looks like a good compromise on price but still getting the oss and the wider than 16mmFF. Thanks Chris! Can't find it under $600 though.
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Heres one for $590: http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1325895/0?keyword=Sony,10-18#12649036

My FE 16-35 just arrived. It's a better lens, sharper across the frame and better in the corners. If I was strictly APS-c, I would have kept the 10-18, but I shoot a lot of stills and the 16-35 is a more useful focal length for me in FF. I had to sell the 10-18 to fund the other lens, but I'm planning on getting another down the road for the 11-15mm range.
 
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