what's an Ultra Wide Angle comparable to the Tokina 11-16 for Full Frame

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i love my tokina 11-16 and want to use it on my 5d (more as a 16mm prime), but it's vignetting indoors with my CPL filter on it. it nearly goes away (indoors) when i take off the filter, but i'm going to want to use the filter for landscapes. i'm hoping the effect isn't as bad with sufficient lighting outside - i haven't had a good opportunity to test that out.

is there a good uwa out there for $600 with optics as good as my tokina?
 
i also use the tokina as 16 on my 5d, have you tried these certain cpl brands that are "thin"? I forgot the brand but i saw them 2 weeks ago while i was in a camera store and theyre like half the thickness of the usual CPLs.

I didnt buy it as i thot i didnt need it at that time, now i think i might one.
 
i haven't even thrown on my 8 stop ND filter but that's a must if i want to use this lens wide open. both filters seem pretty thick
 
Sigma produce a 12-24mm which works on full frame cameras but is fairly slow. I think it's under $1000 but probably nowhere near under $600.

You could also check out the rectilinear 14mm from Rokinon/Bower/Vivitar/Samyang (it's the same lens but sold by a few different manufacturers). It's fully manual but the optics are rumoured to be very good, particularly considering the price.
 
Canon 16-35 ii is a good one. Nikon 14-24 is great, but the not canon native. Also the canon 14mm ii is awesome for a prime, but the price is way up there too. These are all f2.8
 
robtk said:
i love my tokina 11-16 and want to use it on my 5d (more as a 16mm prime), but it's vignetting indoors with my CPL filter on it. it nearly goes away (indoors) when i take off the filter, but i'm going to want to use the filter for landscapes. i'm hoping the effect isn't as bad with sufficient lighting outside - i haven't had a good opportunity to test that out.

is there a good uwa out there for $600 with optics as good as my tokina?
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Just get NIKON 16mm f2.8 Fisheye Ai-s.....nice small lens.
http://cgi.ebay.com/NIKON-16mm-f2-8...71110644?pt=Camera_Lenses&hash=item53e1d4e1f4
 
dust'n the callipygous said:
Canon 16-35 ii is a good one. Nikon 14-24 is great, but the not canon native. Also the canon 14mm ii is awesome for a prime, but the price is way up there too. These are all f2.8
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I think the price is way up there for any of those. Also, the Samyang 14mm is good photographically for a number of reasons, but for video the biggest problem is that the Samyang has rather extreme and complex distortion.
 
the 11-16mm is an amazing lens, you guys probably appreciated it while you were on a cropped camera, being one of the lenses that maintained focus throughout the zoom (i.e. focus on one spot doesn't require refocusing when you do a zoom-in).

i'm also currently looking out for more UWA options for my 5D, having shifted from the 7D, i've since offloaded the 11-16 from tokina, so would like to listen to good recommendations for UWAs. the 16-35 is currently out of my budget but would be up for consideration should i get more funds. :D
 
robtk said:
i love my tokina 11-16 and want to use it on my 5d (more as a 16mm prime), but it's vignetting indoors with my CPL filter on it. it nearly goes away (indoors) when i take off the filter, but i'm going to want to use the filter for landscapes...
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Just a quick thought, have you thought about using a step up ring? Then you could use as thick of a filter as you want.
http://www.amazon.com/Bower-77-82mm...?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1304447967&sr=1-13

Dai-Lon
http://www.dailonweiss.com/
http://www.kristinaweiss.com/Magyar/
 
The best ultra wide for the $$ IMHO is the Samyang/Rokkinon twins, 14mm -- f2.8 -- and wonderfully sharp. It so good I dumped my 17-40L. I have Zeiss C/Y's at 28 and 35mm, so I usually used the 17-40 at 17mm. The Samyang is wider, sharper and a stop faster. Got mine for $360 on ebay. Build quality is on par with L lenses, but its as good as Tokina. It doesn't give you the options to use filters, but ultrawides get a lot of foreground and suffer from distortions that make them less than desirable for landscapes. A slightly longer focal length and a few shots stitched together will produce much better results.
 
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