WANTED - WIDE ANGLE LENS

Hi,

Im after a wide angle lens (zoom or non zoom) . Max budget is £100

Preferably 10-20mm or similar. Must be good quality!

Cheers

Sorry cloudhunter you've no chance of a 10-20 for a £100.Maybe an older pentax manual focus film lens or a DA18-55mm kit lens

There's the Zenitar 16mm also, but it's a fish-eye I believe. Price is around £100.

As mentioned, think you need to revise your budget a bit

Recently bought a Tokina 19-35, but with the crop factor hardly what would be called a wide angle lens

My only suggestion woud be to try an adaptor which fits on your existing lens. These are on eBay for £20-50, but I expect the quality will be fairly poor.

I think the biggest problem you will face is that noone will want to sell these lenses once they've bought them. As although there are lots of upgrade paths with telephotos (faster, longer, etc) once you buy a wide there's nothing to replace it with so you tend to hold on.

The best recommendation I can make is the Samsung 10-17. I think it's a cracking lens. Park have them at £260. I know it's well over your budget but you'll appreciate it in the long run.

How about a Pentax (or Samsung) 16-45 f4, I've seen these for about £130 upwards second hand. If you are fixed on £100 then you could always sell your kit lens (assuming you have a kit lens?) to make up the difference.

I was surprised at the difference between 18mm and 16mm, might not sound much but to me it is noticeable.

I have the 16-45 and the sigma 17-70 (yet to decide which one to let go), and funnily enough I think the field of view is wider at 17mm on the Sigma than at 16mm on the Pentax (I'll have to check again). I wonder if anyone who had both could confirm that.