wide angle

hello whats the best wide angle lens out there on the second hand market and what sort of prices will i be looking im looking to use for landscape photography
thanks emma

Hi Emma there are a lot of landscape lenses out there Take the DA16-45mm second hand maybe around (£170) / or Sigma 10-20mm £300ish sigma's 18-50mm and 17-70mm about £300 .There is also a DA17-70mm but it's quite expensive at the moment.

Also good to note that you have a Pentax camera which opens up a whole host of older A / M /FA series lenses which cost much less but only having manual focus.Don't be put off by these lenses i'm buying some of them myself at the moment on ebay.


What sort of budget do you have.

I just noticed that there is a DA16-45mm lens for sale on the forum at the moment.Not a bad price

https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/pentax-16-45-lens--3-months-old--13854

hello martin thankyou for replying is it possible you could send me a link to one of the old lenses on ebay i cant find none just want to see at moment get a rough idea ect few people have said of these older lenses and manual lenses really doesnt bother me i prefer them actually but i cant find any i getso confused

just checked out your website lovely pics i hope one day i can take just one shot as good as yours

Try this:

http://tinyurl.com/n5myek

G

There you go Emma.You'll have to do a bit of rumiging though.I spend most of my ebay time on this search.
There are some lenses going cheap but just watch out for internal fungus on the lens which is not good.Try and get a lens at the best quality possible.

http://photography.shop.ebay.co.uk/items/Camera-Lenses__Pentax-lens_W0QQ_catrefZ...

Martin understands the part clouds play in good landscape photography.

G

I think you will find my search narrows it down rather more.

G

How wide is a good landscape lens? Not very I thought.

Mike

Good search George i've now saved that one myself.

Depends on your (physical) viewpoint. When the 10-17 Fisheye came out, several people posted landscape pictures on here taken at 10mm. They were fine.

G

so is a wide angle no good for landscape photography????

Quite the reverse. As I said, a great deal depends on your viewpoint. If you are somewhere like the Lake District, where the mountains crowd in on you, you might be glad of the widest wide-angle you can find.

But if I were on a budget (but not too drastic a budget!), and had to choose just one lens for all landscape photography, it might well be the 16-45 zoom.

G

ok thank you for all your advice i now have that ebay search saved so thankyou all very much hopefully soon very soon i can invest in a wide angle lens