What Lens?.

In your opinion what size is the most versatile lens you could use for HDR?.

Best regards Paul

A wide one! I use a 10-22 mm canon efs. Does the the job for me…. Independant lens makers like Sigma, Tamron and Tokina also produce some reasonable lenses. You pays yer money you take your chances!! Dave S

Thanks dave, the widest lens i have at the moment is a 17.5 to 45mm Zuiko lens, but i will start to look for a wider one.

Thanks for the advice.

Best regards Paul

I use the 11-18 mm Tamron, the 18-55 mm Canon and the 28-105 mm Canon lenses. However, since I shoot with a Canon XSi, I have a 1.6 multiplying factor to take into account. I also always use a polarizing filter when shooting landscape photos.

Olympus has a great super wide – 9-18. Seems nice. Not super familiar with four thirds lenses, but I have always been impressed with Olympus’s image quality and build. Here is a link to the lens from B&H:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/564518-RE…

Thanks akleit for the link, that is not a bad price for that wide a lens, and i will need something wider than 17.5 mm.
Zuiko make really good lens, even the kit ones give good results, but when it comes to prime lens, the results with them are staggering, i have a 35mm macro lens and it produces images as sharp as a knife.

Paul

Those are some nice size lens ilh2009, that 11 to 18 must be a pleasure to use, but i expect you get the use out of all of them.
The Four thirds system gives a multiplying factor of X2, and that is another thing i have to get, a polarizing filter to cut down the glare.

Paul

Paul,
Something to remember using filters on wide angle lenses – if you try fitting both a UV which would generally be used anyway to protect your lens surface if for no other reason, and then you screw a circular polarising filter on to that, you will find you may create dark corners to your images, at the widest angle end of the zoom. So it is best to use just one at a time, if you need the widest angle part of the zoom.

Thanks for the tip.

Paul

shoot wide. Its also alot of fun and to me thats what its all about. Your choice is personal. Read all the reviews you can about the lenses you might be looking at.
Make your choice and if you are not happy
with it within a week. take it back. I purchased the Sigma 10-20. The first one i bought i sent it back. ordered another one and i am tickled with it. Have banged it into trees have gotten it good and soked
and three years later still works fine.