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Brendon:
I will be taking my first trip to Italy late this summer and will be visiting  Rome, Florance, Chique Terre, and Venice.  I'm hoping to pack light and will be traveling with my 5Diii and 24-105L at a minimum.  I'm looking for some advice on a wide angle lens choice for the trip.

I would like to be able to capture good pics inside churches and in the small to large squares as well as the grand vistas like inside the coliseum.  I will not be traveling with a tripod so that will make panos much more difficult. 

I currently have the Canon 16-35L ii but I'm curious if this is the right choice.  I've been eyeing the sigma 15mm fisheye for some time and thought that this might be a better choice? 

My experience with the 16-35 with indoor and architecture shots is that perspective usually causes slanted walls and other distractions.  Would I really be much worse off with a fisheye?

Thanks in advance for the advice!

briansquibb:

--- Quote from: Brendon on May 30, 2012, 03:21:23 PM ---I will be taking my first trip to Italy late this summer and will be visiting  Rome, Florance, Chique Terre, and Venice.  I'm hoping to pack light and will be traveling with my 5Diii and 24-105L at a minimum.  I'm looking for some advice on a wide angle lens choice for the trip.

I would like to be able to capture good pics inside churches and in the small to large squares as well as the grand vistas like inside the coliseum.  I will not be traveling with a tripod so that will make panos much more difficult. 

I currently have the Canon 16-35L ii but I'm curious if this is the right choice.  I've been eyeing the sigma 15mm fisheye for some time and thought that this might be a better choice? 

My experience with the 16-35 with indoor and architecture shots is that perspective usually causes slanted walls and other distractions.  Would I really be much worse off with a fisheye?

Thanks in advance for the advice!

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TSE-17 will do the job. Even on a cheap tripod (buy it there if need be)

wickidwombat:
the 16-35 f2.8L ii can do sooo much more than just shoot landscapes and buildings, its a really fantasic and versitle lens, a fixed fish eye is going to limit your options a fair bit and everything is going to look the same
its not about how wide you go its about the shot composition.

Random Orbits:

--- Quote from: briansquibb on May 30, 2012, 03:23:58 PM ---TSE-17 will do the job. Even on a cheap tripod (buy it there if need be)

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+1.  Like the pics on your Flickr site, and I think you could doing really well with a 17 or 24 TS-E.  I find the 24mm focal length more versatile, but that is up to you and your shooting style.

Rocky:

--- Quote from: Brendon on May 30, 2012, 03:21:23 PM ---I will be taking my first trip to Italy late this summer and will be visiting  Rome, Florance, Chique Terre, and Venice.  I'm hoping to pack light and will be traveling with my 5Diii and 24-105L at a minimum.  I'm looking for some advice on a wide angle lens choice for the trip.

I would like to be able to capture good pics inside churches and in the small to large squares as well as the grand vistas like inside the coliseum.  I will not be traveling with a tripod so that will make panos much more difficult. 

I currently have the Canon 16-35L ii but I'm curious if this is the right choice.  I've been eyeing the sigma 15mm fisheye for some time and thought that this might be a better choice? 

My experience with the 16-35 with indoor and architecture shots is that perspective usually causes slanted walls and other distractions.  Would I really be much worse off with a fisheye?

Thanks in advance for the advice!

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Practice your photo stiching with photo shop. It will do wonder. There are situations that no wide angle is wide enough. As for stitching, hold the camera in protrait position. and make sure that each frame will overlap by about 1/3 of the previous frame. That will give you more freedom when stitching. I know it is against instinct. After you have tried it you will understand why. As for perpective distortion, the photo shop will do a decent job also.
The stitching will also give you a much higher resolution picture.
I know the "purist" will not like my idea. But having  a picture is better than NO picture.

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