Advice on good compromise wide-angle

[martti]

...or one can focus using Live View or tethered and one can bracket.
Or one can dramatize. A chacun a sa sauce as the French tend to say when opinions differ.

 

[Djaaf]

Yep, that's pretty much the point I was making. I can't stand field curvature. You can work around it, if you really want to, or you can even be able to play with it. I don't.

(and completely by the way : you can use "A chacun sa sauce" or "Chacun ses goûts", but most of the time we use something like "Les goûts et les couleurs... " and then we shrug. )

Djaaf.

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

I've had the Canon 20mm, the 17-40, the 16-35 f/2.8L II, the 15mm FE, and the Samyang 14mm. Of the bunch, the Samyang stood out for being pure junk.

I found that a old Tokina 17mm f.3.5 prime was excellent, and it costs far less than the others. I happened to get mine for $125, but even for $400, its good.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tokina-AT-X-PRO-AF-PRO-17mm-F-3-5-Aspherical-Lens-For-Canon-Excellent-/281624875462?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item41922691c6

 

[mackguyver]

Thanks guys, I'll need to think hard about the Samyang/Rokinon, even if I am going there for landscapes, I wonder if in other situations it could be tricky to use. But I guess in terms of quality you are getting more than what you pay for.

I wonder why nobody ever hit that segment with a cheap autofocus prime, Im thinking a 15 or 16mm prime even at f4. Like it would be good if Canon came up with such lens in their new shorty primes line like the 35mm IS.

The problem you're running into is that you have a crop lens budget for a full frame lens. I would agree with Neuro to save up for the 16-36 f/4 IS, but if that's too much or will take too long, take a look at the Tokina AT-X 17-35 F4 PRO FX. I haven't used it, but I had the 11-16 f/2.8 for a while and in general, Tokina lenses are well-built and pretty sharp. Most of them suffer for a fair bit of CA, but that can be corrected in post.

 

[bainsybike]

Thinking outside the box, you could probably get an EOS M + 11-22 within your budget. You could carry that along with your full frame kit, or by itself when you wanted to travel light. I'd bet that in most situations the IQ would match that of your 6D plus any full frame ultra wide you could buy for the same price.