Best lens for a 1.6x crop sensor body (7d) for photography Loft Conversions.

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Hi guys,

Been given a bit of work from a friend, but it's not something I have undertaken before. It's photographing some of the loft conversions he has done, so it will be a bit of a challenge to fit everything in.

He isn't knowledgable in photography but has the idea of using a fisheye which he must have picked up from his skateboarding days. I'm no keen on using a fisheye due to the distortion, but I'm also not sure a 10mm EF-S lens will be wide enough?

Any advice would be great please, it needs to be wide enough to capture the whole loft conversion if possible on a Canon 7D body.

Regards,
Alex
 
A fisheye wouldn't be my first choice but you can correct the fisheye look in post capture although I don't know how much of a faff on it is as I've never done it myself.

10mm is pretty wide so a 10-20mm might be ok but Sigma do an even wider 8-16mm and I suppose another option is using a standard lens and doing a panorama, that's something I have tried but I got crap results when trying to use that technique for bathroom conversion shots. A wide angle was much better for me but you may do a better job of a panorama.
 
I would steer away from the fisheye the image quality once corrected will be poor. Even a 10mm wide lens on a cropped body won't capture much of a loft conversion as it will only produce approx. 100 degree field of view. If the shots are for marketing purposes, rooms rarely look their best with a stand in the corner superwide shot. It's normally much better to concentrate on photographing a shot that features 2 walls and getting the composition and stagging right to create a bit of narrative and put across the various key features. You can still photograph the room from the opposite side you will just be photographing the room from 2 considered views rather than an estate agent type shot.

Alternatively he could employ someone who has all the kit and does interior work all the time.:D
 
Sigma 8-16 would be ideal and if u can't fit everything in with that u could take 2-3 shots and stitch them in photoshop panoramic style
 
You might need a faster lens than the Sigma. What about the Tokina 11-16 f2.8?
 
eddiewood said:
You might need a faster lens than the Sigma. What about the Tokina 11-16 f2.8?
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F/2.8 = shallow depth of field, not much will be in focus. I would guess anywhere from around f/8 - f/16
 
I think for interior work the Tokina 12-24mm f/4 is about the best in terms of image quality and VforM.
 
lucky_13 said:
F/2.8 = shallow depth of field, not much will be in focus. I would guess anywhere from around f/8 - f/16
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You don't worry about DoF when you have 11mm@f2.8, roughly you'll get something like 3ft to infinity.

Get yourself a UWA, they are cool. :thumbs:
 
I can't believe there has been 10 posts here and no one has mentioned the best ultrawide on the market - the Canon 10-22mm. Mount it on a tripod and set the aperture to F16 and make sure all the lights are on!
 
DaveKing said:
I can't believe there has been 10 posts here and no one has mentioned the best ultrawide on the market - the Canon 10-22mm. Mount it on a tripod and set the aperture to F16 and make sure all the lights are on!
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Take the roof off first, plenty of light then. :D
 
DaveKing said:
I can't believe there has been 10 posts here and no one has mentioned the best ultrawide on the market - the Canon 10-22mm. Mount it on a tripod and set the aperture to F16 and make sure all the lights are on!
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I had one of those :D but I don't think it's the best on the market :thumbsdown: There's some vignetting and distortion and personaly I think the Siggy 12-24mm is a much better lens, on APS-C you do lose 2mm though and 2mm matters. On FF though... it's amazing.
 
al. said:
Hi guys,

Been given a bit of work from a friend, but it's not something I have undertaken before. It's photographing some of the loft conversions he has done, so it will be a bit of a challenge to fit everything in.

He isn't knowledgable in photography but has the idea of using a fisheye which he must have picked up from his skateboarding days. I'm no keen on using a fisheye due to the distortion, but I'm also not sure a 10mm EF-S lens will be wide enough?

Any advice would be great please, it needs to be wide enough to capture the whole loft conversion if possible on a Canon 7D body.

Regards,
Alex
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Hi Alex

The shots in the flickr account below, were taken with a Sigma 10-20mm UWA lens for my mate who's a joiner and wanted photos taking of work he's done.

These were shot using a tripod

Hope it's of some help...
 
al. said:
Thank's very much for the replies !

Andyred - was that on a crop body or FF?

Regards,
Alex
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Hi

On a crop body Alex
 
Canon 10-22 is the best UWA for a Canon crop. And 10mm on a crop is super wide!

Mount on a tripod and away you go.
 
Just to add another lens to the mix, i have used the Tamron 10 - 24mm with some good results though can be a little soft at the edges when wide open, a review of it can be seen here:
http://www.dpreview.com/lensreviews/tamron_10-24_3p5-5p6_n15

If you can afford the extra then i think the Canon or Tokina would be hard to beat, but this lens does a decent job at a reasonable price IMO.
 
17mm tilt-shift, shots a maximum shift in all directions and then stitch the images together,just adds lots more work.
 
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