Budget wide angle for Canon Full Frame

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hi guys,

Any recommendations for a budget wide angle for a Full Frame Canon?

Cheers

Rob
 
Canon 17-40mm f4l. Depends on what you consider budget I guess?
 
Good choice the 17-40! Was looking for sub £200.... :(
 
Your only option at sub £200 is a manual focus Samyang 14mm second hand. Other than that, the only practical choices (i.e. at a sensible price) are 12-24 Sigma or 17-40 f4L. You could look at older MF lenses and adapters, but I'm not (yet) up on the cheaper good quality MF lenses...
 
You could check out the fabulous Samyang 35mm f/1.4 lens, cheap to buy, maybe not wide enough for you....(?).

I use one on my Canon 5D Mk1 full-frame body with superb results.
 
daugirdas said:
17-40mm is bad enough, although there were mega soft Sigma and Tamron alternatives in the last decade.
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Perhaps, but the Sigma 15-30mm comes well recommended and I have had two copies, both of which were great lenses. Not perfect (moderate AF, prone to flare) but very wide for a very good price - usually around £175 used from memory.
 
I've played with both the Tamron 19-35 and 17-35 and would recommend either!

IMHO the 17 is the nicer lens but it tends to go in the £160 region unlike the 19 which is more like £80-£90.

I was in the same boat as you, I wanted UWA for my 1ds but couldn't justify a 17-40L as I won't use it a huge amount.

The tamron 17-35 is a permanent feature in my bag :-)

Both do however slighly vignette on a full frame

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Some shots from the 19-35 version which I sold:
Ok hopefully this will work, firstly sorry I forgot to turn the camera back to shooting large JPG...

Hopefully if I have coded this right, if you click on the photos below it will take you to the full sized one! All the exif should be there in both!

Both hand helds:

19mm @ 1/200" F/3.5 ISO 100



35mm @ 1/200" F/4.5 ISO 100

 
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Sorry to crash your thread, but I was just asking myself the same question this morning! Budget less of an issue though. Is the 17-40L the best option or are there better lenses out there? Thinking of buying a 5D MkII and would need to replace my Tokina 12-24
 
If budget is less of an issue then the latest 16-35L or if you want the best get an adaptor and a Nikon 14-24
 
danski said:
Sorry to crash your thread, but I was just asking myself the same question this morning! Budget less of an issue though. Is the 17-40L the best option or are there better lenses out there?
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There are better lenses out there and you have to remember the 17-40L is one of the cheapest L zooms. How about the 14mm 2.8 L II - but at close to £1800 it's a tad pricey....

I have a 17-40L and Sigma 12-24 (original version) on a 5D2. The 17-40 produces crisper, sharper images with better colour rendition where the two lenses overlap. The 12-24 produces better images between 12mm and 17mm ;)
 
vmlopes said:
If budget is less of an issue then the latest 16-35L or if you want the best get an adaptor and a Nikon 14-24
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Have to say that in all the reviews I've seen comparing the two lenses, there isn't anything that would make me spend 2x the price on the 16-35 unless I needed the extra stop of light....
 
What about the Tokina 16-28? Any experience/comments on this? As Arad58 says, from the reviews, the 16-35 seems similar to 17-40 in performance and struggling to justify the difference in price.
 
At the sub £200 budget level :-

The Canon EF 20-35mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Zoom lens is a small, lightweight and affordable alternative to the Canon EF 17-40mm “L” lens at about half the price which performs reasonably well.

You can read a review here.
 
danski said:
Sorry to crash your thread, but I was just asking myself the same question this morning! Budget less of an issue though. Is the 17-40L the best option or are there better lenses out there? Thinking of buying a 5D MkII and would need to replace my Tokina 12-24
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Just keep using your tokina (18-24mm range) and enjoy sharp shots. 17-40 may have nicer colours and flare resistance, but resolution is seriously pants near the edges. I'll probably swap mine for another tokina (or canon 16-35).
 
grotty said:
Perhaps, but the Sigma 15-30mm comes well recommended and I have had two copies, both of which were great lenses. Not perfect (moderate AF, prone to flare) but very wide for a very good price - usually around £175 used from memory.
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very wide and very soft, no filters either
 
Surely this depends on whether the op wants a decent wide lens or decent ultra wide lens. Most suggestions here are for ultra wides, which to me is wider than 24mm on full frame. Anyway, I can recommend the Tokina 20-35/3.5-4.5 (version without the window). Decent sharpness and only about £100. For a wide prime, I use a manual focus Carl Zeiss Distagon 28/2.8...lush.
 
I owned the Sigma 15-30mm and found it to be a cracking lens. Really wide and a nice budget option. Only downside is that it's an absolute beast of a lens. The thing is massive.
 
What about Canon 20-35mm USM?..... ApertureUk has one in for £240

Or the Tokina 20-35mmm - old but £149 and looks pretty good

draiman said:
I owned the Sigma 15-30mm and found it to be a cracking lens. Really wide and a nice budget option. Only downside is that it's an absolute beast of a lens. The thing is massive.
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Just what I was going to suggest. A much underrated lens.
 
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I'd forgotten about the 15-30...I think the hunt may be on!
 
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