Advice on a wide angle lens

canon400d

I have a Canon400D and I have the usual kit lens Canon 18-55mm. I have since purchased a few lenses as you can see what I have from my profile. However, I just feel that the 18-55mm wide lens is not very good for landscape shots. I find that the detail is far too small and I have been relying on my other lenses for landscape shots.
Do I continue using the other telephoto lenses or can you please advise on a good wide angle lens.
Thanks once again for all your kind help.
Bob

gubbs

canon400d wrote:

I have a Canon400D and I have the usual kit lens Canon 18-55mm. I have since purchased a few lenses as you can see what I have from my profile. However, I just feel that the 18-55mm wide lens is not very good for landscape shots. I find that the detail is far too small and I have been relying on my other lenses for landscape shots.
Do I continue using the other telephoto lenses or can you please advise on a good wide angle lens.
Thanks once again for all your kind help.
Bob

Bob, I'm confused by "the detail is far too small" show us an example of what you mean.
If you are looking for a wide angle I'd recommend Canon's EFS 10-22mm

SloYerRoll

gubbs wrote:

Bob, I'm confused by "the detail is far too small" show us an example of what you mean.
If you are looking for a wide angle I'd recommend Canon's EFS 10-22mm

The way I'm traslating this post gubbs.. If you switch to a 10-22 the detail will be even smaller.
While there are better lens' out there than the 18-55. None of them are going to help any photog take better pictures. They will just let more area in their shot.

-Jon

saurora

canon400d wrote:

I have a Canon400D and I have the usual kit lens Canon 18-55mm. I have since purchased a few lenses as you can see what I have from my profile. However, I just feel that the 18-55mm wide lens is not very good for landscape shots. I find that the detail is far too small and I have been relying on my other lenses for landscape shots.
Do I continue using the other telephoto lenses or can you please advise on a good wide angle lens.
Thanks once again for all your kind help.
Bob

What 'other' lens are you relying on if the detail is 'too small'? Perhaps you are not really looking for 'wide angle'?

canon400d

saurora wrote:

What 'other' lens are you relying on if the detail is 'too small'? Perhaps you are not really looking for 'wide angle'?

Thanks for your reply. As I have said, I feel the 18-55 lens is ok for shots around my garden which is 100 yards x 40 yards. If I take a wide angle shot beyond that distance everything seems so far away and so small, which is not really the case. When I use my canon 70-200F4L it puts everything in better prospective. I thought there would be a smaller lens than the 70-200 that would meet my requirements better if you understand what I mean.
Thanks again for your kind help.
Bob

gubbs

canon400d wrote:

Thanks for your reply. As I have said, I feel the 18-55 lens is ok for shots around my garden which is 100 yards x 40 yards. If I take a wide angle shot beyond that distance everything seems so far away and so small, which is not really the case. When I use my canon 70-200F4L it puts everything in better prospective. I thought there would be a smaller lens than the 70-200 that would meet my requirements better if you understand what I mean.
Thanks again for your kind help.
Bob

Bob,
It sounds as though you don't want a wide lens at all if that is the case you could swap your 18-55 for a 24-70 or 24-105.
But TBH I'd keep the 18-55 and the 70-200 and zoom the missing 15 mm of range with your feet .

mr peas

Interesting, I think he means he wants to shoot small things to make them look bigger. Is that correct?

If so, for the money a Canon 100mm 2.8 Macro would be a good choice, or the Sigma 150mm. If you plan to shoot bugs, possibly the MP-E 65mm Canon would be good, but w/ the Canon 100mm 2.8 can be used for that as it is or w/ extension tubes.

Go on google, type in '(lens name) (focal lenght of lens) samples' and it will bring you samples of the lens on a pbase site:

http://www.pbase.com/cameras/canon/ef_100_28_macro_u

those images are w/ the ef 100mm canon. see if you like those images and if its the perspective you're trying to get. its slightly smaller than the 70-200 too.