jay cee
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Location: United Kingdom
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Best lens for a Sony a350?
Posted: 2 Jul 2009 at 10:22 GMT
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Hi,
Am just about to buy my 1st DSLR - am liking the Sony A350 for price, functions, and flip out screen.
What would be the best wide angle lens for creating pano's?
Your thoughts appreciated...!!
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Doug Aurand
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Location: Albuquerque, NM, United States
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Re: Best lens for a Sony a350?
Posted: 2 Jul 2009 at 13:42 GMT
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jay cee
I looked at the Sony dSLRs before buying, but the availability of lenses is the problem.
The Sigma 8mm (one of the 2 most popular VR Photograpby lenses) is supposedly made for it, but its seldom in stock
Its one of the reasons Nikons & Canons are the most popular cameras for this small segment of photography, aftermarket, third party products are avalable for their mounts
Your other choice is the Sony/Minolta/Konica fisheye made for it. I forget the mm but it would be a "full frame fisheye" like the Nikkor 10.5mm
Good luck
Doug Aurand
Albuquerque, NM
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amyt76
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Re: Best lens for a Sony a350?
Posted: 9 Jul 2009 at 11:53 GMT
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I had a similar question - thanks for the detailed reply Doug, it was very useful to me, as well. Thanks! 
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dkloi
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Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Re: Best lens for a Sony a350?
Posted: 9 Jul 2009 at 19:06 GMT
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I'm using an A700 with the Sigma 10mm/2.8 fisheye. I'm finding that it's a very good combination. If I could afford it, I'd get an A900 and the Sony 16mm/2.8 fisheye or shave the Sigma 10mm. The Sigma 8mm/3.5 is hard to find in alpha mount (though they supposedly exist). The Sigma 4.5mm is also an option though the resolution would be much smaller than when using the 10mm. Tokina have recently announced they'd start making APS-C lenses for alpha mount so you may want to wait and see of the 10-17mm fisheye zoom makes it.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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