SONY 10-18mm F/4.0 OSS

[philippeluyckx]

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[worldpixel]

Since the sel 10 - 18 covers 10 , 11 ,12 - 18 focal length. Which here do you find useful? 10mm or 18mm , or 16mm is good enough? If sony releases a 15mm f1.8 that would be killer =)

[Austerror]

10 to 18mm is useful

 

The results are much nicer than the 16mm prime. The 'long' end is equivalent to 27mm close enough to 28-30mm range as to make little difference.  Thus the 18mm end can be useful for all sorts of photography.  The 10mm end, in my opinion, is not as flexible.  Street photography at 10mm does not work for me.

[Golem]

Which lens are you talking about that is a Canon EF-S mount?

  

 

Sorry for the late reply but if the info is still

of any use [or not] it's f/4.5-5.6 STM. It's a

genuine instance of "Cheap Thrills". Slow

max apertures, plastic bayonet, but a real

blast to use. IQ and AF are excellent when

there's enuf light to use this, but it's no way

a low light champion. 

  

If I could ever find a camera system worth

maintaining, I'd want a "more serious" take

on this lens as a mainstay of that system. 

   

 

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[dbaechli]

Golem

 

I just got a Lensbaby Fisheye 5.8mm f3.5 (clearance CHF 150). Does mount on the a7, despite being EF-S, or made for APS-C (with the -expensive- metabones smart adapter, though). Pic in ff mode is pretty small, in APS-C mode it does look like on the Canon. Funny that your EF-S doesn't fit. Maybe with a different adapter?

 

Other option to use the cheap 10-18: get the cute Canon 100D. The set just sold here for CHF 349 with 18-55 IS and 50 bucks cash back.. OK - maybe not what you plan to do with the lens in combination with your Sony cam. But that Canon 100D.. I think that was the only really brilliant move Canon made lately..

[worldpixel]

10 to 18mm is useful

 

The results are much nicer than the 16mm prime. The 'long' end is equivalent to 27mm close enough to 28-30mm range as to make little difference.  Thus the 18mm end can be useful for all sorts of photography.  The 10mm end, in my opinion, is not as flexible.  Street photography at 10mm does not work for me.

 

If you focus mainly on exteriors and landscapes on the 10 - 18 focal length, 15 is good enough right? Wish there was a 14mm prime lines. Or basically 18mm is good enough for street and landscapes as well right?

[dbaechli]

If you want to photograph streets and landscapes (or say, cityscapes) 10-18 as fullframe is good, wide, dramatic, as APS-C (=15-27mm) it's still OK. If you want to shot STREET, like in Streetphotography, people, scenes, in the so called classic streetphotography way, a different focal length might be more useful.

 

AS FOR WIDE PRIMES: you don't need AF for wide primes and there's choice galore! Voigtländer has 12mm f5.6, 15mm f4.5 (the latest one is specially made for the Sony, but they are all in M-mount). Fullframe lenses, adapt well, but need post processing. The 15 VIII is very well controlled, though..

 

Wide prime fullframe lenses for not so much money: Voigtländer, Zeiss is more expensive, and other than that, you can adapt pretty much anything to the e-mount / mirrorless systems..

[zcarenow]

The following picture is made with the 10-18 mm on the A7 which is full-frame. It is cropped from 4000x6000 down to 3878 x 5817 pixels - a minor loss. Yes, there is a shadow at the corner which I like in this picture.

 

DSC03203-4.jpg

 

Did you intentionally blur the boats? A special effect?

[Golem]

Golem

 

........ Funny that your EF-S doesn't fit.

Maybe with a different adapter?

 

Other option to use the cheap 10-18: get the

cute Canon 100D. The set just sold here for

CHF 349 with 18-55 IS and 50 bucks cash back..

OK - maybe not what you plan to do with the

lens in combination with your Sony cam. But

that Canon 100D.. I think that was the only

really brilliant move Canon made lately..

Maybe I wasn't clear about exactly where it

doesn't fit. Where it does NOT fit is onto my

FF Canon. If I had a FF Sony with an adapter

for Canon EF lenses, most likely it WOULD fit

and I'd see just how much extra image circle

is going to waste when I put this lens on my

"Cute Canon" [yes I have the camera, and

the cheap 10-18, that you are recommending].

 

However, not yet having a FF Sony onto which

to adapt my Canon EF-S 10-18 4.5-5.6 STM,

my use of it is limited to my 100D which is so

damndt cute that its sensor is smaller than

any other brand of APS-C sensor [1.6 factor

instead of 1.5X].

 

My frustration is that Canon EF-S lenses can

NOT be mounted on a FF Canon ... and I have

a FF Canon :-(

 

Hope that clears things up a bit !

 

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AFAIK, Nikon DX lens DO mount on Nikon FX

bodies. But that's Nikon, the champions of

Reverse Compatability. Canon took advantage

of the shorter reflex mirror in APS-C bodies

and built some of their EF-S lens with more

rear protrusion than would be allowed on an

EF lens, which has to avoid collision with the

longer mirror in a FF body. Thus some Canon

EF-S lenses [maybe all of them ??] have too

much rear protrusion to fit on FF Canons.

 

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[OldNoob]

Beautiful samples

[OldNoob]

The following picture is made with the 10-18 mm on the A7 which is full-frame. It is cropped from 4000x6000 down to 3878 x 5817 pixels - a minor loss. Yes, there is a shadow at the corner which I like in this picture.

 

DSC03203-4.jpg

Stunning Capture!