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Bruce - 04 Sep 2006 01:42 GMT

I have a Nikon D70 & prefer landscape photography. Currently I use a Sigma
10 - 20 mm zoom but when I used a Nikon F2 I just had a primary 28mm Nikkor,
is the quality of say a 18mm Primary lens better than a wide angle zoom.

Bruce

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Ole Larsen - 04 Sep 2006 05:53 GMT

Bruce skrev:

> I have a Nikon D70 & prefer landscape photography. Currently I use a Sigma
> 10 - 20 mm zoom but when I used a Nikon F2 I just had a primary 28mm Nikkor,
> is the quality of say a 18mm Primary lens better than a wide angle zoom.
>
> Bruce

At the same price it should be. W-a zooms are difficult/expensive to
make really good.

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Paul Furman - 04 Sep 2006 17:51 GMT

> Bruce skrev:
>
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> At the same price it should be. W-a zooms are difficult/expensive to
> make really good.

Time to get specific though. I'm not aware of an 18mm fixed focal lens
offering and there are a bunch of 12-24 and 17-whatever zoom options out
there, some like the 17-35/2.8 are considered comparable to 'primes' but
that is big & expensive.

http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php?cat=1&grp=5
-unfortunately no price info here
AUTOFOCUS LENSES
Wide-Angle Lenses
14mm f/2.8D ED AF Nikkor
16mm f/2.8D AF Fisheye-Nikkor
18mm f/2.8D AF Nikkor <-- $800
20mm f/2.8D AF Nikkor <-- $400
24mm f/2.8D AF Nikkor
28mm f/2.8D AF Nikkor
35mm f/2D AF Nikkor

MANUAL LENSES
24mm f/2 Nikkor AI-S
28mm f/2 Nikkor AI-S
35mm f/1.4 Nikkor AI-S

Wide-Angle Zoom Lenses
17-35mm f/2.8D ED-IF AF-S Zoom-Nikkor <-- $1600
18-35mm f/3.5-4.5D ED-IF AF Zoom-Nikkor

DX Nikkor Lenses for DX Format Digital SLRs
12-24mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor
10.5mm f/2.8G ED AF DX Fisheye-Nikkor
18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G ED-IF AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor - NEW!
18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G ED-IF AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor <-- kit lens
18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor
18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S VR DX Zoom-Nikkor
17-55mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor

And the Tamron, Tokina, sigma offerings at 10-24...

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Paul Furman - 04 Sep 2006 18:09 GMT

> I'm not aware of an 18mm fixed focal lens
>
> 18mm f/2.8D AF Nikkor <-- $800
> 20mm f/2.8D AF Nikkor <-- $400

Obviously a typo/confusion. I wasn't familiar with these, they don't
seem popular, I'm not sure why.

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Adrian Boliston - 04 Sep 2006 20:15 GMT

>I have a Nikon D70 & prefer landscape photography. Currently I use a Sigma
> 10 - 20 mm zoom but when I used a Nikon F2 I just had a primary 28mm
> Nikkor,
> is the quality of say a 18mm Primary lens better than a wide angle zoom.

I thought about buying primes when I got my D70s but I'm glad I got a zoom
now. If you are a landscape photographer then you will most likely be
shooting mainly f8-f22, which makes zooms much sharper. If you shoot wide
open then you will not want a cheap zoom, but unless you do sport/portrait
then that's unlikely. I don't think there is much of a market for wide
angle primes so they probably cost a lot as not many people buy them. Only
the standard 50mm 1.8 seems good value in primes these days.

Cheers Adrian - www.boliston.co.uk

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Ed Ruf (REPLY to E-MAIL IN SIG!) - 04 Sep 2006 20:20 GMT

>I have a Nikon D70 & prefer landscape photography. Currently I use a Sigma
>10 - 20 mm zoom but when I used a Nikon F2 I just had a primary 28mm Nikkor,
>is the quality of say a 18mm Primary lens better than a wide angle zoom.

IIRC Ken Rockwell's review of the Sigma mentioned not easily correctable
distortion, which led me to go for the Tokina 12-24mm instead.
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