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advice about lens needed
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:53 am
by Hervé
hello, I've heard very good things about this lens... any recommandations ?
thanks
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/3 ... f_2_8.html 
Re: advice about lens needed
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:35 pm
by Leonardo
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:23 pm
by Hervé
very sharp close ups... and almost no deformation..
and from what I read from different sites.. this one does wonder.. I was just wondering if any of you has it..?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:38 pm
by Leonardo
Hervé wrote:very sharp close ups... and almost no deformation..
and from what I read from different sites.. this one does wonder.. I was just wondering if any of you has it..?
well, what type of close ups? 28mm is a pretty wide angle! wouldn't you rather a 50mm?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:49 pm
by -Adrian
Depends on if he has a full frame body. With an APS-C format sensor, i think 28 is pretty good for what he wants to do. Can't comment on this lens, not an expert
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:22 pm
by Leonardo
I'm not an expert either
.... perhaps he should go and ask at dpreview or something
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:43 pm
by -Adrian
Damn right he should.
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:16 am
by Hervé
dang... should I... nahhh, I prefer my friends here...
OK, this is to go on a NikonD200...
read the rather excellent review here...
from here..
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/28f28ais.htm
This is Nikon's sharpest wide angle lens.
This is a spectacular and inexpensive lens. There is no sharper wide angle lens made by Nikon for SLR cameras, and it is the only Nikon wide angle, along with the 15mm f/3.5, that is completely free from barrel distortion at ordinary distances.
Optically this is almost a perfect lens and one of the most perfect lenses you can get to fit a Nikon camera.
Nikon let their designers go wild on this otherwise pedestrian seeming lens. Instead of a simple 5 element design that every other 28mm f/2.8 lens uses, including the original AF version, this lens has EIGHT elements in EIGHT groups. This allows it a level of correction seen in no other Nikon wide angle. Nikon wanted to show the optical world who was boss here.