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From: hope@gatech.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Wide angle lenses for Canon
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Date: Sun, 6-Nov-83 00:56:31 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  6 00:56:31 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Nov-83 01:51:58 EST
Organization: Georgia Tech School of ICS, Atlanta
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To someone who was wondering about wide-angle lenses for his AE-1:

A 24mm or 28mm gives excellent results for architectural and/or landscape
shots (among other things), although you may want to use a lens in the 
15mm-20mm range for slightly bizarre effects -- WIDE landscapes or shooting
a large object when you can't get far enough away.  Canon (FD) lenses *are*
quite expensive, but I have gotten just as good results with work-alike brands
(eg Vivitar, Tokina).  My default lens (on my A1) is a Tokina 35-70 MacroZoom,
and I rarely replace it with an 80-200 macro (unless I'm too far).  Unless you
are very picky at enlargement time, a 2X teleconverter on your "normal" lens
will do the job of a telephoto (and get you twice as much macro, to boot!).
-- 
Theodore Hope
School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA
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