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Recommended Wide Angle Lens

Started by tomlicha, 11/04/2002 06:23PM
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Tom Licha
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Hi all,

can anyone recommend a good wide angle lens arround 16mm? I had a close look at a Zenitar 16mm. Does anyone know about the performance on stars?

Thanx
Tom
mehr freude. http://www.licha.de/AstroWeb 49° 13' 54" N
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Paul McCarl
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Tom,

This was shotwith the Zenitar 16mm and a canon Ellan IIe:

http://home.attbi.com/~mmccarl/astronomy/16mm_milkyway.JPG

I really like the lens with my D60, I need it due to the 1.6x multiplication factor due to the APS sized chip. I am told that stopping down the lens a bit would have cleaned up some of the coma seen in the picture.

Paul
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