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Iceland, which 21mm ?


Paul Verrips

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To the OP. Don't worry about which is the best 21mm. Get the cheapest 21mm that will be satisfactory, and use any money you have saved for an excursion/trip when you get there. An experence is so much better than an ever so slightly sharper image on a computer screen!!!

 

Another idea, is to do a photography seminar or landscape course.

 

 

The best idea, imho, is that after you get the 'cheap' lens, take your wife/husband/partner/friend out to dinner with the money you "saved".  :D         Stopped many-a-row in my house...    :ph34r: 

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For film, I second the ZM Biogon-C, which is a much nicer than the CV 21/4. In fact, it's one of the best 21mm lenses ever made. On digital, it has some color shift issues that are a bit of a pain but correctable with Adobe Flat Field.

 

21mm is something that is easy to overvalue for landscapes (unless you have a foreground subject, it is a focal length that threatens to bland-ify anything it touches). If you really do need to go this wide, I'd also check out the 18mm ZM Distagon, which can often be had for $700 or so, and which is one of very few superwides that is sharp corner-to-corner on the digital bodies.

 

Dante

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Decided to buy the CV 21/f4.0 because of the weight and price difference, reading the posts i assume f/4.0 will do fine.  :)

 

Good decision!

I own a SEM 3.4/21, but sometimes I think about the small size and also good performance of the Skopar!

Missing a half stop doesn't matter ... ;)

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