Affordable Wide-Angle Leica-M Lens

[Jan1985]

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vor 1 Stunde schrieb Al Brown:

Hardly ANYTHING ever made so far in M mount can beat the price/perfromance ratio of Thypoch Simera 28mm f/1.4 lens.
But it is a Chinese lens, meaning sample variation is a thing and if it takes a hit (wall, floor, etc.) you will have a designer paperweight.

Voigtlander 15mm and (discontinued) 12mm are AWESOME, so is the Zeiss 18mm ZM. All are under 1000$ used.

I bought the Thypoch Simera 50mm 1.4. It's such a brilliant lens. 

I'm guessing that 28mm is not wide enough. Because I need to do indoor shots of several rooms to create a portfolio for a public institution.

So I think a 21mm would be a good choice or? Because it should not have too much distortion?

Edited March 28 by Jan1985

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[lct]

Just now, Jan1985 said:

Leica M11

Then i vote for my favorite WA and UWA "affordable" lenses on this camera: Heliar 12/5.6, Heliar 15/4.5 v2, Skopar 21/4. Distortion is not huge on the Skopar but for better results there i would warmly recommend the C-Biogon 21/4.5.

[spydrxx]

At 21 mm there will be distortion, but you can probably fix most of it in post processing (I've had pretty good success here).

[lct]

24 minutes ago, spydrxx said:

At 21 mm there will be distortion

Very little barrel distortion on the C-Biogon 21/4.5, which has more vignetting than the Skopar 21/4 though.

[Tessar.]

10 hours ago, Jan1985 said:

Architecture, Indoor Rooms, Landscape

< 1.000 $

< 28mm

>>The Zeiss ZM lenses include 25mm f/2.8

 

I second the 25mm ZM.  Great lens.

[J S H]

If you want a very versatile lens, take a look at the Laowa 12-24 F5.6. It's slow, but that shouldn't be an issue for tripod based interiors and it has surprisingly good image quality. They also make a 15 F2 that may be faster than you need, but it has excellent IQ  and also has very low distortion. Both of those lenses are well under 1K in cost.