Can you get a zoom wide-angle lens?

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I appreciate this may be the stupidest question ever asked :D but as a newbie with only 7 months under my belt I figure I may just be able to get away with it!!!!

I'm currently a little bit (read: a lot!) in love with my sigma 10-20mm lens. In fact it was all I used yesterday when we had a day trip to St Andrews. But sometimes I want to zoom in closer to a subject (eg a skyline or coastline as it was yesterday) but still retain the beautiful wide angle effects.

Is that at all possible?! I think the answer is "no" but it's been niggling me for a while now. I suspect the alternative is a fisheye lens or fisheye filter, but that's a totally different effect to the wide angle.
 
Yes, its called yer feet. Walk closer and use use the Sigma :lol:
 
After the 10-20mm sigma, I use a 24mm prime; I'm also hoping to get hold of a Tamron 17-50 tomorrow so will see how that performs.
 
You could of course shoot say at 50mm, then pan left a bit and shoot another, then pan left a bit again and shoot another and then use a program like PTgui to stich them together and hey presto, a super wide image shot at 50mm.

Just a thought.
 
Digifrog said:
You could of course shoot say at 50mm, then pan left a bit and shoot another, then pan left a bit again and shoot another and then use a program like PTgui to stich them together and hey presto, a super wide image shot at 50mm.

Just a thought.
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Worth a try, definitely!
 
A zoom is any lens with variable focal length. Your 10-20mm is a zoom. What your are asking for is longer focal length.

Alternatively, the foot-zoom idea works pretty well ;) and with a longer lens fitted to start with, panorama technique is also good. It's very easy with clever (free) software and you don't usually need a tripod - just a few overlapped images with the camera held as level as you can. Quality is fantastic, as you are multiplying the sensor area with every additional frame :thumbs:

Another thought - Canon 15-85mm. It's the widest standard range zoom you can get, and if 15mm is wide enough for you (try it on your 10-20mm) then there is far more reach available at the 85mm end. It's also very sharp, and has excellent IS. Brilliant walkabout range lens.
 
Three choices:
1) use your feet to zoom in
2) buy lens smth like 17-55
3) buy expensive and useless converter
 
Thanks Hoppy. I'm still getting my terminology mixed up.

I do have a Canon 17-85mm in my bag as well as a couple of others. And agree it's a good walkabout lens. I guess what I'm missing is the lovely effects I get with the 10-20mm. I like what it does to the image IYSWIM.

But I think my question has been answered so thank you all :)
 
HoppyUK said:
. It's very easy with clever (free) software and you don't usually need a tripod - just a few overlapped images with the camera held as level as you can. Quality is fantastic, as you are multiplying the sensor area with every additional frame :thumbs:
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Any recommendations for the software?
 
i think what you are asking for, is can you get the interesting perspective distortion that a wide angle lens gives, without being close to the subject.

No.

Hope that answers your question :)
 
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