Nikon 14-24mm on Canon?

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I've been reading online about various possible wide angle-ish lenses for my Canon 7d. I have looked at various lenses (including the 10-22mm, 8-16mm etc) but none are ideal optically and the Canon 14mm prime is too expensive and inflexible for me.

The Nikon 14-24mm has an incredible reputation (and looking at sample pictures online, I can see why), but has anyone used one (MF only) on a Canon body - using something like this adapter?

If so, I'd love to know your views! (y)
 
What's wrong with the Canon 10-22?
 
pchidell said:
Nothing inherently wrong with it but I've heard that it has quite a bit of vignetting and isn't as sharp... But I'm open to all options - I'm just so torn!
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It's very, very sharp. It's an L lens in optical quality and I get absolutely no Vignetting on mine at all.

Best UWA in a crop sensor IMO and completely pointless going for an adapted Nikon lens when you can have a Canon 10-22 straight out the box!
 
odd jim said:
It's very, very sharp. It's an L lens in optical quality and I get absolutely no Vignetting on mine at all.

Best UWA in a crop sensor IMO and completely pointless going for an adapted Nikon lens when you can have a Canon 10-22 straight out the box!
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It's good to hear another opinion, thanks! I'd read the review from the Digital Picture and it says there that it's "reasonably sharp" but shows "strong vignetting". But as I said, I'm not at all decided so I may still go with the 10-22mm.
 
Maybe a 14-24mm if you had a 5D MK II, but not a 7D. Go for the Canon 10-22mm.
 
Vignetting is something that can be measured and viewed on line, let Google be your friend.

I do agree with what you've read about the Canon 10-22mm and I sold mine because I thought that I could buy a better lens and I believe that I have, however every mm matters at the wide and although the Nikon has a stella reputation it starts at 14mm and there are lenses that go wider on APS-C and it might be worth going for more width despite having to accept a drop in overall quality.
 
The Nikon is incredible and I have seen them adapted to canon because there isn't a canon lens that comes close for image quality. BUT on a crop sensor I think it would be wasted, if you were on a full frame then it may be worth consideration. If I did a lot of UWA stuff I would buy Nikon for that lens alone.
 
14mm is not all the wide on a cropped body anyway, how about a 15-85 on the Canon which is supposed to be a cracking lens assuming you don't need a real wide angle lens?

And if you love the 14-24 that much what's wrong with a D700? :D
 
Think it was a D700 I tried it on. absolutely fantastic setup... that I can no way afford :)
 
The 14-24 only works properly on the nikon with the auto focus etc I know it fits a canon who don't even come close with this lens
 
14-24 is lovely, but on a crop Canon body with MF only? Thats a lot of spondoolies for that limitation...

Have a play with the Canon 10-22, I absolutely loved that lens on my Canon.
 
The performance of the Nikon 14-24 is amazing. Here is a photo taken at Tesco. The lens was at f10 not its sharpest aperture and focused on the £7.99 sign about 5m away on the LHS. The crop is a direct crop from the LH lower corner of the original image. This would have been sharper if I was using say f8 and focused a lot closer but it gives you and idea of the sharpness.


That said using one on a Canon body without the use of an aperture ring and the high cost of the lens in the first place makes it a bit of none starter IMHO.

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if you were using a full frame canon maybe worth getting 14-24mm , but on a crop frame camera is not going to be used to its best.
it is a mega lens , but its on a full frame camera.

cheers Steve
 
This might be a record... But thanks for all your responses!

I've got a 5d mark ii now, so the decision has been made for me (16-35mm). But I do still wish Canon would introduce a full-frame lens as good as Nikon's.
 
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