Wide angle with minimal distortion?

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Hi folks,

I'm wanting to purchase a wide angle lens for my 60D but I want one with little distortion as I'm beginning to tire of the fisheye look for skating edits. I'm looking to spend hopefully around £200 and don't mind buying second hand.

Can anyone make any decent recommendation of some lenses I should be looking at?

Does anyone have any experience with the Sigma 10-20mm?
 
With UWA you're always going to get a bit of 'distortion' simply because its so wide, but it can be fixed in PP. I've used a friends 10-20 sigma on my crop sensor 400D when doing interior photography and i really like it. Its not a fisheye lens, just very wide.
 
An awful lot of people use the sigma and love it on both Canon and Nikon. It's not distortion free - no lens that wide will be - but it's a lot less than any fisheye lenses and you'd be hard pushed to find a similarly wide lens for less.
 
Keebsuk said:
I have a 60D and use a Sigma 10-20 f3.5. It's a cracking lens and the only draw back are if you use screw in filters as it takes an 82mm thread :(.

Andy
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The F4-5.6 only uses 77mm however, and is within your budget 2nd hand. F3.5 is quite a bit more expensive.
 
The 11-16 is one I've looked at. What's the lowest price that I'd be looking to pay for one at second hand? Roughly of course.

Having had a look around theres a 12-24 f4 lens, is there a lot of difference between the quality of this one and the Tokina 11-16 apart from the loss of 1mm at the widest end and 6mm at the longer?
 
wide angle lenses show distortion to a greater or lessor degree - it depends how you use them - and how much you pay - you're budget is way too low for a quality UWA.
 
DPP software (comes free with the camera) has custom corrections for distortion on Canon lenses - and for CA and vignetting. You just have to shoot Raw. It's only a mouse-click away.

Lightroom does it too, including other brand lenses.
 
HoppyUK said:
DPP software (comes free with the camera) has custom corrections for distortion on Canon lenses - and for CA and vignetting. You just have to shoot Raw. It's only a mouse-click away.

Lightroom does it too, including other brand lenses.
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I'd be using the lens for video mostly.

I've found a Tokina 12-24mm f4 for just over £200 second hand in perfect condition.

Think I may opt for this one unless anyone can give any reasons not to?
 
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