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Advertisement Category: Want To Sell (WTS) Equipment Type: Lens Equipment Brand: Canon Equipment Model: EFS 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS Price (S$): $450 Description: I'm selling of my EFS 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS, barely used (I've only used it once, for a trip to the zoo with my hubby and son), and it...

If I'm gonna pay 200-300 odd just to rent the lens, I might as well buy the lens as one of you mentioned. Which is exactly what I thought as well. My only concern is buying second hand, what should I look out for? Any help, pointers or tips?

Only problem I have with buying second hand is if the lens are treated properly in the owner's care. Because I'm a newbie, I'm not able to spot these flaws just by looking at the lens. My biggest fear is that the ex owner could have dropped it before... I will skip the idea of the...

Oh I did come across that thread...just didn't read what the rest said.

I have a canon 500d, and I'm looking for a wide angle converter for landscape photos. I've searched about it online and most of it were either ppl getting conned by paying exorbitant prices for them, or they were just unboxing and comparison videos. The ones that I've seen on the net are the...

I kinda figured too, 0.5f. Plus the f3.5 will fit a bigger filter than 77mm, which are harder to find and more expensive. Thanks for letting me know that they are grey sets...

I did a little research on the lens 8-16mm and 10-20mm by Sigma. The 8-16mm (like one of you mentioned) has a large protruding lens which makes the lens unable to take filters. And the 10-20mm is slightly less protruded, allowing it to fit a filter on it. I definitely want something where I...

If it was wide enough, I wouldn't even be considering wider lens... IQ? as in image quality? I know you do get distortions, but you can't really have the best of both worlds right? Besides, many of you pointed out that there isn't such a thing as the BEST wide angle lens...

Yes finally! All I wanted to know! Thanks to all who replied, I learnt quite a bit.

I'm not saying I want something that is equivalent to 35mm. My concern is, I don't wanna buy a lens and later realize that due to the crop factor the pictures produced on the camera is somewhat cropped smaller. And if that is the case, a sigma 8-16mm would be a better choice because after...

So either way, made for my cropped body cam or not, the 10-22mm will not be 10-22mm but 16-35.2mm. That above is what I understand, because when u said made for cropped bodies, I thought it will be 10-22mm. Like say sigma 8-16mm, made for APS-C would have an equivalent angle of 12-24mm lens...

I thought rectilinear is straight lens as one of the members mentioned on this thread? Curvilinear is FE? I'm not considering fisheye because I don't like the distortion. But I thought it wouldn't be much of a fisheye because of the crop factor thus giving me a wider focal range. But thinking...

Ah you see, that's where I didn't know that the 10-22mm is made for cropped bodies. I read we just have to consider crop factor, even a local cam shop told me that (which isn't wrong). It's not how wide I want it to be, I want a 10-22mm, but I don't want it ending up as a 16-35.2mm on my cam...

Found this: http://www.digital-slr-guide.com/crop-factor.html So it's true to get a wider angle lens if you are using a cropped body as it will be multiplied by 1.6x. So a 10-22mm will be more zoomed in on my cam compared to a full body slr/dslr. Pros, correct?

Yes it's from that picture that I kinda gathered my conclusion from. So am I wrong to say that if mine was a 1.6x crop, then the 10-20/22mm would be less wide as the area it can capture/see is only within those blue lines as compared to the 10-22mm mounted on a 35mm full body cam... I'm am...