Cheapo wide-angle lens recommendations needed. Nikon fit.

Mutt

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I'm after a temporary second-hand wide-angle lens for my D90 until I can scrape together enough cash for something decent. AF isn't important because I'm pretty comfortable with manual focusing.

Ideally it'd be an f2.8 and have a decent amount of sharpness. Because of the crop factor of the D90 I'd be wanting something in the 10-14mm range.

Has anyone picked one up for less than £50 (my budget) and been happy with it?
 
Mutt said:
I'm after a temporary second-hand wide-angle lens for my D90 until I can scrape together enough cash for something decent. AF isn't important because I'm pretty comfortable with manual focusing.

Ideally it'd be an f2.8 and have a decent amount of sharpness. Because of the crop factor of the D90 I'd be wanting something in the 10-14mm range.

Has anyone picked one up for less than £50 (my budget) and been happy with it?
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To be honest mate I have never seen any lens worth putting on a camera for £50 or less other than a 2nd hand kit lens.
 
Basically the only way to get decent lenses that cheap is old, now dead formats' prime lenses. Since you're on a crop however, you're not gonna get anything cheap that's actually very wide - the widest cheaper wideangles went tended to be 24mm or 28mm.

Just use the boggo kit lens, there's not much that's gonna beat a stopped down kit lens by any meaningful stretch until you're spending several hundred pounds in terms of wideangles.
 
Thanks for the replies chaps.

What I had in mind was a lens made in the 70's or 80's. An old clunky looking gem that most people have forgotten or don't know about. If there's really nothing out there I may as well hang on to the cash (which is hard for me) and put it toward the Tokina 11-16mm.
 
Mutt said:
What I had in mind was a lens made in the 70's or 80's. An old clunky looking gem that most people have forgotten or don't know about. If there's really nothing out there I may as well hang on to the cash (which is hard for me) and put it toward the Tokina 11-16mm.
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Exactly what I'm talking about. There won't be anything that wide because they were all designed for 35mm cameras so none of the cheap primes really went wider than 28mm
 
Fair enough mate. It was worth asking. A 28mm might be worth considering in the short term. I've only got two lenses right now, a nifty fifty and a Sigma 70-200 which equate to 75mm and 105-300mm with the crop factor. Not a lot of scope for anything other than portraits and some sports photography.
 
Any cheap (and it will be more than £50) lens will not only be manual focus it will also be manual exposure as it won't meter on a D90.

Just save your money for now and make do with the kit lens.

Dave
 
Mutt said:
Fair enough mate. It was worth asking. A 28mm might be worth considering in the short term. I've only got two lenses right now, a nifty fifty and a Sigma 70-200 which equate to 75mm and 105-300mm with the crop factor. Not a lot of scope for anything other than portraits and some sports photography.
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Then get a kit lens, at the wide end they do f3.5 which isn't much slower then you were looking for.
 
I bought a D90 body with no kit lens but for a while I used the 18-70mm kit lens from my D70. That was sold to put towards an SB-800.

Considering the advice you fella's have given I think I'll hold out for the Tokina and beg, steal or borrow a competent compact for any wide-angle shots. The photos will be resized down to 500px-1000px at most so a compact will do the job for now.
 
You're thoroughly lacking anything in the normal range there (17-50 on a crop)

Might as well get a kit lens as even once you have the Tokina, you'll still have a gap there.
 
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