Wide angle camera. I need a better understanding of what i need to look for.

[thedoc46]

I had an LG G5 smartphone, which had dual lenses. The phone was upgraded to an S8, but i'm really missing the wide angle photo capabilities that i had with this. My wife does some real estate (we're in the USA so don't hate on us Anyway, i'd use this phone to take pictures of rooms that are otherwise impossible to take with say my Nikon D50, which has according the numbers i'm looking at now, a 28-70mm 1:2.8-4 lens or my iPhone 7. Or the Samsung S8, that replaced the LG G5 smart phone. The D50 was the worst camera, while the quality was nicest, you could hardly get anything of the room in it ! Great for portrait photo's of the kids, but useless for taking pics trying to get an entire room.

I don't know anything about photography or how to read the numbers or what they mean, which is really why i'm posting this.

Here are the specs of the LG G5 camera: Dual 16 MP (29mm, f/1.8) + 8 MP (12mm, f/2.4)

I 'think' it was the 8mp 12mm f/2.4 that gave the nice wide angle lens.

I could use this second lens and get an entire room in the shot, which would yield really nice results.

I'd like to either buy a replacement SLR lens that would do the same thing for my Nikon D50 DSLR, (are they all a standard fit? this is an old DSLR, about 12yrs old !!! or an inexpensive point and click. The photos that are used are always sized down to a pretty low res, so it doesn't have to be anything fancy. The LG G5 did a good enough job ! so i'm sure a $200 camera that's just a camera would suffice.

Would a Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ70 do the same wide angle photos ?

What numbers / spec do i need to look for, to make sure i'm buying a wide angle lens.

There's no camera shops anymore, it has to be purchased online, so want to learn what i need to look for in the specs.

I'll get watching some YT videos but in the meantime, you guys normally come good in answering these questions.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Marzipanogram]

You mentioned that the images are going to be sized down and you want to do it as cheap as possible.
I would just use the phone you have (or any camera), but create panoramas from stitching multiple shots together.
You could buy a cheap tripod and phone mount, so that when you stitch the photos together, the software can do it more efficiently.
Just remember to overlap the images enough when you pan the phone/camera from side to side and/or up and down.


If you want to do it professionally and properly, I'd recommend Tilt Shift lens (the Canon 17mm TS-E specifically), so your verticals are vertical.
There's nothing worse than wonky verticals or horizontals in architectural photography.


If you pay for my flights & accommodation, I'll come over and give you free lessons

 

[D.P.]

You had a completely stupid lens on the D50, that is why you couldn't get a wide angle.