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Old 08-19-2010, 02:45 AM   #21
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What sort of lens range should we be looking at? Something like a 10-20?
Yeah, pretty much. You're not gonna get wider than that without going fisheye. Dunno what Canon's lenses are like in that range but the Tokina 11-16 would be a good choice.
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Old 08-21-2010, 06:11 PM   #22
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Yeah I bought the 55-200mm lens there, but the more I read up on it, I think I should get the VR version... but it's a good 100 dollars more. So I might return that and get a wide angle lens in its place. I can't really think of much use for a telescopic lens besides a wedding in september.
The VR really helps, especially when you're zoomed in quite a bit. The slightest movement ruins the picture. Even with VR, sometimes my photos still end up blurry. I can't imagine what they would look like without it.

Anyway, as I promised, here are some photos taken with the 55-200mm VR lens as well as my Sigma wide angle lens. There's quite a few so I'll just link them if that's ok.

Firstly, the 55-200mm lens:

The Twelve Apostles along the Great Ocean Road in Australia

A koala sitting about 10m in front of me

Same koala, zoomed in some more

Here's the wide angle lens shots:

Seahorse Island along the Great Ocean Road

Sunset at Byron Bay, Australia

Julian Rocks at Byron Bay

Queenstown, New Zealand

Mountains at Queenstown, New Zealand

More mountains around Queenstown

To show how the wide angle lens works close-up, here's a shot of a lorikeet.

I ended up using the wide-angle lens about 95% of the time while I was there. The 55-200mm lens was great when I was out looking for animals. I was able to get shots of koalas way up in the trees and a few great shots of birds at a sanctuary I went to, but outside of that the lens didn't really give me the depth I wanted.

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