wide angle shots? photoshopped or lens

[ihateyou760]

im pretty new to photography, but my question is when shooting with lets say a nikon d40 w/ the lens kit can you produce this kind of shot or is it from a lens lower than 18 mm that can achieve it?

[HKYStormFront]

on a crop body you will need a wider lens than 18mm. nikon's "crop factor" is a multiplaction of 1.5 vs the focal length the lens would be on a full frame camera (ie the D700). on a D700, 18mm = 18mm, but on your D40, 18mm looks like what 27mm would look like on a full frame. you need something in the 10-15mm range to get a true "ultra wide angle" view of the scene withought going fisheye

[TW0R]

Shot with a kit lens and stitched together in photoshop or hugin, dont remember which one.

[ihateyou760]

cool thanks for the info. do you guys know of any site that sells a lens anywhere from 10mm to 24mm price range of 400 or less?

[DigitalMom]

Not really sure but I'm sure if you did a "nikon 10mm" search on B&H or where ever, it would narrow your search down

[sfr002]

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc....html#features

$470 but not sure if it will auto focus on the D40 not sure what abbreviation Tamron AF-S is.

Looks like it should Autofocus with the D40

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tamron/10-24mm.htm

[The Mack]

It could be from a 200mm lens for all you really know though. If there is enough line of sight, etc.
I'd assume it's a wide angle though, but it's hard to know.

I always used the 12-24 on my D50/D200 and had no problems.

[slingle]

For what it's worth
I had the Sigma 10-20mm (the first version) i think it was like f4.5-5.6
That will autofocus on your D40 and is around your price range

here is a shot from it on a d80 at Folly Beach

(click for flickr)

[ihateyou760]

thanks for the help

[newbix]

buy my 10-24..

[abs0Lut]

I am sure I could pull that shot off with my Tamron 17-50mm, even with a crop sensor. just take a few steps further back and anything shot can be as wide as u want it to be lol.