Best wide angle landscape lens for D300

<p>I have a D300 and I don't do much landscape photography, but want to do more. I use my 17-55mm DX Nikkor on my D300 for all my landscape wide angle stuff. I would like to rent a different wide landscape lens before I decide what to buy, but what do you recommend I try? </p><div></div>

<p>I use and would recommend you try the Nikon 12-24 f4 AFS.</p>

<p>Tokina 11-17mm/f2.8 and Nikon 10-24mm will give you a really wide experience. Both are great lenses.</p>

<p>I'm very happy with my Nikon 10-24, but have heard excellent things about the Tokina 11-16/2.8. I find my 10-24 to be very sharp and I love the 2.4x zoom range - ultra-wide to 36mm equivalent. I also don't mind the variable apperture. The Tokina is more specialized, but has a bit more speed and a contant apperture (and costs a bit less). You'd probably love either.</p>

<p>Jessica, you are amazing! You have one image in your portfolio, and it is GREAT!</p>

<p>On Topic: You might try stitching multiple images for shots like you posted above. The higher resolution truly helps.</p>

<p>Jessica, not really sure what your budget is, the tokina 12-24 is very nice and reasonable at around $500.</p>

<p>I just bought the Tokina 11-16 2.8 and I like it. I thought it fit in well with the 17-55 better than what Nikon has to offer.</p>

<p>I shot with it this past weekend on a trip. First time using an ultrawide for me and it was interesting. I really liked that it forced me to think about the foreground much more than ever before. And it's also clear now that wider is not always better, which was hard for me to understand without actually having used an ultrawide.</p>

<p>In any case I like the tokina, and find the zoom range pretty reasonable as it gets you from really wide to normal wide. On my trip to amsterdam this weekend the 17-55 stayed home, I brought the Tokina and the 50 1.8 which worked out really well. I think maybe I would prefer the 35 1.8 instead, but I don't have it. For me I think generally I don't need anything else.</p>

<p>I'm really happy with Tokina 11-16 f/2.8<br>

Also a few days back I borrowed my friend's Nikon 12-24 f/4 and I really like it too.<br>

I don't think you can go wrong with either one of them.</p>

<p>I use Sigma 10-20 and it works good for me.</p>

<p>I also have the Sigma 10-20 f/4-5.6. It's very sharp and well built and it's a good value. My one complaint is noticable barrell distortion at 10mm. It doesn't bother me, but if you're looking for a lens with minimal linear distortion, it may be a problem for you. I don't know if the new f/3.5 version corrected the distortion.</p>

<p>At this point I would get the Nikon 10-24mm/f3.5-4.5 AF-S DX instead of the 12-24mm/f4 AF-S DX. The extra 2mm on the wide end makes some difference.</p>

<p>I have been using the Tokina 12-24 F4 Dii on my D300s. No complaints at all..</p>

<p>I am also using the Tokina 11-16/2.8 and I totaly happy wiht this. Greate contrast, nice sharpening, I have to admit that I hardly use this whide open 2.8 because I shoot almost during the day... but I use it couple of time during night and it is lovely.</p>

<p>To try:<br>

Tokina 11-16 /2.8 because it's the darling (early copies seemed to have some issues based on what I read)</p>

<p>Nikon 10-24 because it's the new darling ;)</p>

<p>Sigma 10-20 (either the old 4 - 5.6 or the new 3.5 constant version) because Thom likes it (bythom.com)</p>

<p>FWIW, I shoot the Sigma. A coworker let me try his, the reviews were good at the time and the budget was right. I'm not sure if I'd make a different choice today. :) Some samples if you care<br>

http://bjornsramblings.blogspot.com/search?q=sigma</p>