Which "type" of wide angle?

[Raenstoirm]

I have had my Nex 5N for a few days and I am loving it. After perusing 99 pages of ultra wide angle shots on here, I want to bring an ultra with me. I have the 2.8/16 wide angle and the 18-55 kit lens. Sony seems to make 2 ultra wides, so I need to decide which to buy. I want to stick with sony for now as they are a lot cheaper than having to buy a lens and an adapter and have to fiddle with all that. But there are also 49mm converters from other companies that might work as well.
SO my three options are the
Sony VCL ECU1 Converter which is a .75 wide angle
or the
Sony VCL ECF1 Converter which is a Fisheye - 0.62 x
or the unknown lens.

I dont think I would get the most out of a fish eye since I am not really into those kind of shots, but I am also concerned that .75 isnt wide enough.

As for the unknown lens though there seems to be a nice looking lens on ebay ebay lense. It seems super wide, but also can be altered to prevent the strong fish eye look, but I have no idea about the quality.

We leave for WDW next friday, so I really need to buy this today so it gets here on time.

Suggestions?

 

[zackiedawg]

The .75x addon for your 16mm lens is the perfect option right now for your NEX. It doesn't add much size or weight, and it will give you a 12mm wide lens - which with your camera's crop factor is 18mm - definitely wide enough to make the UWA page! Most UWA lenses are between 10mm and 12mm on the wide end, so that would put you right on target. And it's cheap, and the NEX-5N has built-in lens correction for the 16mm lens.

Your other options would involve purchasing either a manual lens adapter and manually focusing, or getting the much bigger and more expensive LA-EA2 adapter and purchase a Sony Alpha mount UWA lens of your choice to get autofocus. The 16mm's ECU1 add-on lens is a perfect compromise - not too expensive, very effective, makes for a decently fast UWA of 12mm F2.8, and maintains your camera's compactness and autofocus ability.