one more thing to consider is a wide angle lens can be fish-eye or not fish-eye. you can get more people to fit in with fisheyes but it will distort the image so i'm not sure if you like that or not.

keep in mind that UWA lenses need a lot of 'care' when using. you dont want anyone to be too near to the edge because of the distortion. then when you correct the distortion in post-processing, those people might have to be cropped out haha.

you will be taking in a lot of stuff from the background, which usually ends up as distraction. so always need to look out for this.

that being said, a well-done wide angle fisheye shot can look amazing

alternative? if you're the active sort of person, consider a GoPro for group photos

just another explanation regarding the crop factor:
- Nikon "FX" cameras = full frame. "DX" 1.5 crop
- So for example if you use a 35mm lens on an FX, you'll get a 35mm view.
- Same lens on DX, 35 x 1.5 = 52.5mm. so you'll get a 52.5mm view on a DX camera. the image is exactly the same if you took the 35mm image from FX, and crop the sides.

This crop factor is thus a downside for DX trying to go wide angle. but on the other size, it's an advantage for telephoto shots because you sort of have a built-in 1.5x teleconverter

This post has been edited by dvlzplayground: Mar 19 2017, 08:16 AM