Landscape lens

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I`ve just been looking through the landscape section and a question popped into my head ,what makes a good landscape lens if there`s such an animal, i currantly own a kit 18-55 lens , a tamron 70-300 and a 50mm 1.8 canon ,now i`m sure they are capable of taking the shots but does one give more to it that the rest or what would be a good purchase ?
 
You could try... Sigma 10-20 , Tokina 11-16, Canon 10-22, Samyang 14mm (manual lens, but shaper than all the mentioned, and cheaper, although you get mustache distortion) Canon 17-40 (not wide enough or my tastes)

I have the Tokina 11-16, very nice with 2.8 constant aperture.
 
Of the 3 lenses you have the 18 - 55 is probably the more versatile for landscapes - esp at the wide end.
Can never rule out any lens for landscapes, but if you only want to carry one the 18 - 55 will likely be the most usefull.
If you feel like spending some dosh I'd suggest that you look for a really wide angle zoom lens (about 12mm at the wide end. I think Tokina do one that gets a lot of praise).
 
I would say the tokina 12-24 f4. Really nice wide angle, affordable and by far the closest to the leading brands of the same or similar focal range. Nice and sharp and great build quality.
 
Landscape photography is generally less demanding on lenses, as fast focus isn't needed, you normally use a smaller aperture and a tripod is often used (and would probably improve landscape images more than replacing the kit lens).

Do you feel that your kit lens is holding you back for landscapes?
 
The best lens to use is the one which captures the image you want, in some cases it will be a WA (wide Angle) in some a telephoto (or even a telephoto zoom) and in others a 50mm, subject to image quality and post processing.
As has been said, fast apertures and/or focus ability is pretty much secondary. My wife has an 18-55 on her 50D and its quality is amazing. We also have 50mm f1.8 and 74/200 F4L, all of which have been used.
Having said that I have just bought a 15/30 to go on my 5D as its very wide on that body.
Matt
 
One that has very good resolving power since your going to working with distances a fair bit, good flare resistance since the sun will be involved a lot, and good distortion properties, since you don't want everything to look like it's in a snowglobe. Focal length doesn't mean anyhing as it will vary from shot to shot.
 
Craikeybaby said:
Landscape photography is generally less demanding on lenses, as fast focus isn't needed, you normally use a smaller aperture and a tripod is often used (and would probably improve landscape images more than replacing the kit lens).


Do you feel that your kit lens is holding you back for landscapes?
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To be honest it was a question to find out what would be better to use, when I'm out down by my local river I'm trying to get wild life shots with the zoom so I tend to keep that on my camera
 
ruffdog64 said:
To be honest it was a question to find out what would be better to use, when I'm out down by my local river I'm trying to get wild life shots with the zoom so I tend to keep that on my camera
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Well in that case use the telephoto lens & if you feel you're too zoomed in swap to a wider lens. It really depends on the image.
 
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