ChrisR
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OK, this may sound daft. I've never really understood the point of wider lenses for landscapes, as it seems they merely make that impressive mountain into a small pimple in a flat scene (I exaggerate a bit). I've mostly shot landscapes at 50mm (on 35mm film cameras), and I'm quite liking my 85mm now, for picking out those parts of the landscape I'm "looking at".
But I'm beginning to think I've been missng the point. Perhaps these lenses aren't really "wide" so much as "deep". That is, folk use them to give greater depth of field in landscapes, so as to be able to include foreground interest for compositional reasons, and keep it in reasonable focus front to back. I've got quite a few shots taken at 50 mm, focused at infinity and including really blurred foreground, and it generally looks pretty carp! (Yes, I've read through the "common landscape mistakes" sticky, and make most of them!)
I have recently acquired 28mm and 35mm lenses for my Pentax MX, and I'm off to Scotland next week for a date with the midges. I know many folk don't really consider these lenses as wide, but they're what I've got (along with the 50, 85, and a 135 I'll probably leave behind as there's not room in the bag and I rarely choose it). So, and advice on using these lenses on a full frame camera for landscapes?
But I'm beginning to think I've been missng the point. Perhaps these lenses aren't really "wide" so much as "deep". That is, folk use them to give greater depth of field in landscapes, so as to be able to include foreground interest for compositional reasons, and keep it in reasonable focus front to back. I've got quite a few shots taken at 50 mm, focused at infinity and including really blurred foreground, and it generally looks pretty carp! (Yes, I've read through the "common landscape mistakes" sticky, and make most of them!)
I have recently acquired 28mm and 35mm lenses for my Pentax MX, and I'm off to Scotland next week for a date with the midges. I know many folk don't really consider these lenses as wide, but they're what I've got (along with the 50, 85, and a 135 I'll probably leave behind as there's not room in the bag and I rarely choose it). So, and advice on using these lenses on a full frame camera for landscapes?