wide angle lens for landscape

[jcuknz]

One of the key aspects of photography is selection of the important and relevant which to me mitigates against the use of the WA lens though I do admit I now find 28mm AoV handy on occasions where with my 35mm AoV I would have had to step back , over a steep bank into heavy bush on the occasion which comes to mind

[John Morton]

wow! this is something different, i think the special functionality cause the lens so expensive,, im wondering if i could get one, in my dream thanks for the brief info John

Hi, Justine;

Yes that lens is, to quote out of context Gael Garcia Bernal (in the Jim Jarmusch film "The Limits Of Control"), "Crazy Beautiful."

As Manfred noted, a lens like that is an 'investment' and, oddly enough, I think it is now worth more than the camera I bought it to use upon (a Nikon D700) - go figure :-O

I did need to put a lot of thought toward buying that lens; and I am VERY happy that I did decide to purchase it. Foe me, as someone who loves to do landscape photography, it is undeniably the best lens I have ever owned.

But, you know, it isn't like I started to do landscape photography after buying that lens. Here are a few images I have captured over the years using 35mm film and, for these as well as for the digital landscapes I now do, the best piece of equipment after the camera and the lens is definitely the tripod (and a remote release of some sort).



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I don't think that any of these were taken using a wide angle lens.

[pnodrog]

Your question made me curios as I take a lot of landscapes and I have a reasonable range of lenses. Much to my surprise none of the photographs that I have posted my CiC album https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...p?albumid=2468 have been taken at an angle wider than 24mm. I have a 24-120mm lens which was my favourite lens for many years and even now it is not often I need to swap it for the wider lens. There is one photograph in the album looking over a lake in a snow scene that was taken on a film camera with the lens at 24mm equating to about 16mm for cropped digital. The bulk of the photographs were taken on a D200 using focal lengths between 30-70mm.

[justine]

Your question made me curios as I take a lot of landscapes and I have a reasonable range of lenses. Much to my surprise none of the photographs that I have posted my CiC album have been taken at an angle wider than 24mm...

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hmnnn... as other suggested earlier it could not be a good idea if i choice an uwa lens to shoot landscaped, as a beginner and a lack of knowledge in photography i understand it by now. i appologised i did not mention it in the first place i did written only in two sentences BTW you have an amazing landscape in new zealand thanks

[justine]

Hi, Justine;

Yes that lens is, to quote out of context Gael Garcia Bernal (in the Jim Jarmusch film "The Limits Of Control"), "Crazy Beautiful."

As Manfred noted, a lens like that is an 'investment' and, oddly enough, I think it is now worth more than the camera I bought it to use upon (a Nikon D700) - go figure :-O

I did need to put a lot of thought toward buying that lens; and I am VERY happy that I did decide to purchase it. Foe me, as someone who loves to do landscape photography, it is undeniably the best lens I have ever owned.

But, you know, it isn't like I started to do landscape photography after buying that lens. Here are a few images I have captured over the years using 35mm film and, for these as well as for the digital landscapes I now do, the best piece of equipment after the camera and the lens is definitely the tripod (and a remote release of some sort).

another masterpiece here John!. i love the classic effect of a film they are simply amazing, i like the ones in the 3rd and the fifth shots with the dog, perhaps he was waiting for you

[Colin Southern]

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hmnnn... as other suggested earlier it could not be a good idea if i choice an uwa lens to shoot landscaped, as a beginner and a lack of knowledge in photography i understand it by now. i appologised i did not mention it in the first place i did written only in two sentences BTW you have an amazing landscape in new zealand thanks

Here's a few more from New Zealand

http://www.pbase.com/cjsouthern/all_images

[John Morton]

another masterpiece here John!. i love the classic effect of a film they are simply amazing, i like the ones in the 3rd and the fifth shots with the dog, perhaps he was waiting for you

Yes Justine, I believe he was waiting for me. There are at least three dogs in that photo, and they are all working sled dogs in a small First Nations community in Canada's Northwest Territories.

I never go near sled dogs, not after having been told a story by someone who was breaking trail through the snow in front of his sled, and felt a sharp pain in his leg from behind. The lead sled dog had hamstrung him with its teeth; and the other dogs were, in his words, "Just standing there, looking at me and waiting for me to fall so that they could all close in on me and rip me to pieces..."

Most of those sled dogs have way too much wolf in them!