ray mraz Loc: High Ridge, Mo

Headed for Grand Canyon. I bought a Canyon 17mm- 40mm f/4L lens for the trip. Any feedback on this lens for that kind of landscape shooting.

MtnMan Loc: ID

Perfect lens for landscapes.

Pack a tripod, remote release, and CP filter.

If you get away from the bus routes you might see deer, elk, condors and eagles so a long lens can be useful.

ray mraz Loc: High Ridge, Mo

Thanks MtnMan! I will have my 150mm-600mm. Ill make sure I keep it close at hand.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

Just between the two of us (and the rest of UHH)... Why do you ask for a feedback on a lens AFTER purchasing it???

MtnMan Loc: ID

PS: Did Trump type your message?




Note appropriate typo.

ray mraz Loc: High Ridge, Mo

HA! HA! I have seen worse!!!!

tdekany Loc: Oregon

Use your imagination. Btw, UHH was a much more enjoyable place while you were gone. Why do you care when someone asks questions? Either help the OP, or keep your stupid posts to yourself. Are you not the one who couldn't tell that a real person was standing in a window? You should be the last person to question anyone.

mrpentaxk5ii

Don't fall off the edge, it's a long way down.

waykee7 Loc: Cortez, Colorado

Different people have different visions. I've spent a lot of time at Grand Canyon; in the 1980s it involved backpacking with a Pentax 6x7 and several lenses. So many people favor wide angle lenses for The Canyon, but in my way of seeing things, the only time I use a wide angle is in the narrow canyons, especially in the Red Wall, in which the wide angle enhances the 800 ft vertical cliffs. What I think really works are short telephotos, and my Nikkor 70-200 f2.8 E FL was just exquisite on a recent 4 day backpack in April. I also had a 24-70 and a Tamron 15-30, but I'm older now and my son-in-law did sherpa duty and carried two of my lenses. The error so many people make, IMHO opinion is to try to capture a vast expanse of The Canyon with a ultra wide angle lens and everything is reduced to nothingness. What I thinks really well is something in the 105-135 range, or even longer. The compression effect of telephotos helps with the immensity some, and when you start looking with a telephoto perspective, you can find numerous interesting compositions from one spot. And obviously, if you aren't out at the two golden hours, you are missing not just the photographic opportunity, but the real majesty and grandeur of the Grand Canyon. The summer thunderstorms during monsoon season can offer some wide angle opportunities with the towering thunderheads, but I always want that telephoto close at hand. . . those moments when there's a break in the clouds and you get those shafts of light seem just make for a midrange telephoto of that 70-200mm! It's worth remember that the Canyon has many moods that change with time of day, weather, season, and those moods seem different to me in my 60s than in my 20s or 30s or 40s or 50s (I've spent a couple hundred days in the canyon and on the rims, and dozens of backpacking trips and two river trips). There is a whole genre of fine writing about the Grand Canyon, beginning with the granddaddy book The Exploration of the Colorado and its Canyons by John Wesley Powell, one of the greatest adventure stories ever written. Grand Obsession, the biography of Harvey Butchart, and The Emerald Mile are the books that will do more than whet your appetite before the trip. . . they'll change your experience of the Canyon. Oh, and the superb essay "Down the River" by Edward Abbey belongs next to the other 3 books.
Wayne
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waykee7 Loc: Cortez, Colorado

Oh, the other thing to be aware of. . . heat waves can really mess with your focus with the long focal lengths. . .

ray mraz Loc: High Ridge, Mo

waykee7 Thanks for all the good info. I am considering all of it.

tdekany Loc: Oregon

I once went tocth north end of it like 6am and there was not a soul around. Talk about enjoying total quietness. You will have a lot of fun, and take a lot of your landscape shot at 12mm.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

My family went to the Canyon in 2002. One morning, our daughters {then 15 and 11} went out with me to see the sun rise over the canyon. I'm not sure any of us took any pictures, but it was a special time for each of us - even more so for me now that they are off each completely on her own.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

your lens would be ideal for Antelope Canyon which would be North of the Grand Canyon near Page Arizona, also located there is the Horse Shoe Curve on the Colorado River. Your lens would be ideal for both. Personally I liked Antelope Canyon much better than the Grand for photography. I went on the regular tour and got great shots, as did my wife with her cell phone.

fourg1b2006 Loc: Long Island New York

Sounds like your going to have a great trip. Enjoy it and bring back some wonderful images.