Landscape lens
May 16, 2018 09:45:23 #
May 16, 2018 11:25:56 #
rwww80a
Loc: Hampton, NH
Your zoom is wider view than the 35mm, I'd take it back for refund and buy at least something with a focal below the 18 mm you already have.
May 16, 2018 11:27:45 #
May 16, 2018 11:30:44 #
rwww80a
Loc: Hampton, NH
Tokina has 2 zooms that are true wide on a dx camera, One a fisheye giving you an even wider perspective for distant landscapes
May 16, 2018 11:51:43 #
RWR wrote:
You don’t cheat, you understand why any lens much wider than 50mm is about the worst imaginable for wide landscape views.
Wide angle the worst? I see a lot of stitching going on and sometimes it works great sometimes a wide angle is better they are so different, the wide angle lens when used properly is an excellent tool for foreground eliments and its distortion can show the illusion of movement in an image that I never see in stitched images besides not everyone wants to stitch everything, I feel a stitched image feels a bit more static, and more post work then some want to do. Wide angle lens are still wonderful!! Stitching is wonderful when needed.
May 16, 2018 11:59:39 #
Thanks folks. Again, You have provided very useful information. Have narrowed my choice down to the Nikon 10-20 or the equivalent sigma art lens. Somewhat hesitant about the sigma lens because I recently had a bad experience with them. Again, thanks to all.
May 16, 2018 12:00:58 #
Take your current lenses out and use them and see what you would want if you usually find yourself at 18mm on your zoom you will like wider, when I learned it was a nifty fifty prime until I could afford another lens and went immediately wider to 24mm.
May 16, 2018 12:10:20 #
karno wrote:
Wide angle the worst? I see a lot of stitching goi... (show quote)
For the record, that "more post work" is usually only a matter of a few minutes
May 16, 2018 12:30:02 #
Rich1939 wrote:
For the record, that "more post work" is usually only a matter of a few minutes
I agree with that statement for some applications, but if focus stacking it takes much longer, if it is windy can create problems, I guess my point is that stitching is not the answer to all Landscape it is a technique that works when required, still loving the wide angle look.
May 16, 2018 12:41:55 #
True wide angle is more artistic and creative IMO .......but stitching has a higher technical quality and has it's applications.
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May 16, 2018 13:10:39 #
imagemeister wrote:
True wide angle is more artistic and creative IMO .......but stitching has a higher technical quality and has it's applications.
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Fore sure, it's like if you have all of these tools and use them well, you can get different looks that exploits the beauty of a landscape in different ways. Wide angle, telephoto, 50mm,and stitching it is beneficial to know how to use them all to get the most out of photography.
May 16, 2018 13:49:55 #
walkurie
Loc: East Stroudsburg, PA
I took my 12-24mm f/4 Tokina to the Grand Canyon, Sedona , Monument Valley last May with my D5300 and was very happy with the results.
Gary
Gary
May 16, 2018 14:36:50 #
My recommendation is to use the lenses you are familiar with. If you need wider coverage than the lens provides, shoot a panorama series and merge the photos. Several post-processing packages (Lightroom and Photoshop, for example) have that ability, and there are separate ones, as well (I use Autostitch). Although a tripod can be good for shooting panoramas, I just do it hand-held and it works fine. Extreme wideangle lenses distort the image a lot at the edges--making a panorama avoids that.
May 16, 2018 14:55:22 #
I just came back from there. Do get a wide angle lens, but I also had a 55-250 lens, and there were plenty of reasons to get in close, too. The landscapes are vast and invite the widest angle you have, but I liked getting details, too. Around every bend is a photo. Enjoy the journey!
May 16, 2018 14:56:55 #
karno wrote:
I agree with that statement for some applications, but if focus stacking it takes much longer, if it is windy can create problems, I guess my point is that stitching is not the answer to all Landscape it is a technique that works when required, still loving the wide angle look.
Lord this will sound argumentative, not meant to be just informative. Stitching as compared to stacking is far less alignment critical and is usually pretty straight forward.
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