Africa Photo Safari Landscapes - Canon Lens Suggestion: I am going on an African Photo Safari in August. I want to take some landscapes while there. I shoot Canon 7D and am thinking of...

gwong1 Loc: Tampa, FL

I am going on an African Photo Safari in August. I want to take some landscapes while there. I shoot Canon 7D and am thinking of the Canon EF-S 10-22mm F3.5-4.5 USM (which I need to purchase). Any suggestions? Anyone with experience with this set-up care to comment? Thank You, Gary

Dave S Loc: SW Iowa

Gary.....a trip like this is on my Bucket List....could I talk you into sharing the details of the trips: who is it booked through, where you're going, $$$, just the essentials of the vital statistics! You can responds privately, if you'd prefer: Thanks, Dave. dgswanson@harlannet.com

gwong1 wrote:

I am going on an African Photo Safari in August. I want to take some landscapes while there. I shoot Canon 7D and am thinking of the Canon EF-S 10-22mm F3.5-4.5 USM (which I need to purchase). Any suggestions? Anyone with experience with this set-up care to comment? Thank You, Gary

Radioman Loc: Ontario Canada

gwong1 wrote:

I am going on an African Photo Safari in August. I want to take some landscapes while there. I shoot Canon 7D and am thinking of the Canon EF-S 10-22mm F3.5-4.5 USM (which I need to purchase). Any suggestions? Anyone with experience with this set-up care to comment? Thank You, Gary

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Hi, I have friends who have spent a lot of time working in Africa and have taken a lot of photographs. It can get hot, humid and dusty. take care where you change your lens. Take a lens cleaning kit (brush tissues etc.) and take a good quality pocket size 'point and shoot' for times when you either do not want, or have time, to get the DSLR out and set up.

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

gwong1 wrote:

I am going on an African Photo Safari in August. I want to take some landscapes while there. I shoot Canon 7D and am thinking of the Canon EF-S 10-22mm F3.5-4.5 USM (which I need to purchase). Any suggestions? Anyone with experience with this set-up care to comment? Thank You, Gary

Think about this...how about not going the short lens route and instead stitching shots together?

It's not hard, and it makes for some stunning images. You can use a "reasonably wide" lens such as a 35mm or so...even 50mm and you get a nice wide vista without the distortion.

You can even do it with a long lens. It gives a different feel altogether.

Barring that suggestion, I like the 10-22 a lot.

breck Loc: Derbyshire UK

Go to Namibia, best landscapes in the world, and great game, my long lens was a 70 to 200mm, 2.8 plenty long enough for Entosha, my wide angle 17-55mm 2.8on a nikon d300, I knew what I was going to see every day and changed lenses at the lodges I stayed at, I also took a rain cover to protect against dust no problems over two weeks and visited every environment from desert sand dunes to the skeleton coast and entosha game park.
Great country very safe easy self drive, very cost effective

gwong1 Loc: Tampa, FL

Thanks to everyone who responded. My trip will only be in Tanzania. Gary

gwong1 wrote:

I am going on an African Photo Safari in August. I want to take some landscapes while there. I shoot Canon 7D and am thinking of the Canon EF-S 10-22mm F3.5-4.5 USM (which I need to purchase). Any suggestions? Anyone with experience with this set-up care to comment? Thank You, Gary

Kojack

I did a safari in Tanzania in 12/11. I used a Canon 7D and three lenses (10-24mm; 20-70mm; and 70-200mm). For most landscapes I used the Tamron 10-24mm. But don't limit yourself to landscapes; the birds and other animals make for super shots!

CAM1017 Loc: Chiloquin, Oregon

gwong1 wrote:

I am going on an African Photo Safari in August. I want to take some landscapes while there. I shoot Canon 7D and am thinking of the Canon EF-S 10-22mm F3.5-4.5 USM (which I need to purchase). Any suggestions? Anyone with experience with this set-up care to comment? Thank You, Gary

That will work but you may also need the 18-200 or the 24-105 as the 10-22 maybe a little too much wide angle for dome situations. Have fun!

rogerl Loc: UK (Harrogate, North Yorkshire)

gwong1 wrote:

I am going on an African Photo Safari in August. I want to take some landscapes while there. I shoot Canon 7D and am thinking of the Canon EF-S 10-22mm F3.5-4.5 USM (which I need to purchase). Any suggestions? Anyone with experience with this set-up care to comment? Thank You, Gary

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imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

I would say try a Sony NEX and a good (Zeiss) 24mm lens and do sweep panos or HDR's in camera - that is what I have and use.