Which lens for landscape?

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Nahabedian on October 15, 2008 at 12:06am

Hi there :)

If you browse my gallery, you'd see I love shooting landscapes too :D

And for landscapes, the best lens would be.. A WIDE angle lens :)

The one I have is the Sigma 10-20mm lens, It's not very expensive (less than 500 euros anyway), it's an excellent lens and almost never leaves my camera body :)

I'd advise you to go for it if you want a cheap but good one :)
A landscape at 10mm focal length looks amazing!

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Permalink Reply by aperturevince on October 15, 2008 at 1:56am

Hello,

Thanks for the r epley. I will read some reviews from this lens.

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Permalink Reply by Jorn on October 15, 2008 at 3:20am

Yeah! Sigma 10-20 would be very good. You get all the nice landscape with that one. You can also bye a 20-300mm Tamron there you can get closer the subject and also used like a wide angle.

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Permalink Reply by aperturevince on October 15, 2008 at 4:20am

Thanks for the repleys all!
Ok so my best choice for now is the sigma or the canon.

I can purchase a canon EF 22-55mm for 60 euro second hand. is this a valuable lens besides a good wide angle? I've done some research but most sites state that this is a el-cheapo lens ;-)
But for 60 euros? Always nice to be in the collection?

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Permalink Reply by aperturevince on October 15, 2008 at 6:48pm

Ok thanks!

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Permalink Reply by tressillian on October 15, 2008 at 7:43am

It's unlikely that lens will be cheaper in the UK - we're not called "Rip-off Britain" for nothing.

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Permalink Reply by aperturevince on October 15, 2008 at 6:48pm

hahaha that's a good one :)

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Permalink Reply by aperturevince on October 16, 2008 at 10:28pm

Hi everyone,

I was going to purchase the 24mm prime from Canon.........but......somelse noted that maybe the 17-40 mm L is more alround and worth considering.
This is 3 x the price of the prime but you can do more with it.

I looked at the prices here in Holland:

24mm prime = 268 euro
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4 USM L = 578 euro.

So the zoom is a bit above my budget and the prime is well below.....what about that 17-40? Can i shoot good landscapes with that also?

Vincenzo

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Nahabedian on October 16, 2008 at 11:59pm

If you really want to shoot landscapes, I'd really advice you the 10-20 or 10-22.
35mm is too much for a landscape.

Don't hesitate buying a good but a bit more expensive lens than a cheap lens that would return poor results.

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Permalink Reply by aperturevince on October 17, 2008 at 4:03am

yes you are right. I want a lens that can go a few years.
I did not know that the 24mm is actually 35mm on my camera!

Ok I will read some reviews again....and others say that 10-22 is really wide ...so mmuch reading to do!

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Permalink Reply by aperturevince on October 19, 2008 at 2:51am

Well after the advise from all of you..I made an order and the winner is the Tokina 12-24 mm.
After reading lot of reviews I chose this one.

Thanks everyone!

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Permalink Reply by aperturevince on October 19, 2008 at 8:34am

Ehhm I read some dutch forums and allot of people are very happy with it.
DD above stated the tokina so I went for review search. First I was goiing for the Sigma but the reviews state Tokina is a bit better. Canon is better, but 200 euro more!!

You would have not chosen the Tokina?

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