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Any landscape lens you guys would recommand?
I have a 1000D crop sensor and been told a canon 10-22 EFS is't bad,

Also does any one know does the Cokin z pro filters ok with croped sensors wide lens?

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Sam
 
The Tokina 11-16mm seems to get the most thumbs up. 99.99999999% of the time.

My finger has been hovering over the buy button for weeks.
 
mattyg said:
My finger has been hovering over the buy button for weeks.
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After watching a few thread on here, I finally hit the buy button yesterday. Can't wait for it to arrive :D
 
you dont ''need'' a UWA for landscapes

have a read................''here''................Ken Rockwell (c)

there's a member here who does superb Scottish Landscapes ..cannot remember his name [old age.:lol:] be interesting to check out the focal lengths on exif
 
quick search ..for Rannoch

i love this .. by Dinners ... no exif data though
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mattyg said:
The Tokina 11-16mm seems to get the most thumbs up. 99.99999999% of the time.

My finger has been hovering over the buy button for weeks.
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Do you currently have a landscape lens?


AlfyB said:
After watching a few thread on here, I finally hit the buy button yesterday. Can't wait for it to arrive :D
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:D aways fun waiting for the post!


Jackwow said:
The EF-S 10-22 is indeed an excellent lens. :thumbs:
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Have you got one? if so able to share some photos ?


Yardbent said:
you dont ''need'' a UWA for landscapes

have a read................''here''................Ken Rockwell (c)

there's a member here who does superb Scottish Landscapes ..cannot remember his name [old age.:lol:] be interesting to check out the focal lengths on exif
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Im after a landscape lens to improve my landscape shots and find the kit lens is't wide enough, But that link is a good read!



Any one else wish to share there thoughts?
 
ANY lens is a landscape lens!

I've taken Landscapes with my 10-22mm, 50mm, 35mm, 85mm, 18-135mm and 70-200mm.

The 10-22 requires a lot of thinking to get effective landscape shots and you need a lot of foreground interest.

You should be able to get decent ones from your kit lens at tight apertures.
 
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I use the excellent Sigma 10-20 f3.5 and would recommend, but you don't need a super wide lens for landscapes TBH.
 
wildsam90 said:
Im after a landscape lens to improve my landscape shots and find the kit lens is't wide enough, But that link is a good read!



Any one else wish to share there thoughts?
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Simply going wider isn't going to improve your shots unless you know what you're doing.
The beauty of UWA's is (like Mr. Ken talk about, this is one of the very few occasions where I think he is actually talking sense) that they let you include foreground interest with sweeping backgrounds, which is a superb effect when you do it properly.
If you just try to fit more landscape in, you're shots won't really improve, you'll just have more bits either side.
 
odd jim said:
ANY lens is a landscape lens!

I've taken Landscapes with my 10-22mm, 50mm, 35mm, 85mm, 18-135mm and 70-200mm.

The 10-22 requires a lot of thinking to get effective landscape shots and you need a lot of foreground interest.

You should be able to get decent ones from your kit lens at tight apertures.
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I think most people got my drift lol.
And i understand what comes with one as my friend uses one but hes on full frame.
Kit lens is fine but theres a few times when its too tight and im not getting the shot i want,

squishy said:
Simply going wider isn't going to improve your shots unless you know what you're doing.
The beauty of UWA's is (like Mr. Ken talk about, this is one of the very few occasions where I think he is actually talking sense) that they let you include foreground interest with sweeping backgrounds, which is a superb effect when you do it properly.
If you just try to fit more landscape in, you're shots won't really improve, you'll just have more bits either side.
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Yes and your 100% right, And as normal its another learning curve but i feel ready for it even tho ill fail for awhile :)

Lez325 said:
I agree - I have the very same lens :thumbs:

Les ;)
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The Greek said:
I use the excellent Sigma 10-20 f3.5 and would recommend, but you don't need a super wide lens for landscapes TBH.
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You guys have any photos i could see? :)
 
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manualfocus-g said:
Whilst ultra wide lenses have their uses, I usually find something a little longer is more effective when you want to see detail (that hut in a field for example). Saying that, having an uwa was very useful in New York :)
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Well in fact the reason im pushing to buy a wide lens is that we're planning to spend a long weekend in london :)

And hopfully ill be looking at getting somthing to carry on from it like a canon 24-105
 
Here's one from Sunday using the Sigma 10-20mm f3.5, went for a walk and just snapped away. Its a little soft, but as i said it was just quick snap but it will give you an idea.

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Oops ebay's dangerous. just got a Nikon 12-24 f4 for just over £400. At least I should break even if I dont get on with it
 
Yardbent said:
quick search ..for Rannoch

i love this .. by Dinners ... no exif data though
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''link''
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I do sometimes use wider - 10mm on a 1.6 crop or 17mm on 1.3 crop or full frame for example but that particular image on the above link was just the 18mm end of a simple 18-55 kit lens on a Nikon D50.
 
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I have the siggy 10-20, But 90% time use the nikkor 17-55.
As said any lens is usefull but if using a 10-20 you have to watch that foreground well.....First two images taken at 10mm with the 10-20.
Third image taken at 32mm on the 17-55 2.8

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PS
all the shots taken within 10feet of each other.
 
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Yardbent said:
you dont ''need'' a UWA for landscapes

have a read................''here''................Ken Rockwell (c)

there's a member here who does superb Scottish Landscapes ..cannot remember his name [old age.:lol:] be interesting to check out the focal lengths on exif
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Good article John ,with very good advice.
If you ware specs like I do You never really get a look at the very edges without pressing you're face hard into the eye cup ,so if using a tripod I have a look in live view for a better idea before snaping.......
 
mattyg said:
The Tokina 11-16mm seems to get the most thumbs up. 99.99999999% of the time.

My finger has been hovering over the buy button for weeks.
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I used to have the 11-16 2.8, but have just bought a 10-22 here on TP so will be interesting to see how they compare!!!

Will let you guys know.
 
I've been using the Sigma 10-20mm for a couple of years now and I couldn't begin to tell you just how impressed I am with it.
 
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