Looking for a Reasonably Priced Landscape Lens

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Hi All,

I have a Nikon D5000 DSLR. I also have the two kit lens which are the 18-55mm and the 55-200mm.

I want to try taking some landscape pictures and find the 18-55mm ok but really want to get a lens more suited to the job.

Can anyone reccomend a reasonable/good lens to buy to get going.
I am not looking for the best and most expensive just a reasonable lens to use for an amateur.

I am on a tight budget as I am disabled and unable to work at the moment at the moment so looking around the £200-£250 mark at the most.

Any help would be good:thumbs:
John
 
I can't see why you need anything different really.
 
Samyang 14mm f2.8. Its super sharp but manual focus, this isn't such a big deal when shooting landscapes. Around £250 new.
 
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Any lens can be a landscape lens, but what are you specifically looking for as "more suited to the job" - something wider?
 
Hi All,

Thanks for the replys. I will have a look at what you have suggested.

I guess what I mean by "more suited to the job" is that it is very rare to see a landscape picture in a magazine or website where they say it was taken with a std kit zoom lens.

It is always wideangle such as 10-20mm or 18-35mm etc for example.
So I was seeking advice on these types and what would work well on my camera.

Thanks again for the replys
John
 
I'm guessing you're referring to photography magazines which always seem to have a fixation in their landscape guides for wide-angle shots. If you instead look at landscape shots in magazines that use photographs there's a much wider variety of landscape shots to take. Mainstream photography magazines are a terrible place to look for inspiration!

A couple of pounds spent on a copy of The Making Of Landscape Photographs by Charlie Waite (don't pay more than a couple of quid secondhand from Amazon) might be a worthwhile purchase. The book is from the film era, but the principles stay the same.

A lens isn't a bad lens just because it's a kit lens. Buying a non-kit lens won't make it a better lens for the job.

Pick three of the favourite landscape photographs you've taken, pick three you're not so happy with. Decide what you like about the first three, what you don't like about the second three.. and then ask yourself if any of the differences would be solved by changing lens?

If you don't know what you want to do, then absolutely any lens is just as unlikely to be the right one.
 
Hello Alastair,

Thanks for the quick reply.

You made some good points there that have made me think about it more.

I'll do as you suggest and check out different photos of mine and see what I
come up with.

I have nothing against kit lenses but you read both good and bad about them
and start to think all sorts.
It's good to have some advice that cuts through that and makes sense.

Thanks Alastair,
 
Also have a look at the tokinas... 11-16 or 12-24 I think are the two...

11-16 will be manual on your camera, not sure about the 12-24.


Sort of shots I've taken with it are in the link in the sig.


As has been pointed out, going wide isn't a necessity for landscape shots, you can stitch pictures, or select using your lenses an interesting bit of the landscape to focus on.

As long of the pic is fairly sharp, it shouldn't matter.
 
i am in the market for a Landscape lens and from people ive spoken to and articles ive read the Sigma 10-20 keeps popping up ive not heard anything bad about it Amazon are doing it for around £400
 
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