Comments on: The Perfect Landscape Lens http://www.ascenicworld.com/2009/11/13/a-landscape-lens/ Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Danny Diaz http://www.ascenicworld.com/2009/11/13/a-landscape-lens/comment-page-1/#comment-2091 Danny Diaz Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:15:13 +0000 http://www.ascenicworld.com/?p=1284#comment-2091 Are all those lenses at your disposal? If so, you are very lucky but I think a good photographer makes due with what they have in any situation and taking three prime lenses on a trip anywhere is a good number. I was just in Tokyo and I took a Takumar 28mm, 35mm, 55mm and a Jupiter-9 85mm with a K1D and a flash...just in case. All weekend I only used the 28mm during the day and the 55 f/1.8 at night. Are all those lenses at your disposal? If so, you are very lucky but I think a good photographer makes due with what they have in any situation and taking three prime lenses on a trip anywhere is a good number. I was just in Tokyo and I took a Takumar 28mm, 35mm, 55mm and a Jupiter-9 85mm with a K1D and a flash…just in case. All weekend I only used the 28mm during the day and the 55 f/1.8 at night.

]]> By: pablo http://www.ascenicworld.com/2009/11/13/a-landscape-lens/comment-page-1/#comment-2084 pablo Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:07:17 +0000 http://www.ascenicworld.com/?p=1284#comment-2084 Right when I got my camera I was madly crazy about the wide-angle lenses. So much that I went overboard and got myself the fisheye. It is great fun to play with the crazy distortions that it produces, but now I am not so amused anymore. I think I'd be better off with a "serious" wide-angle that would replace my kit + fisheye combo. I've seen that you have the fisheye yourself. What good use (situations) have you found for it? When does the light go on in your brain saying "ah! time to dust off the good old fisheye" ??? Right when I got my camera I was madly crazy about the wide-angle lenses. So much that I went overboard and got myself the fisheye.

It is great fun to play with the crazy distortions that it produces, but now I am not so amused anymore. I think I’d be better off with a “serious” wide-angle that would replace my kit + fisheye combo.

I’ve seen that you have the fisheye yourself. What good use (situations) have you found for it? When does the light go on in your brain saying “ah! time to dust off the good old fisheye” ???

]]> By: Erkki http://www.ascenicworld.com/2009/11/13/a-landscape-lens/comment-page-1/#comment-2083 Erkki Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:52:17 +0000 http://www.ascenicworld.com/?p=1284#comment-2083 What a great post once again, Keitha! I have to say that personally I've been seriously wanting a DA 15 mm ltd lately, mostly for landscapes. While the DA 21 mm is nice and compact, the focal length does doesn't seem to be short enough. Not that I'd have one of those yet, either, but one can naturally use the FL with the kit zoom. Have you considered the 15 mm or are zooms enough at that range? What a great post once again, Keitha! I have to say that personally I’ve been seriously wanting a DA 15 mm ltd lately, mostly for landscapes. While the DA 21 mm is nice and compact, the focal length does doesn’t seem to be short enough. Not that I’d have one of those yet, either, but one can naturally use the FL with the kit zoom.

Have you considered the 15 mm or are zooms enough at that range?

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