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No Good Crossover Lens So What Is a Good L Series Lens For Landscape?

Far-Out-Dude
Rising Star
Rising Star

Since it does not sound like there will be a good cross over lens for both Landscape and Astro what would be a good RF L series Landscape Lens for what I am shooting pictures off. I will be using my R5 Mark ii I will let you know I love shooting waterfalls and snow if that helps.335329026_662738545619786_445220108817035145_n.jpg239536111_10219612745891692_98957158667026073_n.jpg239632260_10219606550456810_4235821791636673612_n.jpg239755730_10219605742596614_7970003195348324904_n.jpg239779227_10219608760912070_1676421011258264322_n.jpg240665999_10219686205168128_2500966652617913880_n.jpg245350379_10219839969052129_2443026465453009060_n.jpg250917463_10219954657159260_8110162286352972475_n.jpg242085801_10219729449809217_5528674884246035042_n.jpg271151607_10220240014413013_1264789168142816566_n.jpg

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shadowsports
Legend
Legend

These are beautiful ❤️ 

~Rick
Bay Area - CA


~R5 C (1.0.7.1) ~RF Trinity, ~RF 100 Macro, ~RF 100~400, ~RF 100~500, ~RF 200-800 +RF 1.4x TC, BG-R10, 430EX III-RT ~DxO PhotoLab Elite ~DaVinci Resolve ~ImageClass MF644Cdw/MF656Cdw ~Pixel 8 ~CarePaks Are Worth It

Thank you. Any suggestions for a L series RF lens? Oh darn, forgot to put my camera in there again. I will edit it it not. R5 Mark ii

AtticusLake
Mentor
Mentor

A wide lens is of course the stereotypical thing for Landscape, but Landscape is a very broad thing in practice; I really don't think there is one lens that is "best".  I have been shooting a lot of landscape video, and when I go out, my bag has:

  • RF 15-35 f/2.8
  • RF 24-70 f/2.8
  • RF 70-200 f/4

I use all those lenses; the 70-200 less so, but it certainly get used.

Do you follow any landscape photographers online?  I follow Nigel Danson and Henry Turner.  It seems like they give strong recommends to wide-range zoom lenses, like 24-200.

You say you do video with them, how do they do for photography? I forget these can do video now, I have had cameras that can do video for at least 10 years now, maybe 15 and I am lucky if I have 4 hours total video. No insulting, kinda laughing at myself.

I do video, not photography (or very little), so I don't know.  But landscape is landscape... pretty much.  Video has some different considerations to stills, but I would not expect to be using different lenses.

If you want to see what I'm doing, you can check it out here: https://moonblink.info/MudLake/beauty

And yeah, if you're not doing video, it's easy to overlook.  Personally I often forget that I could be taking great stills with the R5C... so I hear you!  But the R5 is superb for video, and I would guess the mk II is at least as good.  I actually reviewed the R5 from a video standopoint, if you're interested... https://moonblink.info/MudLake/gear#R5

 

Very nice videos, I like the music you choose. By the way, I realized I never answered you above, no, at this time there are none that I follow. I would like to find some using modern equipment and taking B&W as I really do enjoy B&W I have the others you suggest up and will check them out. In retrospect I should have been just a little to the left for the picture.
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Waddizzle
Legend
Legend

My favorite lenses for landscape photography are the 24-70mm and 70-200mm.  

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Thank you much, I will look at images from them at flickr and see if they are what I like. Sometimes I use my 100-400 for some landscape if I want to get in on an object. I love these two pictures, but I was still quite new and it shows but it shows the use of the Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS II USM on the eos M50 for landscape.334797386_245119801199678_5638329884681539527_n.jpg

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ebiggs1
Legend
Legend

It does depend on what you are shooting.  A 600mm lens is a UWA landscape lens if you are shooting the Moon. 
A 16mm may not be wide enough if you can’t step back a few feet or a mile.

 

EB
EOS 1DX and 1D Mk IV and less lenses then before!
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