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

[Far-Out-Dude]

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.

[shadowsports]

These are beautiful ❤️ 

[Far-Out-Dude]

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]

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.

[Waddizzle]

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

[ebiggs1]

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.

[Far-Out-Dude]

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.

[Far-Out-Dude]

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.

[Far-Out-Dude]

UWA landscape? I am not familiar with that, would you be kind enough to explain please?

[shadowsports]

Ernie is referring to a UWA (typically something 10-16mm) that captures the vastness of a scene.  20mm to about 35mm is considered WA.  

I think Atticuslake and Waddizzle probably nailed the most popular options.  15-35, 24-70 and 70-200.  You can go with the f4 variants if you want to save some cash.  

It really depends on the perspective you want to capture and convey

15-35 110° at 30' to 63°

24-70 84° to 34°

70-200 34° to 12°

Obviously a zoom gives you a little more flexibility so you don't need to use your feet as much.  There is only so far you can go.  Like the others, I use my 70-200 the least.  Mostly due to my taking more video these days.