If you do not want to buy the best lens, then you might be better off saving your money. You can always use a tripod to capture panoramic shots to create wider angle images. Maybe this is your best path moving forward, a very high quality tripod and head.
That is my landscape rig I use to capture capture panoramic shots. I took the photo with a cell phone. It is a Benro Alloy Series 3 Combination tripod, Benro B3 head, and a Sunwayfoto DRH-90Ri leveling base. I use a 6D and the EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM a lot for landscape photography to create panoramic shots.
@Waddizzle wrote:If you do not want to buy the best lens, then you might be better off saving your money. You can always use a tripod to capture panoramic shots to create wider angle images. Maybe this is your best path moving forward, a very high quality tripod and head.
That is my landscape rig I use to capture capture panoramic shots. I took the photo with a cell phone. It is a Benro Alloy Series 3 Combination tripod, Benro B3 head, and a Sunwayfoto DRH-90Ri leveling base. I use a 6D and the EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM a lot for landscape photography to create panoramic shots.
Panoramic photography is a nice skill to have, especially if you have a lot of time on your hands. It's not, IMO, a substitute for a wide-angle lens.
@RobertTheFat wrote:
@Waddizzle wrote:If you do not want to buy the best lens, then you might be better off saving your money. You can always use a tripod to capture panoramic shots to create wider angle images. Maybe this is your best path moving forward, a very high quality tripod and head.
That is my landscape rig I use to capture capture panoramic shots. I took the photo with a cell phone. It is a Benro Alloy Series 3 Combination tripod, Benro B3 head, and a Sunwayfoto DRH-90Ri leveling base. I use a 6D and the EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM a lot for landscape photography to create panoramic shots.
Panoramic photography is a nice skill to have, especially if you have a lot of time on your hands. It's not, IMO, a substitute for a wide-angle lens.
But, this is more fun, though. I use the tripod collar to roll the camera to portrait orientation, so I can capture the pano images. One drawback of a wide angle lens is how it distorts distance. I can capture wide angle shots without that type of distortion.
I have also used my EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM Macro the same way, because of its' tripod collar. No more need for an L-Bracket. No L-Bracket means less worry about getting the center of the sensor aligned through the vertical axis of rotation, when I switch from landscape to portrait. You have those markings in landscape mode to align the sensor, but not portrait.
[EDIT]. Time consuming? Maybe not as much as you might think. The real trick to capturing a good set of pano shots is to level the base of the tripod head. Simply leveling the camera on the head will invariably result in the camera titling as your rotate the rig.
This tripod has interchangeable plates, so I can switch out [heads] just as fast as you can change a lens. This bracket on the head stays aligned with the base. I never need to turn the knob level the camera. I use the leveling base to level the tripod head, and that takes a few seconds.
As far [as] processing goes, that goes fairly quickly, too. Most of my pano shots use 3-6 shots, so the result looks like a regular 3:2 aspect ratio, or a 16:9 aspect ratio. Adobe LR totally automates the process, Select a few shots, and click GO.
