Canon landscape lenses

[Sydkid]

What are you guys using and how have you liked/disliked them? How long have you owned it? If I were to buy just 1 lens for landscape, which one would you recommend to me? Have you had success with teleconverters?

 

[AverageJoe]

Without a doubt: Canon 10-22mm EF wide angle, it gets everything. I've had it for about a year or so. Teleconverters I think only make a lens much more narrow in the scope of what is captured.

 

[deanimator]

There is no "law" that says you need a wide angle to do landscapes.
It depends what you want to do.

One of the greatest landscape photographers of the last 100 years, Ansel Adams, regularly used a normal and telephoto lenses.

 

[reg]

I was shooting a sunset the other day down at the pier and I actually went to 150mm (300mm 35equiv) to frame a restaurant with the sunset. Alas, this is an exception, but one to think of.

 

[Overread]

Reg makes a good point - sometimes a telephoto is what you need for a certain sight. Also whilst the 10-20mm (canon or sigma make - both have the same quality of image) is a very good wideangle lens and possibly the best one for a crop sensor - it loses out a bit on a fullframe camera since one cannot use its whole focal range (since the sensor ends up bigger than the projected image onto it)

 

[Big Mike]

Firstly, what camera are you using?

As mentioned, there is no 'best' lens for anything...it all depends what you like.

I use crop sensor cameras and my 10-22mm lens is by far my favorite for landscapes.

 

[icassell]

well ...

I love my Sigma 10-20 and my Tamron 17-50 .... depends on the landscape. I found my Sigma a bit too wide at the Grand Canyon because it was hard to maintain perspective, but MissMia's Grand Canyon shots with the 10-20 are gorgeous.

 

[Alex_B]

What is a landscape lens???

Just last week I shot landscapes at 17mm on full frame, but also at 300mm.

If you ask about wide angle lenses though, the 17-40 f/4 is a bargain, a very nice lens for the money. a bit soft off the centre at f/4, but for landscape photography there is always a tripod and so most of the time you will be at f/8 or f/22 anyway.

On a 1.6 crop, that 17-40 would be not wide enough for me though.