Best lens for landscape photography?

[icassell]

I love my 10-20. Here are a couple of random images.

 

[Mike_E]

Try starting with a Nikon 18-70mm AF-S. It'll work with your camera and goes from pretty wide (27mm EFL) ((effective focal length)) to 105mm EFL. It has a great image quality, any distortion is easily taken care of in post and since Nikon stopped making them (I don't know why) you'd have buy one used for around $250. The upside of buying one used is that if you decide to go ultra wide you can get your money back as they stay in fairly constant demand.

Since the upper range is 105mmEFL it is also a great walk around lens.

It's not fast at f/3.5-4.5 (but not slow either) but who takes landscapes after dark without a tripod anyway.

Good luck.

 

[MasonBW]

I think I'm going to try a sigma, either 10-20 or 12-24 but thanks for the info

 

[jake337]

NIKON/SIGMA 14MM af f3.5 or 14mm f2.8 af possibly. not zooms but they'll put you around 21mm

 

[MasonBW]

so wheres the best place/cheapest place to order a sigma 10-20 4-5.6 hsm?

 

[timethief]

I got the sigma 10-20 f3.5
I was very excited to get it over a year ago. unfortunately it was a bad copy. The focus was always off from day 1. Although they serviced it later i always had issues with it. It had sharpness issues. i was never satisfied with it. By some miracle i got them to replace it after around 1 year (not easy at all where i am living).
This second one seems to be working fine, but i cant say i love this lens maybe cause i was hugely dissapointed at start.

 

[icassell]

I got the sigma 10-20 f3.5
I was very excited to get it over a year ago. unfortunately it was a bad copy. The focus was always off from day 1. Although they serviced it later i always had issues with it. It had sharpness issues. i was never satisfied with it. By some miracle i got them to replace it after around 1 year (not easy at all where i am living).
This second one seems to be working fine, but i cant say i love this lens maybe cause i was hugely dissapointed at start.

That's too bad. I don't have any experience with the f/3.5 version.

 

[MasonBW]

I got the sigma 10-20 f3.5
I was very excited to get it over a year ago. unfortunately it was a bad copy. The focus was always off from day 1. Although they serviced it later i always had issues with it. It had sharpness issues. i was never satisfied with it. By some miracle i got them to replace it after around 1 year (not easy at all where i am living).
This second one seems to be working fine, but i cant say i love this lens maybe cause i was hugely dissapointed at start.

That's too bad. I don't have any experience with the f/3.5 version.

so you like your 4-5.6 version, and whered you buy yours?

 

[icassell]

I love my 4-5.6. It is sharp with nice color rendition and I find it a wonderful landscape lens. It also, with care, can make some nice unusual portraits.

I bought it where I buy most of my new glass -- Amazon.com. I find their prices to usually be better than the online photography places and their service to be very good. When you get into lens prices, shipping is free.

Canon 30D
Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 @ 10mm

1/500sec f/7.1 ISO 125

 

[MasonBW]

alright! thanks for the info, anyone use a nikkor 10-24?

 

[RandyA]

A friend of mine has a Tamron 10-24, loves it! Check B&H for best price.

 

[ironsidephoto]

Agreed--check out the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8. It's about $600. I've had that for a while and it makes some great landscape shots.

Things to be careful with on ultra-wide lenses:

1)Don't shoot people up close, especially at the widest focal length. Distortion does weird things.
2)Be careful with vignetting with filters at the widest focal length, and beware of the weird things that polarizers do to skies at the widest length as well.

 

[MasonBW]

tokinas wont work my nikon D3000 so I'm kinda stuck..

 

[Infidel]

tokinas wont work my nikon D3000 so I'm kinda stuck..

Of course it works, you just need to focus manually, which incidentally is not very difficult at short focal lengths.