Next lens to get?

[Justin Meichner]

Hi Everyone!

I am new to the forum, I came here to get advice on the next lens I should get. I have a Sony A7RII and the sony fe 24-105mm f/4 g oss lens as well as the Rokinon 14mm lens. I mainly do beach photography/landscapes. Trying to step up my photo game by adding a different lens to my kit that I can use on the beach. Any recommendations? Not trying to destroy the bank.

 

[Derrel]

I think you need a good long focal length lens. A 70 -200, either f/2.8 or f/4, would be your best people/ portrait/beach lens.

 

[Justin Meichner]

I think you need a good long focal length lens. A 70 -200, either f/2.8 or f/4, would be your best people/ portrait/beach lens.

Hi Derrel!

Thank you for responding! Which one would you recommend?

 

[Justin Meichner]

I think you need a good long focal length lens. A 70 -200, either f/2.8 or f/4, would be your best people/ portrait/beach lens.

Hi Derrel!

Thank you for responding! Which one would you recommend?

Or do you think I should get a better wide angle lens for landscapes? Or should that be the next one after the one you mentioned above?

 

[Designer]

Or do you think I should get a better wide angle lens for landscapes? Or should that be the next one after the one you mentioned above?

Is there anything wrong with your current wide angle?

 

[Justin Meichner]

Or do you think I should get a better wide angle lens for landscapes? Or should that be the next one after the one you mentioned above?

Is there anything wrong with your current wide angle?

I don’t think the Rokinon 14m was made properly. Not all that clear and it has some distortion.

 

[Derrel]

70-200 f/4 is much less-expensive, and it's also smaller and lighter and easier to carry than an F / 2.8. I used to do photography on the beach and an 80-400 or a 100 to 400 is also good. I am not much of a fan of wide-angle lenses. The 70 -200 is a good landscape lens.

 

[Designer]

.. Rokinon 14mm lens. I mainly do beach photography/landscapes.

An odd thing about landscape photography: Most people assume that because they can see a fairly wide swath of landscape with their eyes that they should automatically grab a wide-angle lens for shooting landscapes. The problem with that approach is that the photographs never seem to look the same as what they saw when they were there.

Start using a longer lens for landscapes and watch your photographs take on a new dimension.

 

[Soocom1]

Agree with Designer.

I have multiple cameras but I set the majority of the digicams to a square format on landscape. (partially to avoid turning the camera).

I do this to force myself to LOOK at the image I want a bit more carefully. (do I really need a 3:2 or 16:1 WF image? )

I also (this is just me) shoot with manual lenses (like your Rokinon) but I use Med. Format lenses and older Minolta lenses to do the job.

I do this again to force myself to shape the image, and also because Med. Format lenses has a much larger 'sweet spot" that allows me to have MUCH less distortion on landscape images than a standard 35mm.

If you don't want to pursue that, the trick isn't so much wide angle as it is lens quality.
focus on DoF with landscape over a specific lens.