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What's the best focal length lens for landscape photography?


What's the best focal length lens for landscape photography?

You don't supply enough information to accurately answer this question.

Are you shooting with a 35mm, 2.25 x 2.25, 4x5, 8x10? Are you shooting a digital or film camera?

In a digital SLR I like the 10.5mm .
I still use an old Hasselblad SWC which I love for landscapes.

I seldom break out the view camera anymore. I'm just too tired or too lazy.

Fixed 14mm or 20mm is cool. Also you can try Ultra wide angle zoom like 10-22mm.

18mm to 35mm lenses

More great photographs have been taken with a "normal" focal length lens than all the other focal lengths combined. In 35mm format a "normal" focal length is 50mm to 55mm since the angle of view approximates that of the human eye.

Wide-angle lenses are also good choices.

depends on the landscape and the image to be made,

generally people go for wides like 20-35mm or super wides like 12-20mm, i like 50mm, some landscape shots could be great made with a 400mm

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This means different things to different people. Some would want broad sweeping views and others would want to stand on a mountain top and zoom in on the next closest mountain.

See: http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstei...

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