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Wide angled lens for mountains?

Started Oct 8, 2015 | Discussions thread
bradevans
bradevans Senior Member • Posts: 1,029
Re: Wide angled lens for mountains?

Erick L wrote:

My hiking kit is a 9-18 and 14-150 so that's what I'd bring. One lens on the camera (around the neck), the other in a pocket.

This is just in the Rockies:

9mm for people in landscape

Two 9mm shots stitched

9mm in the kitchen

10mm in the bedroom

13mm in the living room

Note all of these (which are really nice) have a foreground element.  Thats part of what UWA is all about.  If you go fisheye you need to be really close (i.e. much closer than these)  your foreground element.

For a stitched panorama I'd want a longer lens to bring the details in.  The longer the lens the more pixels you going to end up with in the same final image (i.e. more shots but covering the same final angle of view)  More work but more details too...

horses for courses...

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