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Lens for Landscape and Night Photography

Started Mar 1, 2016 | Questions thread
oscarvdvelde Senior Member • Posts: 1,420
Re: Lens for Landscape and Night Photography

unefemme wrote:

Yes I do have Samyang 14mm f2.8, however my mistake that I did not further explain earlier. What I am searching for is a lens that enable me to shot the city with lightings.

Many thanks

Do you use a tripod or do you shoot hand-held? For tripod+city any lens would do as you will stop down anyway. In such case a lens should be judged by resistance to flare (matters more at night than during the day) and the quality of the star effect as you stop down.

For hand-held shooting a F1.4 lens can give you 4x shorter exposures or 4x more light, compared to f/2.8. Or you may like IS instead.

As you have the 14mm Samyang are you looking for something less wide?

Edit: do you mean lightning? Then you would need a less wide lens and not one with a bulbous front element which catches rain drops. The wider you would shoot the more upward tilted and the more chance of rain. Probably 28mm or 35mm/40mm are better for this use  (I used EF 28mm f/2.8 and 50mm f/1.8 for this, with lens hoods).

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Fujifilm X-T3 Fujifilm XF 27mm F2.8 Samyang 12mm F2.0 NCS CS Fujifilm XF 16mm F1.4 R WR Samyang 50mm F1.2 +4 more
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