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Telephoto for landscapes - 40-150mm f2.8 or something else?

Started Dec 18, 2017 | Discussions thread
Gary from Seattle Veteran Member • Posts: 7,852
Re: Telephoto for landscapes - 40-150mm f2.8 or something else?

For landscape images - not wildlife - I would question whether you need to go to 150mm. I shoot landscape while hiking almost exclusively and it isn't even that common for me to go beyond 60mm let alone 150. 60mm still gives a nice compression effect in landscape or in landscape with human action images. My telephoto lens is the Panasonic 35-100 F2.8 which is a good match for landscape telephoto shooting. I also have the 75-300 but consider it too long for all but a handful of landscape images. The 35-100 is approximately of the same IQ as the 40-150.

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