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

Started Dec 18, 2017 | Discussions thread
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Re: Telephoto for landscapes - 40-150mm f2.8 or something else?

If you compose something close you don't need long. If you go someplace like the Palouse where you can forever, I find 150mm - even 300mm very useful. (300-600).

I need 420mm to photograph the Olympic Mountains beyond Lake Washington from my house in Kirkland without cropping. I use it on the Puget Sound. Depends on the kind of landscape you are photographing, where it is, how you want to compose it.

More landscapes are photographed with a long telephoto than you think.

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