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Going to a long hike in mountains, which lens to choose?

Started Jun 20, 2021 | Questions thread
Birdmanfriday Regular Member • Posts: 441
Re: Going to a long hike in mountains, which lens to choose?
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I’d think carefully before choosing just the 14mm unless you are certain that there will be really interesting foregrounds. Everyone assumes wide angles are the right choice for landscape, but in really big spaces they don’t always work because the near/far effect they produce results in anything distant looking insignificant and tiny, and disproportionately small compared to everything else. You’ll need interesting foregrounds to prevent such scenes lacking an obvious point of interest.

I’d probably go with a more normal lens and stitch if I needed to shoot a bigger vista. I’ve even found moderate telephoto lenses useful in ‘big’ landscapes too.

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