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

Started Jun 20, 2021 | Questions thread
a_c_skinner Forum Pro • Posts: 13,047
Re: Polarization filter for stitching
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One with and one without is always good advice for polarising filters, perhaps all filters!

The angle of view at which polarisers will produce objectionable unevenness of sky is about 30mm full frame 20mm APS-C.  I never saw it (film days) with my 35mm lens and it was pretty much invariable with my 24mm.  In those days 35mm was my almost invariable lens for general scenery.

I'd take the 23mm as the sole lens (actually I'd take my 27mm) unless you are close to huge subjects or want to shoot close in to foreground subjects with scenery in the background.  You'll already know if that is something you do.

Practice panoramas.  MS ICE is very good at stitching if you run a Windows machine.  Overlap by 30% or a bit less and shoot in portrait.

Don't worry about tripods or panoramic heads unless you want objects close to you in the foreground, hand held works well with modern software even so.

Practice rotating the camera around a point within the lens, truthfully it doesn't matter where for distant or middle distant objects.

(Oh and PS the no parallax point is not either of the nodal points, it is the entrance pupil, but you don't need to worry about it or know where it is unless you've a tripod and pano head for shooting with foreground detail.)

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