What's you most used telephoto lens for landscapes?

[thegman]

The last time I did a serious amount of landscape, my favourite lens was the same as Chris, 150mm Sonnar on a Hasselblad. I thought I'd use my 50mm Distagon more, but I really preferred the longer reach.

I did a small amount of cityscape last weekend with my Rolleiflex, and missed having a longer lens.

 

[Gareth Rees]

50mm f2 planar and 135mmf4 sonnar on Contarex

 

[taemo]

EF 100-400L only because it's my only tele lens other than the 135L and it does what it does, so cant complain

 

[waynec]

While I live in Fla, most of my serious landscape work is out in Phoenix/AZ, another home town. Out there I've shot the now long gone Canon 200mm FD mushroom, and a Nikon 70-210 but the extremes are tough on that one. If there was a good 100-300mm telephoto zoom lens around I think I'd pick one up as I need a good telephoto for the mountains. Thing is I want to wet print so sharp and reasonably priced are requirements. Nikon AIS and FD are my most used film bodies.

 

[Nikon Bob]

On a DSLR I use a zoom in the 70-200/300 range. If I go light a prime in the 85 -105 rang with the preference going to the 85.

Bob

 

[f16sunshine]

Most used is the one that travels most often with me for 5Dii= zuiko f2/100mm.
Stopped down it is very nice for landscapes. It's versatile for Portraits and low light as well.
Click image for 6k version This lens has remarkable resolving power.

 

[drew.saunders]

I generally shoot normal or wide for landscapes, but when shooting longer lenses, on the M6, it's the 90/2.8 Tele-Elmarit "fat." I know the "skinny" version that replaced it in the early '70's is supposed to be much better, but I've never been disappointed with this lens.

For 4x5 lately it's been my 250/4.7 Fujinar. It's a single-coated Tessar design, it's a f/4.5 design but the Copal 3S shutter squeezes it down to f/4.7, but if I remember to put on the hood if there's a chance of flare, it's a very nice, very sharp lens. I have a much more modern 250/6.3 (also a Fuji) that's theoretically sharper, but have been using the 250/4.7 as my general purpose long-ish lens since I bought it. Comparing 24x36mm to 96x120mm isn't clear cut because of the big difference between 2:3 and 4:5 images, but a 250 is in the neighborhood of a 70-75mm in "35mm equivalent."

 

[Nokton48]

I have a 790mm F11 Rodenstock Apo-Ronar that I use on my 8x10" Sinar Norma.

It requires two tripods, and looks like a freight train, when all put together. 😱

 

[Timestep]

105mm 2.5 Nikkor ( of either generation ) on Rangefinder or SLR.
It;s angle is almost exactly what one pays attention to, in the overall visual field.

 

[f16sunshine]

I have a 790mm F11 Rodenstock Apo-Ronar that I use on my 8x10" Sinar Norma.

It requires two tripods, and looks like a freight train, when all put together. 😱

So what's that like a FOV of a 90mm equivalent for 35mm 😀

 

[Nokton48]

So what's that like a FOV of a 90mm equivalent for 35mm 😀

Yep. Roughly a bit longer than 2X.

 

[oftheherd]

I use what will give me the shot I want, but that will normally be normal or wide for landscapes. If I need to go long, it will be whatever I have that fits the bill. In zooms, I go up to 150mm. In primes, I have 135mm, 200mm macro, and 300mm. Oh, I also have an old preset 400mm lens that is surprisingly sharp as I recall, but I haven't used that lens in a lot of years. That's all in SLR.

In RF, I still prefer normal or wide, but have 150 and 250 in MF RF, 300mm (convertable) in LF, and 135 in 35mm RF.

 

[waynec]

Anyone have some info on good M42 SM lenses?

 

[tsiklonaut]

Most of my landscape shots are with 6x7 Pentax SMC 200mm f4 (it's an equivalent of around 100mm-ish in focal length and f2-ish in DoF wise in 35mm format).

It's surprisingly lightweight lens (around 800 grams if I remember correctly - i.e. while the normal lens is 600g) for it's focal lenght and takes mighty sharp infinity-focus shots, the big plus it's also superb for portraits (great DoF) so I prefer it for my travels.

My actual favourite long lens is the Takumar 400mm f4, but it's just too much weight and bulk (it needs a damn good tripod!) to carry so ironically I don't have that many shots with it as I'd like to. Wish I could have a personal assistant/porter 🙂

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But then again I use ultrawide for the landscape shots alot too:



Sublime by tsiklonaut, on Flickr


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Happy shooting,
Margus

 

[Paul Jenkin]

For MF: Hasselblad (Zeiss) 150mm / f4 on 500c/m
For 35mm: Nikkor AI 105mm/f2.5 on F3HP

 

[Snowbuzz]

But then again I use ultrawide for the landscape shots alot too:



Sublime by tsiklonaut, on Flickr


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Happy shooting,
Margus

Holy Gaaaaawwd! Uh huh, appropriately named picture. Great!
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