Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: aboudd on May 26, 2017, 06:52:24 am
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My main camera for my upcoming trip to Iceland is a medium format. I'm thinking of taking the 35MM (28MM equivalent) and the 70MM (roughly 50MM equivalent) for landscape shooting, supplementing it with either the 17MM TS-E or the 11-24MM on the Canon as well. I'm taking the Canon with the 40mm pancake for street shooting as well - and of course, it could be a backup if needed.
Any thoughts?
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When I went to Iceland in 2013 I only had APS-C cameras with me.
About 25% were shot with my 10-18 mm.
Here's a few examples at 10mm
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/201307/i-GmghqZ5/0/c6215715/O/PEG_NEX5_1_06007_20130728.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201307/i-GmghqZ5/A)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/201307/i-bj7nXtz/0/736b6e67/O/PEG_Nex6_1_01984_20130730.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201307/i-bj7nXtz/A)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/201307/i-pZFrNRW/0/b206689e/O/PEG_Nex6_1_01963_20130730.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201307/i-pZFrNRW/A)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/201308/i-d5RgQHF/0/d4edbb7a/O/PEG_NEX5_1_06309_20130802.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201308/i-d5RgQHF/A)
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Thank you that is very helpful.
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yes
some of the panos i tried didn't work because one of the images was primarily water or too misty
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You'll find scenery which responds well to 10-22 and scenery which responds well to a longer lens. I spent an awful lot of my time there with my 70-200 mounted, and I used my 16-35 very little.
Jeremy
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I think everything is useful. So far on the westfjords I would have said 80% is shot with a 120mm on the GFX or 80on the phase.
So around 50-90 on 35mm.
However, I expect that to change during my next three weeks.
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I'll preface this by saying there's nothing I like better than an outstanding wide landscape where the viewer can w"walk into" the photo.
On my latest trip to Iceland, fully 30% of my "keepers" were made with a focal length of 35mm or less, with ⅓ of those (10% of keepers) at 24mm. This is low for me when amongst grandeur like Iceland offers. Even though I had lens coverage down to 18mm, I rarely used it, but found the 24-35mm length much more useful.
In my trip previous to that, the proportion of "keepers" at 35mm or less was about 37%, with just less than 20% at 24mm. And on that trip, the widest I had was 24mm.
Yes, there's a place for wider than 24mm, and some truly spectacular shots are possible, but you're also looking at diminishing returns.
The toughest part with shooting wide or ultra wide is finding a view that does not include other tourists and photographers who want to be everywhere, even during the less-touristy golden hours. They are everywhere, well off the marked trails, sitting on cliff edges, etc., even when it is clearly marked/signed to stay in the trails! Cloning/healing are useful tools!