Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: Jeff74400 on June 15, 2008, 09:25:32 am
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I have just ordered a P45 and a Mamiya 645AFDII and I am looking for some good lenses to fit this body for landscape photography.
I am thinking about the 28mm (but I have tested one and find a lot of ac and corners a little bit soft), a 45mm, a 80mm (or the new 45-90 zoom) a 210mm and the 300mm.
Some advises are welcome...
Thank's in advance
Best regad's
Jeff
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If you want a good setup just for landscape, you can't do better than a view camera like an Alpa or Cambo with a Rodenstock or Schneider lens. This combination with your back would be superb but would be less suitable for moving subjects, so the question is do you want an all-purpose solution or a landscape only solution?
There was another thread like this just a few weeks ago. Try searching for it.
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Jeff,
You have already found out the issues the 28mm with have on a P45 back, softness in the corners. Enough that you will most likely have to do some cropping on most work. I have tried 2 now, and both had problems, but in different locations on the image.
The 35mm can do good work, it will not turn in quite as sharp an image as the 45mm or 55mm, but it should give you good CA free images. You may also need to try a few of them before you get one that is good corner to corner.
The 45-90 at a list around 5K, is one I will wait on for a while especially based on the results from the Mamiya 28mm also a 5K.
You also have the Cambo and Horseman solutions. Cambo just came out with a new body.
Paul C
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I would recommend stitiching with 150mm AF lens. CA can be completely corrected in RAW conversion. There is some vignetting, also easy correctable. Small lens weight and AF operation are very convenient in the field.
I posted this in another thread a few days ago:
Here is 32325x8829 image from 22 captures using ZD camera + 150mm AF lens + B&W polarizer. Shot with ZD mounted on a spherical bracket, mirrror lockup for each shot. Buffer wasn't an issue, shooting RAW + smallest jpg-s. Stitched using AutoPano Pro. Final file size 3.1 GB, PSB format.
(100% crops included - 1.9 MB)
In the first crop - I did not even see that very sad looking person during shooting!
The last crop - small pebbles from the mountain wall in the center of the image.
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Choose your lens according to your vision, not it's CA characteristics etc.
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Hi
Personally I would go for the 28 & 45-90. I know of an excellent landscape photographer who uses the same set up with the 28mm & loves it. Yes you can go wider but you can just turn on the camera & shoot with the 28mm. The new Phase software coming should have some correction tools built in for Mamiya lenses. My next purchase for my Mamiya kit will be the 28mm.
Denis
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I recently purchased a Mamiya 645AFD with a digital back, and here is what I chose for landscapes and occasional wildlife in Africa.
35mm
55-110mm
105-210mm
300mm f/4.5
80mm
150mm
Since fast primes are not a requirement for me, and I will be stopping down a decent amount, slower lenses are actually preferred. Slower lenses are also lighter. And since many of my landscapes are in Africa, like locations in Namibia, I chose to go with some zooms. I will likely use the 55-110mm and 105-210mm most of the time, with occasional 35mm and 300mm use. What amazes me is how much smaller and lighter the Mamiya 300mm f/4.5 is over the Hasselblad. And the Mamiya has a slick built-in lens shade that slips away, similar to the Canon 300mm f/4.
The 80mm and 150mm lenses will be used for nothing other than for portraits.
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I had the 45 with the AFDII and did a lot of stitching. Great lens super sharp!!
Best of luck!