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Can someone suggest a lense for taking pictures of landscapes and beachscapes to go on my Canon 550D?
Lense for landscapes and beachscapes?
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What kind of budget?
There are loads of 10-20/10-24/8-16-11-16mm lens, most with variable aperture around f/4. to f/5.6, some fixed f/2.8. For Landscape the slower aperture lenses are fine, so take your pick.
The 10-24mm lens work out as very good general purpose walkabout lenses, especially when doubled up with something longer like a 70-200/50-200mm. 24mm puts you at the 'normal' focal range (and is where things start to get boring perspective wise), 10mm is extremely wide and very hard to use.
The sigma 8-16mm is one of the best and it is significantly wider than the 10mm lenses, but this because much more of a specialized lens. If there is a particular ultra wide angle photo you have in mind then you mount this lens, take your photos, and then the next scene you come across might need something wider. Anything less than around 12mm gets very hard to work with and needs very careful composition.
Don't be fulled, these ultra wide lenses are really expert tools, requiring a lot of skill to use effectively. If you just "try to fit more in" then you will get very disappointing results., you need strong foreground, midground and background features and strong connecting lines or paths to work well.
You can't really go wrong with any of the lenses TBH.
There are loads of 10-20/10-24/8-16-11-16mm lens, most with variable aperture around f/4. to f/5.6, some fixed f/2.8. For Landscape the slower aperture lenses are fine, so take your pick.
The 10-24mm lens work out as very good general purpose walkabout lenses, especially when doubled up with something longer like a 70-200/50-200mm. 24mm puts you at the 'normal' focal range (and is where things start to get boring perspective wise), 10mm is extremely wide and very hard to use.
The sigma 8-16mm is one of the best and it is significantly wider than the 10mm lenses, but this because much more of a specialized lens. If there is a particular ultra wide angle photo you have in mind then you mount this lens, take your photos, and then the next scene you come across might need something wider. Anything less than around 12mm gets very hard to work with and needs very careful composition.
Don't be fulled, these ultra wide lenses are really expert tools, requiring a lot of skill to use effectively. If you just "try to fit more in" then you will get very disappointing results., you need strong foreground, midground and background features and strong connecting lines or paths to work well.
You can't really go wrong with any of the lenses TBH.