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Panorama ... which lens?


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Hallo everybody,
I would like to know your views on this question.


I have been using a Leica SL2 with the 24-90 for about 3 months (quarantine permitting ...). Although I have always done travel and street photography, I would like to learn more about landscape photography and I thought that together with the right filters I would like to buy a fixed lens only for landscapes.

I looked on the internet and I was thinking of focusing on a Sigma 14mm 1.8 DG Art. What do you think?


Do you think it's right to choose a 14mm as a dedicated lens or with my 24-90 I'm already in place?
I'd like to know your considerations and thanks in advance for the time you want to dedicate me!

Regards,
Gino

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One can shoot 'landscapes' with most any focal length.  Some, like me, prefer use of longer lenses to isolate and compress views, rather than creating wide angle/panoramic shots.  An old article by the late Michael Reichmann, recently republished at LuLa, presents this way of seeing.

https://luminous-landscape.com/make-it-long/

The SL2 and SL24-90 works for me, but so do the SL75 and the SL90-280 (as well as M bodies with 28/35/50mm lenses).  Of course, to each his/her own.

Jeff

 

 

 

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10 hours ago, Jeff S said:

One can shoot 'landscapes' with most any focal length.  Some, like me, prefer use of longer lenses to isolate and compress views, rather than creating wide angle/panoramic shots.  An old article by the late Michael Reichmann, recently republished at LuLa, presents this way of seeing.

https://luminous-landscape.com/make-it-long/

The SL2 and SL24-90 works for me, but so do the SL75 and the SL90-280 (as well as M bodies with 28/35/50mm lenses).  Of course, to each his/her own.

Jeff

 

 

 

Thanks Jeff!
I found the Reichmann article’s very useful!
Regards,

Gino

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47 minutes ago, LeicaDreamer said:

Thanks!
very nice pictures, thanks for sharing!
With “WATE 16mm” do you mean the Leica 16-35?
 

Regards,

Gino

Sorry no. I mean the Leica M Tri-Elmar 16-21mm. But I am sure the Leica SL 16-35 does great.

This is a good panorama app: https://www.ptgui.com/

But there are others that probably gives good results too. 

Automated, the learning curve is  quite flat:)

Here is an example where pictures were taken from a Zodiac ( in Greenland) and in the result the horizon was wavy.

No problem: warped in Photoshop and it came out straight:

 

 

 

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