LANDSCAPE. Which lenses do you all use?

[Mdb2]

Currently using 8-18 +12-100 + 75-300 but switching to and keeping my 8-18 + 12-40 currently purchasing from forum member + 40-150 2.8. Don’t really know what way to go thoughts welcome.

[Tram]

Panasonic 9/1.7 and Olympus 12-100.
Also Panasonic 7-14, but I use a G9 which doesn't get the flare issue

[blu-by-u]

My travel kit, 8mm/1.8, 12-35 (or 12-40), 35-100 and 100-300. BUT since getting the 12-200, it's 8mm, 12-200, and 25/1.8 or 17/1.8

Here are links to several walkabouts using the 12-200

KLCC

Avenue of Stars, HK

By the banks of the Malacca River by Night

[Pannas]

I find such questions interesting and sometimes surprising. In my case I find that I have a marked preference for the 40-150mm f4, over others, with my 12-45mm f4, the next preferred.

[MJ224]

I don't really do many Landscapes as such. Many of mine are with the 12-100mm f4, often panoramas. So no expert advice here alas...

[IainMacD]

8-25 f4, 12-40 f2.8 (main landscape lens) & 40-150 f4

[Bobblejack]

Probably 12-100 f4. I would be interested to hear other's views regarding the differences between this and the 12-40 f2.8. Is the wider aperture an advantage for landscapes?

[IainMacD]

Most of my landscape shots with my 12-40 f2.8 are taken at more than f4 but every once in a while there is the need to use it wide open to isolate a subject from its surroundings.

[Bobblejack]

Thanks. I also have the Laowa 10mm f2 zero-d which I use for landscapes which I have found useful for isolating a feature foreground with an interesting blurred background.

[Wreckdiver]

I very rarely use my Olympus/OM-S cameras for landscape work as I prefer my FF Nikons with 16-35mm and 24-70mm lenses. However, those landscapes I have taken with my Olympus MK1s and 1X were with the 12-40mm lens and the 7-14mm as I have a filter holder that fits this lens.

[stoates]

For me the Oly 12-100mm is on for 80-90% of my landscapes, shooting predominantly F8 (so no need for anything faster than F4). For wide shots I've the Pan/Leica 8-18mm and am just about to take delivery of a Laowa 6mm. On the odd occasion I need longer than the 100mm reach I still have an Oly 50-200 4/3 SWD + EC14 on a second body though I'm still holding out hope that OMS stick to their 'roadmap' and I can replace it with a m4/3 equivalent in the near future.

[pdk42]

I’d recommend not stopping down as far as f8 since you’ll be starting to get softening due to diffraction. Best to keep it to f5.6 unless you really need the DOF.

[stoates]

Paul, I 'field tested' the lens when I got it at varying apertures v focal length. Without pixel-peeping to the nth degree, diffraction only became noticeable at F10 and above so more than happy to shoot at F8. Front to back sharpness is generally more important to me and whereas I'm happy to focus stack when necessary I can usually get the shot in one at F8.

[alfbranch]

I shoot at f8 most of the time

[rustyarrow]

12-100 if I ever do any, I did have a 7-14 which was very good.

[pdk42]

I don’t use m43 for landscape any longer, but when I did, the 8-18 and 12-100 were my go-to lenses. Both are superb and give a very wide range of framing options in just two relatively small lenses. I also used the 8mm fisheye a lot - that’s quite an astonishing lens and great for many types of landscape shooting.

[shenstone]

It used to be the 12-100, but since getting my lightweight kit of the OM5 with the 12-45 I use that a lot

Back in 4/3 I used the 7-14 a lot, but I tend to stick pictures these days instead of using a wider lens

[MikeOxon]

I use 9-18 and 12-45 f/4 - mostly the latter. I frequently 'stitch' shots to widen the horizontal coverage. The wider angle lens becomes useful if there's a dramatic sky but otherwise tends to show too much on top.

[blackfox]

Weird I live in one of the most scenic parts of the u.k … but I simply can’t see the landscape picture when I’m looking at it weird or what

[pdk42]

Each to their own Jeff. I can’t photograph birds for toffee (and have no desire to).

[MJ224]

Weird, Jeff, Weird...

[wanderer]

12-100mm F4, it covers many bases. I tend to use the wide end more. I have used other lenses from Laowa 6mm up to the big white. I've even used the F1.2 lenses for particular effect. I try to 'make a journey' in a picture. I also do many panoramas . For these, I am very happy using Lightroom stitching. Trying to use a focal length of 50mm (old money) or more and less than 12 images otherwise it is too wide. I have shot panoramas using long telephotos but this can lead to haze and atmospheric distortion.