Landscape photography is about capturing a wide perspective with all the essential details. Whether you want to fill your frame with expansive scenery or capture the style of architecture, it’s important to have the right combination of camera and zoom lens, and here is our recommended selection.
You might think capturing the wonder of a peaceful, sweeping mountain scene would be relatively easy. However landscape photography comes with its own challenges, so let us help you in selecting the right lens.
Compatibility: EOS cameras and EF lenses work together for the very best results. EF lens mounts connect the lenses electronically enabling highly accurate real time data transfer. Only genuine Canon lenses on Canon cameras gives you optimum performance in both speed of autofocus and image quality.
Reliability: Canon lenses are built with outstanding optics that keep colours accurate and contrast high for best in colour reproduction and highly detailed images. The specially developed coating on Canon lenses resists smudging and reduces lens flair when shooting in bright sunlight.
The EF 16-35mm f/2.8L III USM is a premium quality ultra-wide angle zoom lens that incorporates a range of wide focal lengths giving you the flexibility to catch variety of images without having to change lenses.
This classic wide zoon offers stunning sharpness throughout the zoom range with minimal distortion creating stunning images.
With a constant f/2.8 maximum aperture, it will give you the highest image quality possible even in low light conditions.
“The EF 16-35mm f2.8L III USM is a superb and flexible wide-angle zoom that has earned its keep on many a dawn and dusk patrol.”
David Noton, Canon Explorer
The EF 35mm f/1.4L II USM is a true modern classic: a standard wide-angle lens beloved by photographers for its natural perspective, low-light capability and extraordinary optical performance.
A large f/1.4 maximum aperture lets in two stops more light than an f/2.8 zoom lens, making this an ideal lens for hand-held photography in low-light conditions.
Shooting at wide apertures allows photographers to limit depth of field. Creating such shallow-focus effects is one way that a subject can be made to stand out against a background, and is particularly effective when combined with the lens’s wide-angle field of view.
The EF 24mm f/1.4L II USM is the ultimate in fast aperture wide-angle lenses making it an ideal Landscape lens. The UD and aspherical elements eliminate distortion and aberrations for stunning results. A f/1.4 maximum aperture allows hand-held shooting in low light, greatly expanding your creative options.
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