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evansharafuddin
Posted 9 years ago
I got my 50mm lens a couple weeks back for my EOS Rebel T5 and I am amazed at its quality and versatility. I was wondering if the lens could be used for landscape photography, because I have heard many good things about the lens performance in landscape. Would you recommend I use it for landscape photography?
A 50mm lens can take just about almost anything but the general practice for landscape photography is to go as wide as possible. On a full frame dSLR the 50mm would have a field of view that's much wider than if it were on a cropped sensor model like the Rebel T5.
However, if you have a photo stitching software like Photoshop you could take a series of landscape shots with a 50mm and have them carefully blended together in post processing to form a panoramic image. I haven't tried this myself but I've seen some great panoramas taken with a 35mm lens. :-)
To answer your question - yes, a 50mm lens can also take landscape shots but to fit in more details you'll have to be far away from the subject.
Moreover, single capture landscapes that are taken at 18mm (I assume you have the EF-S 18-55mm kit zoom) and cropped in post to look like it was shot with a 50mm will look worse than if it were originally zoomed in to 50mm. The reason for this is because when you crop in post, you're also magnifying the pixels and losing some detail in the process.
There's also the so-called telephoto compression effect, which makes faraway objects appear bunched up closer than they really are. The amount of compression will also increase as the focal length increases. If you like the slight compression effect at 50mm, your EF 50mm f/1.8 would be the better lens to use compared to the kit zoom lens zoomed in to 50mm.
hope this helps. :-)
However, if you have a photo stitching software like Photoshop you could take a series of landscape shots with a 50mm and have them carefully blended together in post processing to form a panoramic image. I haven't tried this myself but I've seen some great panoramas taken with a 35mm lens. :-)
To answer your question - yes, a 50mm lens can also take landscape shots but to fit in more details you'll have to be far away from the subject.
Moreover, single capture landscapes that are taken at 18mm (I assume you have the EF-S 18-55mm kit zoom) and cropped in post to look like it was shot with a 50mm will look worse than if it were originally zoomed in to 50mm. The reason for this is because when you crop in post, you're also magnifying the pixels and losing some detail in the process.
There's also the so-called telephoto compression effect, which makes faraway objects appear bunched up closer than they really are. The amount of compression will also increase as the focal length increases. If you like the slight compression effect at 50mm, your EF 50mm f/1.8 would be the better lens to use compared to the kit zoom lens zoomed in to 50mm.
hope this helps. :-)