How good is the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 Lens for landscape photography?
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Not very good – it’s a standard walkaround lens on full frame and a light telephoto lens on crop frame.
For landscape, wide angle lenses are more suitable. The standard kit lens does a reasonable job, and for really cool wide angle shots an ultra wide angle lens such as the Canon 10-22mm is excellent.
not really that good, its 50mm on a full frame or 80mm on a crop body, that is “normal” and portrait focal lengths. For landscape you really want to wide/ultra wide angle (show whole scene) or sometimes long tele ( zoom in from far away). Its still a good lens, very light and great value for money.
Its not the best choice since landscape photography is usually done with a wide angle lens. The 18mm end of your 18-55mm zoom would be a better choice. The 50mm f1.8 is better suited for portraits.
Most of my best landscape are shot on lenses in the range of 80 to 120mm on DX sensor, but most people seem to think that wide-angles are the only thing for landscapes.
no, a 50mm lens is good for portraiture… landscapes need a wide angle lens… 10-24mm is good…
but needs to have the aperture set to f/16…
Apart from the focal length issue, the f/1.8 maximum aperture of this lens will not be useful for landscapes, which generally need a generous depth of field.
It can be used to shoot landscapes – but the field of view will be fairly narrow & you wouldn’t shoot it wide open in any case – you’d stop it down for greater depth of field. Given those two constraints, its a perfectly capable lens for landscapes, in fact in terms of sharpness, it’s great.
However, most people tend to use a wider angle lens (10-20mm or thereabouts), as this tends to give more drama to a landscape, but you don’t have to.
Some beautiful landscape shots have been taken with telephoto lenses, where you may want to concentrate on one small element in the scene.