Landscape lens?

[simmo]

Hi everyone,

Just wondering if anyone could recommend to a friend of mine a good quality nikkor lens for landscape photography. He has about 1k to spend and open to other suggestions.

Cheers
Simmo

[dannat (Daniel)]

is it a aps-c body or full frame?
he prob couldn't afford the nikon 12-24mm, the samyang/rokinon primes are god value for money

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

If it isn't full frame the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 is not exactly cheap but is pretty good value. Image quality does drop off a bit at f/2.8 but is still OK.

If it's a full frame camera you can still use it but you will get vignetting below 13mm. I might comment further when I get the a-mount to e-mount adapter so I can use it on my Sony a7s.

[simmo]

Thanks guys,

Looking at full frame.

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

OK, the a-mount to e-mount adapter turned up today. Here are three examples from the Tokina on my a7s. The first is in APS-C mode, the others in full-frame. It looks like you can't go below 15mm without some vignetting. EXIF data for the raw images (before shrinking to 33% and 80% quality for upload).

======== DSC00035.JPG
File Name                       : DSC00035.JPG
ISO                             : 100
Focal Length                    : 11.0 mm
Focal Length In 35mm Format     : 16 mm
Aperture                        : 6.3
Shutter Speed                   : 1/160
======== DSC00036.JPG
File Name                       : DSC00036.JPG
ISO                             : 100
Focal Length                    : 11.0 mm
Focal Length In 35mm Format     : 11 mm
Aperture                        : 6.3
Shutter Speed                   : 1/200
======== DSC00037.JPG
File Name                       : DSC00037.JPG
ISO                             : 100
Focal Length                    : 15.0 mm
Focal Length In 35mm Format     : 15 mm
Aperture                        : 6.3
Shutter Speed                   : 1/200

[Kunama]

Originally Posted by simmo

Hi everyone,

Just wondering if anyone could recommend to a friend of mine a good quality nikkor lens for landscape photography. He has about 1k to spend and open to other suggestions.

Cheers
Simmo

I use the AF-S 17-35mm F2.8 these go for around $1K used, but test it first to make sure it is not noisy.
(the SWM can get rather squeaky, this does not matter for landscapes as you would be focusing manually anyway)