Long telephoto prime lens for landscapes?

[Rienzphotoz]

Once I bought my 5D3, my 70-200 f/4L IS moved from the Birding group to the new Landscape group. It does nice work there. It still visits the birders on occasion.

200mm on FF can work for birds, but you have to get close...


EOS 1D X, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM @ 200mm, 1/60 s, f/2.8, ISO 125

Back to the OP's point, while a 400mm prime can be used for landscapes, it's likely not ideal. I and others have mentioned using a 70-xxx or 100-400 zoom for landscape shooting, but how much of that is at the long end? For me, many are in the 70-150mm range. The 100L Macro also makes a very nice landscape lens...


EOS 1D X, EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, 1/100 s, f/5.6, ISO 200

Very nice pics!

 

[Sporgon]

I find that medium telephoto such as the 135 f2 and 200 2.8 can be useful landscape lenses, but even with this focal length it is very easy to suffer from the problems listed by others; shake, air diffusion and dof being the main ones. I do like the potential of the tight framing and compression though. I even use them for panos, the picture below of Whitby Abbey was shot on the 135L, but as I was shooting in sections and pretty close diffusion wasn't an issue despite it being very early in the morning ( 5 o'clock ) and a light sea mist.

In the bottom picture, which is a single frame, you can see how the line of trees behind the bracken is very sharp but the hills beyond are softer due to air diffusion. Actually I think it produces a pleasant effect.

Personally I wouldn't want to use anything longer than 200mm in this way.

Severe issue with web colour on second image, I'll have to change it :-[

 

[surapon]

Once I bought my 5D3, my 70-200 f/4L IS moved from the Birding group to the new Landscape group. It does nice work there. It still visits the birders on occasion.

200mm on FF can work for birds, but you have to get close...


EOS 1D X, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM @ 200mm, 1/60 s, f/2.8, ISO 125

Back to the OP's point, while a 400mm prime can be used for landscapes, it's likely not ideal. I and others have mentioned using a 70-xxx or 100-400 zoom for landscape shooting, but how much of that is at the long end? For me, many are in the 70-150mm range. The 100L Macro also makes a very nice landscape lens...


EOS 1D X, EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, 1/100 s, f/5.6, ISO 200

Great Photos , Sir, Dear Teacher.
Surapon