08-09-2016, 08:18 AM
There's no such thing as "the best landscape lens", I'm sorry. Some photogs don't like wide-angle for landscapes, for others like me it can't be wide enough. Although I agree to "for landscapes fast lenses are not needed", I simply don't provide fast and non-fast lenses to go with. My fast lenses have also to do landscapes and so far they managed. Yes, image stabilization is quite good these days, but to play with wide-angle wide open there's only one way... When I'm traveling and taking pictures in a city at night, I don't feel so comfortable with the setup of a tripod.
But in your scenario I also tend to the already recommended lenses and would like to add, a wider angle than 24 mm for full frame can very easily lead to diagonal waterfalls if you want to put them out of center in your composition. When you need more field of view, you can do so as well by using a 35 mm in portrait orientation, shoot a panorama and stitch afterwards together. While saying so, I hardly do that, I simply don't want to carry a panorama head, too.
But in your scenario I also tend to the already recommended lenses and would like to add, a wider angle than 24 mm for full frame can very easily lead to diagonal waterfalls if you want to put them out of center in your composition. When you need more field of view, you can do so as well by using a 35 mm in portrait orientation, shoot a panorama and stitch afterwards together. While saying so, I hardly do that, I simply don't want to carry a panorama head, too.