Life is short. Air travel, hotels, car rentals, meals, park entrance fees etc are expensive. So why waste time with cheap junk?
You’ve traveled half way around the world to stand in front of one of the world’s wonders and you pull out some hopelessly out of date camera, hand hold it, snap off a few quick shots with the bus load of Chinese tourists to your right and another bus load of senior citizens to your left.
Enough. Time to cash in some of those stock options, that inheritance check from dear old Uncle Jim or that winning lottery ticket and get yourself a really kick ass landscape photography kit.
Let’s start with a great tripod. I love the Vanguard tripods with their fantastic lifetime guarantee. The beefy carbon fiber models with the wide feet will provide a steady base for what’s to come next.
An easy to use and firm connection between the tripod and camera is important to quickly set up and compose your shot as well as not move at all when taking multiple shots for later stitching.
The incredible new Canon 24mm Tilt Shift lens provides tack sharp landscape images, edge to edge thanks to its over-sized front lens element. The shifting capabilities allows one take multiple images without moving the camera body for zero distortion.
The shift feature is also great for architectural subjects and the tilt effects are great for throwing the plane of focus across your subject for back to front focus or to purposely throw your foreground and background out of focus for miniature effects.
We top this landscape photography kit off with a monster of a camera. The
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