SquamishPhoto said:
The funny thing about your statement is that, when you really think about it, you're actually the one limiting yourself with the lens. I use it for everything you listed, including landscapes, and Im sure they're even other ways neither of us have thought of to utilise the lens. In fact, for at least half of my large panoramas I'm using the 14-24mm @ 14mm to stitch 8 to 20+ images. But, like you, I also use other focal lengths to achieve different styles of landscape work, including the PC-E 45mm, the 85mm f1.4, the 200mm f2, the 300mm f2.8 & f4. Below are a variety of examples of landscape, sports and pets using all of the lenses listed thus far. Ill include a list at the bottom with lens and camera specifics so that people can make their own guesses first:-All shots taken on a D700-
1. 300mm - pano
2. 14mm - pano
3. 14mm
4. 200mm
5. 45mm - pano - stack
6. 14mm - pano
7. 300mm - pano
8. 200mm - pano
9. 45mm - pano
10. 14mm - pano
11. 14mm - pano
12. 14mm
13. 300mm pano - stack
14. 14mm @ 23mm
15. 14mm
16. 14mmMy point is that the lens works great for plenty of jobs and telling others that they're using the lens wrong just makes you sound like a snob. And, worse than that, it makes you sound like Ken Rockwell. *shiver*
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I first want to thank the contributor or a great variety of shots. I can only guess at what else he/she has in their portfolio. Also I have recently added a D800 and a D800e to my lanscape equipment as I have been shooting Canon mostly Tilt-Shift 24 and 17. I do really like the pano and focus stacked shots and my shooting mostly resumbles your number 5 with forground and side plants and then a large distant background. Your way works and probably works better than my approach. If I need to use ND or polarizer on the lens I use 24 pce with or without shifting. The 16-35 doesn't seem as sharp but is handy for a walk around lens when I don't intend on using a tripod (which I always use the the 24 pce. I do really like my 14-24 and use it for all cramped spaces and where I want to really make the foreground stand out in the composition but where I don't need a polarizer. I still sometimes use the large glass grad ND filter by holding them somewhat close to the 14-24. I think the 14-24 is the sharpest of the combo at more of the focal lengths. I'm not really happy with the 24 pce because I have the Canon and I'm so in love with the double axis rotation so I can get both shift and tilt in the same plane. Plus both Canons seem much sharper than the 24 Nikon. Maybe I got a bad one. I'm just this close to sending it in for modification and possible repair to see if it is just a bad one (rotation goes just a little too far maybe).
In any case I can see a use for all three Nikon lenes but the 16-35 seems to stay in my bag most of the time. The 14-24 is my favorite of the three but I'm trying to like the 24 pce. Hope these comments are useful to someone.
