Top 3##p-l-u-s##3 travel lenses for your next trip
If you like to travel and have a camera with an interchangeable lens mount. They enjoy a freedom that allows them to give free rein to their creativity even on vacation. This is where most photographers' opinions diverge and fundamental discussions arise about the perfect equipment. Minimalists take only one lens with them, they live the restriction to take new angles, just this can be interesting for photographers who are also in a phase of reinvention. Here are perhaps particularly interesting pancake lenses, which imitate the street look +amp;+amp; cell phone look, but ensure a better resolution of the camera.
After all, limiting promotes creativity. If you want to be prepared for every situation, you might find the perfect universal lens here in the article, which ends up in the photo case or better photo backpack for the next trip. Of course, the question is always in which area you photograph yourself.
22.2x zoom - one lens for everything: Tamron 18-400 mm Di II VC HLD
Considered particularly suitable for travel Megazoom lenses are praised as being particularly suitable for travel. With good reason, because they ensure that you don't have to take many different lenses with you. With a focal length of 18-400 mm, the Tamron AF 3.5-6.3/18-400 Di II VC HLD covers an enormous zoom range and is therefore a wonderful travel lens. From the wide angle of 18 mm (about 28 mm converted to 35 mm) to the incredible telephoto range of 400 mm (about 620 mm converted to 35 mm), you have a huge 22.2x zoom here. No other interchangeable lens for SLR cameras currently offers this much. The great advantage of packing only one lens saves you from lugging around several lenses and constantly changing them, which can be annoying and time-consuming, especially with the frequently changing motifs on a trip. The lens also impresses with its built-in image stabilizer and HLD motor for fast and accurate autofocus. It is available for Canon EF-S or Nikon DX SLR cameras. There are also plenty of megazoom lenses for other connections, but with smaller magnification. For example, the Sony SEL 3.5-5.6/18-135 mm OSS for Sony E-Mount or the Panasonic AF 3.5-5.6/14-140 Var. OIS II for Micro Four Thirds. Such megazoom lenses are ideal for all beginners and intermediates who are looking for an ambitious, but not highly professional image quality. By packing a large zoom into a lens, it is not possible to achieve the quality in every focal length range as with a very good shorter Zoom lens or a Fixed focal length. Thus, the recommendation here goes to all those for whom just the issue of weight and zoom is important, but also a good image quality is enough. The big bonus is having a lens for almost everything. Canon EF-S mount
Nikon DX mount
Sony FE mount
Tamron AF 18-400mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC HLD
- gigantic 22.2x zoom
- world's first ultra-telephoto megazoom with a maximum focal length of 400mm (May 2017)
- unique, lightweight and compact design in this focal length range
- Superior image quality
- precise AF thanks to HLD motor
- built-in image stabilizer
- weatherproof design
Luminosity, sharpness, conscious photography: Compact fixed focal lengths
Optimized for exactly one focal length Fixed focal lengths. As a result, they usually offer more sharpness and can be built to be faster. When traveling, however, they have the major disadvantage that you have to take more lenses with you and constantly change them. Nevertheless, many photographers do not rely on zooms even on vacation. Many even take only one fixed focal length with them, as this forces you to take photographs much more deliberately. With the non-changeable image section, you have to look at how you use it depending on the motif and whether it makes a difference to take a step forward, backward or to the side. This allows you to concentrate on the essentials, whereas with a zoom you are more inclined to simply pull the trigger after you have changed the crop by turning it slightly. Since we are talking about travel photography, we would like to recommend light and compact fixed focal lengths. Most major manufacturers offer very fast 50 mm standard focal lengths at a realtively low price, which can be used for beautiful portraits and pictures in difficult lighting situations even away from travel. In detail, these lenses are: Canon EF 1.8/50 STM
Canon RF 1.8/50 STM
Nikon AF 1,4/50 D
Pentax DA 1.8/50 SMC
Sony AF 1.8/50 Prime FE mount
Sony AF 1,8/50 SAM DT Sony A-mount
Tamron 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD Sony FE mount
The Tamron 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD currently offers a brute focal length of over 350mm for the Sony FE mount. But that also comes a really cheeky closest focusing distance of 2cm and thus this lens is also suitable for macro. This lens is of course not from the aperture the best lens for dark situations, but a lens that serves virtually all applications and makes many lenses redundant in the luggage. Combine this with a wide angle zoom and you have everything for the next trip packed with 2 lenses. If you are really crazy, you can add a fixed focal length to capture the darker moments of the trip or for that extra bit of cropping.
Tamron 17-70mm f/2.8 Di III-A VC RXD
Whether for Fujifilm or Sony, the Tamron 17-70mm is also a perfect companion for city tours and landscape shots where it doesn't have to get particularly close. For example, it is also a conceivable complement to the aforementioned Tamron 50-400mm with significantly more light gathering power. Over the entire focal length, you have an aperture of 2.8 at your disposal, with which it can also work very well in low-light situations.
[Important info about the 17-70mm it is a pure APSC lens and would therefore not cover 100% of the sensor on a Sony Alpha 7.
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