My Most Underrated Lens for Landscape Photography

Recently, I had a conversation with a very close photographer friend. We started talking about the lenses we thought were indispensable to our work. As you could expect from a couple of landscape photographers, we started off by gushing over our widest lenses. I said that I absolutely love my Sony FE 12-24m f/4 G [ Amazon | B&H Photo ], but I hated the bulk and weight of the filter system I had to lug around.

Somehow, our conversation drifted to lenses that had been collecting dust in our closets. I think many of us can relate to that, right? We have a lens or two (or maybe more??) that haven't seen sunlight in ages. That's when I remembered one particular lens that has always been a total champ for me in the field... my most underrated lens for landscape photography, and it's one I suspect you wouldn't guess. It's the ZEISS Batis 2.8/135 [ Amazon | B&H Photo ]. It's one of the lenses I discussed in another recent video.

This lens has produced some of my favorite landscape shots... and not just tight shots of isolated subjects. I have created some beautiful photos that look like I used a wider lens. So, check out the video below and see what I mean.