The DA*300 Does Landscape

Sleet and snow late yesterday with more snow overnight that promptly froze. Periods of sunlight today reflecting off the snow highlighted the topography of the hills in a pleasing manner.

Feeling wimpish in the cold weather I decided that rather than walking the hills I would photograph them from the comfort of the house. This provided the added benefit of removing the risk of slipping over in the ice and snow and breaking something.

The DA*300 lent itself to the task very well, especially when I decided to switch to manual focus to fine tune the focussing to infinity (or thereabouts).

There is nothing notable with the images as such but they have encouraged me to use the lens more often when out in the hills. Not everything needs to be shot with <100mm focal length.

Hmmm, OP was truncated and not sure what happened to the pictures: I'll try again.

These look quite nice but I hope you are well stocked up in your moorland stronghold. It looks mighty cold!

Yes, as you've found, the DA*300 is a very capable landscape lens. And, of course, it's WR so quite capable of shrugging off a bit of the white stuff if you get caught while walking. It's just a matter of finding the right landscape for it, and you've certainly done that. The last one's my favourite, the light and the layer of cloud lift it above the others for me.

Steve

You've captured a beautiful quality of light in these landscapes Nigel and demonstrated perfectly why we should ignore the traditional uses of different lenses. Nicely Done

I'm partial to this type of landscape myself, but it tends to be the summer when I venture out. Well done on your observation and perseverance

David, Steve, John, Barrie: thank you all for the comments.

The product of plenty of food and little exercise during the last few days forced me to head out today. The ground was very icy, with the trails across the moor having been well trodden on by many other feet enjoying the sunshine. Still it was lovely to be out albeit with most of the time spent watching my feet rather than enjoying the views

I hadn't considered using the DA*300 for landscape before and was pleasantly surprised with the results. The one thing I need to practice is using it in manual focus mode. Where the scene involved a lot of snow the auto focus was struggling to achieve accurate focus and a tweak of the focus ring was required. This isn't as easy as using a native manual focus lens, with the focus ring needing the lightest of light touches to nudge focus along a bit, The practice required is worth it for the results.

David: well stocked up, ta, and out in the cold does lead to the pleasure of warming up next to the log burner. I predict that I'll be sleep in approximately 7 minutes.

What a fabulous view to have outside your window, mine is of an Indian restaurant which has grown to block the view of distant hills!

Hello Rob.

I do appreciate what we have - we are very lucky.

I have lived elsewhere with a view of the local takeaway (great smells though and oh so convenient ) and with traffic thundering past at all times. At least I don't have to be wary of being seen by those on the top deck of buses any more !

I really am nodding off now. Dammit! I was looking forward to a glass of something. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.