Sony 24-240mm f/3.5-6.3 VS Sony 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 VS sony 70-200 f/4 VS Canon 70-200 f/4 + Sigma mc11

[Michelemessi]

Ciao Everybody!

I'm new here, so first of all nice to met you people, (as well I'm quite new with Sony stuff so I would need your help) I'm Michele... writing from Italy.

I would need your help to decide wich one between the above Lenses is the best value for my bucks.. I shoot mainly landscapes so I do not need a superduper fast lens but I would like something that gives back good quality images

I know that these lenses have quite different prices but what I would like to understand is if it is worth to pay more or not... Also I was thinking about the canon that costs half the sony f/4 price and I know that has quite a good quality.. also considering the fact that the MC11 cames to a quite good price and works quite well..

 

I do not know guys.. let me know what do you think... thanks a lot to everyone that is willing to share his/her thoughts.

have a great day

[JCC]

Do you need that much zoom for landscape shots?  Most of the ones I've seen are with very wide angle.

 

JCC

[tinplater]

Welcome!  I don't like any of your choices, to be honest.  I  have personal experience with the 24-240 and the 70-200 F4. I hated the 24-240!  It lacks contrast and sharpness and would be an awful landscape lens in my opinion.  The 70-200 F4 is a wonderful lens, but tele not as useful as wide angle for many landscape shots.  I think you should carefully consider...do you need the huge zoom range you have listed?  Have you excluded primes?  Finally adapting lenses (and I had about half a dozen quality Canon) is inferior, in broad terms, to native lenses and MC-11 is not compatible with all Canon lenses plus it adds about an inch and a half to the length.  Want a cheap but sharp little lens?  Try a Sigma 19 (about $100 on Ebay).  Or a 30mm.  Or a 60mm.  If you wanted to spend a bit more for a quality landscape lens at a reasonable price I would suggest the Sony Zeiss 35mm 2.8.

[Jeffcs]

You can use just about any lens you’d like for landscape photography but when you start going longer, above 50mm you change the perspective and begin to compress due to longer mm lenses generally speaking wide angle is normally the suggested landscape lenses . Have you thought about 16-35 seems to be a really nice focal length.