Is The Canon 80d Any Good For Landscape Photography

The 80D is the lasest APS-C body I ain and I’ve had it for several years. Here’s a shot I made at Yellowstone in 2022 of a grizzly with 80D + Canon 100-400L ver. 1.

Effort it, you lot’ll like it.

Kent

mfinley wrote:

I have created landscape photographs with my cell phone. Unless y’all accept specific lens requirements or specific large format press final destinations for your images, virtually anything that creates a digital file is a capable landscape camera.

Thank you for your time! I as well apply a jail cell phone camera a lot and when I buy a new cell phone, a great camera is my #1 feature to expect for. I have taken some decent mural photos with my Note 8 (in the past) and Pixe 4a5G (current). Some of my friends fifty-fifty take asked for my cell phone photos so they can print them large and hang them on their walls. I had to tell them that they cannot do that since it was taken from a 12mp cell phone. Outside that, nobody has shown interest in buying my photos and I am also not actively trying to sell them. Only when the opportunity comes, I would dear to sell my photos or at to the lowest degree be able to print them big and hang them on my living room walls. That is the reason, I am looking for a decent landscape camera.

rick decker wrote:

Why would your Sony cameras not exist good for mural. In general the about important function of a system is the lens. Especialy true for landscape. And, for landscape pixel qualty is important. That’s why in pre-digital days, many of the landscape pros shot medium and large format. The question I would ask nearly your l-250 is how does it hold up at 100%. I regularly see images that look practiced when downsized and don’t agree up at 100% – even in the centre.

Cheers Rick!

Long story short, I bought the 80D to pair with my Sigma 150-600mm for wildlife photography. I get decent shots with this combo, only when I pair the Sigma lens with the Sony a6100 via MC-11, I get much better/sharper shots, so now the a6100 has become my wild fauna camera. The goal when I bought the a6100 was to use it for landscape, travel, family unit, etc.

So, Sony a6100 + MC-eleven + Sigma 150-600mm C is my electric current wild fauna setup.

Canon 80D + 50-250mm is my electric current landscape setup. I also utilize 24mm2.8 when I need a wide-angle.

I also have the Sony a6000. I have not used it for over a year now. I have the Sony 16-50mm, 55-210mm, 50mm1.8, and Sigma 16mm1.4 lenses to go with it. The plan was to sell the a6000 and some of the lenses (kit lenses). And so Covid started and did not think almost it. Perchance I tin use my a6000 for landscape and add a decent zoom lens for information technology.

I will mail service a couple of photos I have taken using the 80D + fifty-250mm later.

Lan wrote:

Can you lot do Landscape photography with an EOS 80D? Of course! I did landscape photography with an EOS
one0D for years; as did many people here. Whatever modernish dSLR/mirrorless camera is capable of doing landscape photography with ease.

Is information technology the absolute all-time camera for landscape photography? No. In the 24MP APS-C arena I’d choose your Sony A6100 over it. Why? The Catechism has a stronger AA filter which removes some of the finest detail. On the upside, less moiré; on the downside, less detail.

The best value landscape camera at the moment is the A7R2. 42MP, full frame, and no AA filter. Drawbacks include beingness hatefully boring, and being more than expensive than your target price

Give thanks y’all! The Sony a6100 has get my wildlife camera since I get sharper images from it with the Sigma 150-600mm. That’s how the Canon 80D became my landscape camera. Otherwise, the goal was to use the Sony a6100 equally the landscape/everyday photographic camera.

I have been eyeing the A7R2, but information technology is a little more than I would like to pay. I besides constitute out that the full-frame lenses are much more expensive than the APSC lenses. So, as much as I would like to get sharper and larger landscape images, I think I will have to stay with the APSC world for now.

Or if I tin sell most of my not used lenses and 2 APSC bodies (80D and a6000), then I may be able to beget a full-frame camera and i/two lenses. Merely I am not practiced at selling stuff. I detest eBay scammers too.

TheWillRogers wrote:

And so long as you don’t have to rely on autofocus, video, or require calorie-free weight, I’ve been recommending used Pentax K-70 kits with the 18-135mm lens. If you’re patient y’all tin selection them up for nether $600 on ebay. Swell weather sealing, IBIS, Squeamish 24MP sensor without AA filter and has pixel-shift. Only ane person has picked it upwardly at my recommendation and so far and he really likes it. Apparently information technology’s non great for people with minor hands though.

But you accept an A6100 which is not bad so i’d just wait for glass for that instead.

Give thanks you!

I volition read about the Pentax Chiliad-70. Thanks for the recommendation!

The a6100 is beingness used equally a wildlife camera and it is fastened to my Sigma 150-600mm all the time. I detest switching lenses. Then, trying to brand two setups for wildlife and landscape.

KENTGA wrote:

I’ve used Canon dslr’s since 2005 and take spent much, much more on photographic equipment than I have on automobiles. Why??? I tin can’t answer that. Information technology’south merely an “thing” with me I guess. Your 80D should be fine. If y’all apply the mm range I would suggest an EF-S 17-55. That and the 24-105 on a FF is what I use most.

Kent

I think I practise have GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) too :).

I was thinking about getting either the Sigma 17-50mm 2.8 Or Sigma 17-70mm 2.eight-iv.0 for the 80D, but before I invest in a new lens, I wanted to make sure I accept a decent camera first.

jkjond wrote:

Capable – information technology has plenty of pixels and a water resistant torso. Those ii features should make information technology capable for most needs. Stops of DR, I’ll estimate information technology has plenty.

Whether it has enough pixels for your taste or waterproof enough for how you treat information technology, or enough DR for what you shoot? Your call.

And so I’m guessing it is a capable photographic camera for landscapes, but is it the best?

That depends on priorities and the type of images you similar to take. I’g guessing the answer is no. My go to camera for landscapes right now is my Olly OM5D, but that’s because I value portability above image quality. For days I feel epitome quality needs to shine I’ll take 1 of my full frame Nikons. If I had one I’d take my 850D. That would likely stay at home if I had that hugely expensive Phase One. Simply for most trips out and for holidays my Olly shines

If you aren’t happy with the canon, and so it may be the camera, how you’re using it, a bit of both, your processing or your expectation of a scene. We’re all different.

Hither’s a shot I like from a trip to Scotland concluding year, one of my faves from the vacation. It ticks all my boxes though many will not like information technology i bit – the camera used is virtually irrelevant (dof would be a potential trouble for nearly cameras for this shot, information technology would await different had it been taken with your canon, but may still tick all my boxes).

Thank you and beautiful shot!

There are no demands for my mural photos at the moment, merely if an opportunity comes, I would like to be able to sell my photos, so I wanted to beginning with a skilful camera, so I exercise not have to keep upgrading or learning about new photographic camera menu, etc.

My main requirement at the moment is to be able to impress large (even for my ain wall). I have a Grand Canyon image hanging on my living room wall that I got from Ikea. I would similar to replace it with my ain epitome one twenty-four hour period. I think that epitome is 55 inches by forty inches with the frame and the frame is about one-half-inch wide.

Vikingod wrote:

I certainly wouldn’t trash my camera considering it didn’t come on a google search under “best landscape cameras”…

In the right hands, whatever camera can take groovy photos. The 80D is a wonderful photographic camera and it’s a plenty capable tool for landscape photography. For social media purposes, those lenses aren’t a bad bargain either (though I’m sure pixel peepers volition disagree. I don’t do that except for my own piece of work).

If you have some money to burn and want to better your photography skills. Sign up for a form, or buy a book, or buy a set of videos to help your postal service-processing skills. That is going to pay way more than dividends that replacing an already great camera.

Thank you!

I definitely need to larn to exist a ameliorate photographer get-go and a proficient mail service processer 2d. I have seen people making a mediocre image a great image subsequently a process processing. I even don’t know how to use Photoshop/Lightroom and I do not own it. I employ a complimentary software called PhotoScape for my photo editing. I also use GIMP here and there.

JE River wrote:

Yes, the 80D is a good landscape camera. There is no question of that at all. Catamenia. Terminate of word.

In fact, as someone who shoots both Canon and Sony, the 80D is better than the Sony a6xxx models in many means for landscapes. First, it’south more robust. Secondly, it has a flippy screen that can be used in portrait orientation. And third, information technology can be set on a tripod with the sun in the frame, with the mirror down (not in live view) and the sensor won’t melt or melt. With a Sony, you could hands cook the sensor since at that place is no mirror protect it. Along, information technology has an excellent bombardment and can last much longer on the energy it uses because it does non crave the sensor to be reading every moment it is on. And the Canon bodies are vastly more energy efficient than the Sony a6xxx cameras by a huge margin. Lastly, the 80D can capture 14bit files in near, if non all, shooting modes without dropping to 12 bit, and information technology has lossless pinch, which Sony does non, except for the newest big $$$ model.

If y’all demand more MP from the 80D, then try stitching panoramas.

Y’all would gain zippo in the camera bodies by going to Fuji or Nikon. You would exist better off spending money on trips to take photos or if anything, go a new lens or ii for your 80D. If yous insist on a new camera brand, stay abroad from the Nikon models you lot listed. They have skillful sensors, simply their operation in alive view can be very frustrating at times and their lens selection is a pilus less stout than what Canon has.

tl;dr The Canon 80D is an awesome landscape camera!

Thank you!

I love the bombardment on the 80D. I exercise not take to think about information technology for a couple of weeks (I don’t become out and shoot every 24-hour interval). When information technology comes to the Sony a6100, I accept two additional batteries other than the original battery information technology came with. I have to continue an eye on the battery line all the time and sometimes, I use all three in one outing for wildlife photography. I have even turned off the monitor to save the battery.

I have shot sunrise and dusk using both the Canon 80D and Sony a6100/6000. I did non know the danger that can create. Don’t know if I damage them. Equally far every bit I tin tell, they seem to be ok, simply who knows.

Thanks once again for the confirmation that the 80D is a great mural camera!

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