D-SLRs For The Landscape

Choose the best camera for your landscape photography

By Staff

Published August 1, 2008

Large-format landscape artist Ansel Adams once described his 35mm camera as “an extension of the eye as used freely in the hand.” And the late Galen Rowell, a world-class mountaineer and landscape photographer, did most of his amazing work with 35mm SLRs, again for the freedom they provided.

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