What kind of digital camera do I need for shooting landscapes?

What kind of digital camera do I need for shooting landscapes?

Mark Comon (Vice President, Paul's Photo, Torrance, CA) gives expert video advice on: What kind of digital camera do I need if I'm a novice shooter?; What kind of digital camera do I need for shooting sports?; What kind of digital camera do I need for shooting portraits? and more...

You really need a camera that has a low ISO, high resolution, and a fairly wide-angled lens. So, on your compact cameras, I recommend a high-quality one, with like a 28/100 or 28/135 lens. You really want to avoid the big zoom lens cameras because the resolution – the picture quality is generally a little less from those when you're going for the big zoom range. One of the SLR's with a high-quality lens would probably be a good choice as well for landscape photography. If you really want to get into landscape photography, spend the money, and buy one of the upper-level SLR's. If you want National Geographic quality or pictures you can hang and frame and put up on the wall, you've got to have a 10-12-16 megapixel camera, with the high-quality – the Canon L-Glass or the Nikon ED-Glass to get that professional, quality picture – because that's what it's gonna take.