From Left to Right: Nikon 100-400mm, 24-120mm, 14-24mm
When I first got into photography, my research to find the best lenses led to me coming across the term ‘The Holy Trinity’, this was the nickname given to 3 lenses any serious photographer needed to cover everything from ultra-wide to super telephoto. Typically, ‘The Holy Trinity’ was made up of an ultra-wide 16-35mm lens, a mid-range 24-70mm lens, and a telephoto 70-200mm lens.
Since 2021, there has been a new standard for the ‘Holy Trinity’, spanning from 14mm all the way to 400mm in just 3 lenses, without any gaps in focal lengths. The most common lenses in the new ‘Holy Trinity’ are the ultra-wide 14-24mm, the mid-range 24-105mm, and super telephoto 100-400mm.
The examples used in this article are the Nikon Z Lenses (Mirrorless), however, both Canon and Sony have their own version of ‘The Holy Trinity’, basically covering the same range.
According to the metadata in Lightroom, these 3 lenses have been used for 96% of the images I have captured over the past 24 months as a Professional Landscape Photographer. The only other lens that I use is the Nikon Z 20mm F1.8 S, this is an ultra-fast wide-angle lens that I use exclusively to photograph the Milky Way and the Northern Lights.
My Nikon ‘Holy Trinity’
As a professional landscape photographer, these 3 lenses are always in my camera bag, whether I am shooting from near my car or hiking in the mountains. You can read my reviews of each of these lenses by clicking on below:
Below are a few of the images captured using the above lenses over the past few months:
