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Subject: [OM] An interesting holiday finding
From: "Daniel J. Mitchell" <DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:30:24 -0600
 So I'm just back from two weeks wandering around the UK, and I noticed the
following things:

 1. My 'lens cap' was a 24/2. This is wide enough to let me take shots of
buildings without winding up walking backwards into the other side of the
road, fast enough to be usable inside (especially for shots in museums et al
-- same thing re: getting far enough away applies there), small enough to
fit in a neverready case, and focuses close enough that I can take
reasonable shots of plants and suchlike; it's not a macro lens, but see
point 3. (and there were a distressing number of times I wanted a shift
lens.. sigh)

 2. Other than the 24/2, I only really used the 65-200/4 zoom -- I don't
seem to take many 'travel' shots in the range between 24 and 100 or so. Not
sure why, but I certainly noticed it. I had some other lenses along, but
they didn't get a lot of use; in particular, I may as well not have brought
the 35/70 at all, which is weird because that was the one I was expecting to
use the most. 

 3. Changing lenses = pain in the ass. Carrying lots of lenses around = pain
in the ass. I carried a macro lens with me, but hardly used it -- for just
general wandering around and taking shots, I'll never use it. If I'm going
to botanical gardens or something, sure, but 990f the time I didn't miss
it at all. Ditto with the superwide 17mm lens I had along -- the 24mm is
wide enough to be 'very wide', and the 17mm just went a bit too far. 

 
 In the end, though, I think I could get away with a travel kit of just the
24/2 and 65-200. The 50/1.4 I brought was useful for taking shots at the
juggling convention where it's just gym lighting, so I needed a pretty hefty
blue filter to get the colour right and thus all the speed I could get, but
that's pretty specialised.
 
 -- dan


 


 

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