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Subject: Re: [OM] Travel kit questions
From: Thomas Heide Clausen <T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 03:03:51 +0200
Dan,

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:03:26 -0600
"Daniel Mitchell" <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Fairly soon, I'll be leaving Auckland, and need to trim stuff down
>  --
> current plans for travel kit:
> 
>  OM2S, 24/2, 65-200/4, 35-70/3.5-4.5, 50/1.4, and XA, generic zoom
> point+shoot for my wife as pocketable cameras for wandering around,
> ultrapod, slik compact tripod, cable release.

My travel-dogma goes roughly like this, after way too many
experiences of lugging along a stuffed back I never get to use:

        two camerabodies, three lenses

of which one of the bodies is a designated hotel-backup, unless I
*know* that I will need to shoot both b/w and slides. I also almost
always end up carrying only two of the lenses, leaving the third at
the hotel for "those moments" where I know I will need it.

It's tuff, being a zuikoholic and wanting to bring it all, but it
does allow me to enjoy the traveling a bit more.

In your case, I'd just simply skip the zoom 35-70 and possibly the 50
-- the remaining 65-200 is "close enough" to the 50, I think. But,
hey, you may have specific plans for your travels, calling for e.g.
the /1.4 (indoor, in caves, at night, or some such thing).


> 
>  Things I'm not bringing; 55/2.8 macro lens, 17/3.5 super-wide,
>  500/8,
> flash, filters, spare OM10 body. I've used all of those on the trip
> so far, but at this point I need to trim weight down, and, looking
> at the lenses I've used _often_, it's the four above. Filters I'm
> sure are great, and they don't weigh much, but in practise I just
> never think to use them..
> 

Think "circular polarizer". I never leave home without one. Try to
coordinate you lens-setup such that they all take the same
filter-size.

>  That's still quite a lot -- any suggestions for further trimming?

I'd say toss the 35-70, the 50 and the XA, leaving you with one body,
two lenses.

>  It's
> probably the 50/1.4 that'd be the next one to go; while I've found
> it really useful for taking shots inside where there's less light
> and I can't set up tripods or the like, I've used the 35-70 a lot
> more often as a walkaround lens, and that way there's no obvious
> duplication.
> 
>  The alternative is to ditch the 35-70 in favour of the 50/1.4 and
>  learn to
> zoom with my feet.. In some ways, I like that as a reasonably fast
> three lens kit, but the flexibility for tweaking cropping in the
> viewfinder with the 35-70 is nice, too.
> 

It's sorta hard to know what to advice, when not knowing what you
intend on doing. If you are going bird-watching, for example, leaving
the 500 at home is probably a wrong choise :)

My generic travel kit is typically: 24/2, 55/1.2, 135/2.8 (or, when
weight/size really is an issue: 24/2.8, 85/2, 135/3.5), and I tend to
use the 135mm only sparsely. I prefer primes, in general, but that's
probably just a matter of habit.

If I go "city-walking", the kit is often simply the 28-48/4 and
nothing more.

>  Maybe I should just take all four, suffer a month of extra weight,
>  and post
> whichever one I haven't used back home separately..
> 

For how long will you be going? Look at it this way: your
four-lens-kit would only just weight the same as the body (no
optics), were you using a C*n*n Wunderbrick :) And lugging a lot of
gear around makes for good physical exercise too :)

--thomas


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