At 8:02 PM -0400 10/23/06, Jerome wrote:
On the same issue of travel and gear ... I plan to go to China at some point
for 2 / 3 weeks.
I have a 50 1.8 / 70-200 f4 / 17-40 f4 / 18-55 all for a 20D (and a rebel
film camera)
I am tempted to not take the 70-200 and the 18-55 and bring simply the 20D +
17-40 and the 50 (plus I plan to add a 430 or 580 before the trip).
Has anyone traveled to that part of the world and missed not having a 70-200
or brought one and never used it?
I was there last spring for a month. Some pictures:
http://archiphoto.com/Various/China/index.htm
I took a 5D & 350D with 12-24 Sigma, 24-105, 24/1.4 and 70-300DO.
In order of importance for my type of shooting on this trip, the
24-105 was first, the 12-24 second, the 24/1.4 and the 70-300 last.
The main reason I didn't use the 70-300 much was that it was
generally so hazy/smoggy/foggy that you had a hard time seeing
further than 2 blocks.
We were 4 days on the Yangtse in the 3 Gorges, and sometimes it was
so hazy that you could see one bank or the other, but never both.
My preference with a 20D would be the 10-22 and 17-85IS, with
possibly something like the 35/2 (or in my case, the 24/1.4) for low
light/movement. With the high ISO capability of the 20D you might be
able to dispense with that. The last shot in the above series is in
Shanghai, from the Bund, standing in a massive crowd, handheld at
1/4sec.
A year ago I went to Japan for a bit and took the 20D with the above
three lenses plus the 70-300DO, and used all but mostly the shorter
ones. I felt I had taken exactly the right stuff.
Mostly, though, you know how you shoot and what you feel comfortable
carrying. In the 80's I used to take 2 Nikons with 4 lenses (up to
400) plus 2 Leicas and 4 lenses on vacations, and carried it all just
about every day. I did it again and again, and didn't mind all the
stuff. In the 90's I hiked in Nepal with 4 cameras (including 2 MF)
and 7 lenses up to 5000m and was fine with it.
There were images I wanted to be able to get in each case, and I knew
that carrying the stuff would be worth it for me.
Some people are fine to go on a trip of 4 weeks with a Leica and 35mm
lens and 200 rolls of Tri-X, because they know that and that alone is
what they want to shoot with.
You decide.
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