Hi Pentax lovers some times ago I told you that I will take every tourist tour a friend of mine offers at. www.bestofswitzerlandtours.ch to the Swiss alps to take some photographs for her for her business brochures and prospects.
I was asking here, what equipment I should carry and used the following equipment on my first excursion to a chocolate factory of Munz in Flawil, then up to Mt. Saentis and later to the city and state of Appenzell (8.5 hours) : Pentax SFXn with Pentax zoom A35-70mm polarizer Pentax P30 with the Pentax A24mm Pentax UV filter Pentax AF280T Monopod Pentax A70-210mm zoom in the bag I used 2 Superia ISO 200 and 2 ISO 100 and 1 ISO 400 film partly Sadly we where a bit in a hurry all the time and I could not take photographs inside the chocolate factory. It was a wonderful sunny day but a bit hazy on Mt. Saentis. I was sitting next to the driver in a Minibus and thanks to the big panorama front window, I could take some shoots with the small zoom during the drive through the states of Thurgau and , St. Gallen and Appenzell. I did not use the 70-210mm zoom at all on this first trip and could have left the monopod at home too. But I will take a real tripod with me on the next excursion hoping to have some more time on the mountain for a real snow walk and some panorama shots. I had some use for the flash in the bright sunlight for people portraits. Maybe I will exchange the small Pentax A35-70mm zoom for a 50mm and 28mm prime to gain some more light with ISO 100 film on the next tour. I will get the prints in 2-3 days and will post some shots. A young Canon digital user from Asia sat next to mine in the bus busy taking pictures of his girlfriend. I took some photos of him with her in Appenzell and he really liked the small Pentax P30 and its look totally ignoring the ugly SFXn :-) It was a wonderful day being tourist in my lovely homeland. greetings Markus
