On Apr 8, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: > But seriously - trip of a lifetime to some place you may never go > again? Why limit yourself so strictly? Bring a few lenses and have > fun with it - or maybe just leave the camera at home???
I went to Salamanca, Spain in 1999 on a business trip. No real time for doing "serious" photography, and a packed bag and schedule for a week of touring and giving presentations in 9 cities around Europe. I thought of taking the Leica M and three lenses ... when will I ever get back to Salamanca? ... but decided that I just couldn't lug the additional stuff along. I took just my teensy little Contax Tix with its excellent Zeiss wide-normal lens, and a dozen rolls of film. Some of my favorite pictures of the past ten years were made with that camera, on that trip. I did night shots in the square, people work, scenics, all kinds of stuff ... in Salamanca, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Stockholm, Frankfurt, and London. I never regretted having only that camera along: it's size and weight meant that I had it with me virtually all the time and could always be ready for that great moment, and the quality of its lens shone in all the photos I made with it. Sometimes, limitations and a lack of equipment choices to distract us begets more creativity and better photographs. I still often carry just one prime lens when I'm out shooting. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
