What Godders says is valid. On a couple of short business trips to Paris and Madrid I took only a Leica iiif RD and a 50mm Summicron. The resulting photos ended up in a gallery, and I've sold quite a few of them. It was fun. But on a vacation, I'd still opt for a DSLR and a zoom. Or two zooms. Or three primes. Paul On Apr 8, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > 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.
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