Eric, I just took a trip this past August to the Canyon/Four corners area. Our trip was a family vacation, not photo safari, so I wanted to pack light, too. I brought one lens, a 17-70. Which was fine -- I used the wide end a good bit of the time -- but there were several times I wished I'd brought a longer lens. (We saw a mountain lion and a California condor!) And think about bringing a tripod. We first entered the park at sunset -- which was SPECTACULAR. I was totally kicking myself for leaving my lightweight tripod at home... it would have been great to do some longer exposures at sunset. Oh well.
I had even thought about getting one of those super-zooms, like 28-200, but never did. Maybe that's an option if you can really only bring one? Have a great trip... it's an amazing place! -c On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 9, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: > >> You may be surprised what the *sense* of compression from a long lens will >> do for landscapes like that. There are good, reasonably-priced 100-300 >> range zooms out there. I have an old Tokina 35-200 that is quite sharp but >> they sell really cheap, probably because they don't focus close at all. So >> they're great for distance work, and The Canyon would be a great place to >> use one. (They often go for <$25 on eBay and have the "A" setting for ease >> of use.) > > Thanks, Colin. As I say, I'm open to suggestions, but you can glean my > initial thoughts about this from some of my other responses. > > I've listed my long lenses in another response. And KEH is right here. I'd > prefer not to buy a lens for this trip -- in addition to being an amateur I'm > poor -- but maybe I could pick up something useful in this situation cheaply. > I'll take a look. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
