On Sep 2, 2014, at 12:26 AM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> wrote:
> To more directly address your question - I tend to agree with Christine and > Paul. Take a minimal travel kit. > > K-3 + 12-24 [alt = 15 + 21] + 16-50 [alt = 35 macro] + 50-135 + 1.4x extender > for bird shots. Period. No backup body, no other lenses, no other camera > systems. > > I remember getting by for weeks on a vacation in England with only an > ME-Super and a 50/1.4 lens. I get enamored with the range of possibilities > inherent with the range of lenses etc, but I think I see better when I limit > my choices and spend more time looking. First, your recommendation, or should I say your practice, strikes me as imminently sensible. Second, my experience should not count for much here, since I am nowhere near the serious a photographer as those who have responded so far, but it might be of interest. That said, on my trip to England this month last year my total luggage was one carry-on suitcase, a dufflebag that I checked, and a medium-sized briefcase. My camera equipment was my *1st DS, an A 50/1.7, and an A 28/2.8, extra batteries, and a battery charger. I never used the 50/1.7. The A 28/2.8 produced a lot of decent, and some excellent, mostly landscape images during my week-long, 100-mile walk. I got along just fine with it in London as well. Obviously, I was not able to take advantage of any wildlife opportunities, but there were not many of them anyway. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] "You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon you learn something no one has learned before." - Richard Feynman -- 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.
