city photography advice

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city photography advice
Oct 26, 2010

I'm heading to Barcelona in a few weeks time for work but should have a little bit of time to enjoy some photography at the weekend and evenings. However, I'm struggling to decide what gear to take with me. I was hoping that some more experienced photographers could offer some advice. Here's what I've got as options and my initial thinking on the matter. I'd like to travel light - not more than 2 lenses ideally.

bodies:
k100d and kx

current thinking:

  • just take the kx, no need for 2 bodies.

lenses

  • sigma 10-20

  • da l 18-55

  • da 50-200

  • k24/2.8

-fa35/2

  • m50/1.7

  • m85/2

  • k135/2.5

  • tokina 20-35/2.8

  • tokina 28-70/2.8

current thinking:

  • take the sigma 10-20 ultrawide and just add one lightweight telephoto, either m50, m85 or da 50-200. Although its really hard deciding which. I was hoping that this combination would allow some nice wide shots of the city plus some close-ups of details or arty dof shots.

tripod

  • velbon cheap and cheerful.

current thinking:
leave it at home and buy a gorilla pod for some lightweight flexibility

what would you take and why ?

Oliver

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