A good Travel Kit

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angstrom
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Re: A good Travel Kit
In reply to the bluesman, 9 months ago

As a professional travel photographer I thought I'd put my 2 cents worth in here, because personally I wouldn't take any of the lenses you've mentioned.

I haven't done the sums but I would guess that for the value of the gear you've listed you could do better with a 12-35mm, 35-100mm (if you can wait for it, otherwise the 40-150 is adequate) and a second body.

I tend to smile when people go on about fast primes for low light. A 1.4 lens was really important when colour photography meant Velvia at ISO 50. These days there's very little you can't shoot at 2.8 and ISO 3200, especially with IBIS.

How often do you REALLY want to use 1.4 just for shallow DOF? (for the other primes, the benefit of f2 or 1.8 isn't even worth talking about compared to 2.8) If you're going to end up using your primes at 2.8 or smaller, what's the point? I bought a 25 1.4, tried it and sent it back. Compared to the 12-35 its only marginally sharper at 2.8 and at f4 there's no difference. In the vast majority of my pictures I'm trying to get MORE DOF, not less.

I'm of a school of thought that says great travel images are done in close with short lenses, so if you want a third piece of glass go for the Oly 9-18 or the 7-14 if you can afford it. If 100mm isn't long enough, "in most cases" it means you're too far away: use your feet, get in close.

Have a great trip!
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