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Best lenses for cruise/ vacation Istanbul, Myconos, Valetta, Pompei & Rome

Started Jun 13, 2015 | Discussions thread
OP Pietro Marchesi Regular Member • Posts: 266
Re: Inside Hagia Sophia with 400mm

FD wrote:

Pietro Marchesi wrote:

Great shot Peter!

400mm f5.6 at 1/10s?? Is it the new 100-400f/4.5-5.6L IS? Love the details with your 400mm inside Hagia Sophia. It proves me right bringing my 70-200f/4 L IS for exactly this use indoors.

I fell for the pressure of good advice here and just bought a EF16-35f/4L IS and I will bring 16-35/4, 24-70f/2.8L and 70-200f/4L IS. I will carry all three the first days. It will be interesting to se what lens gets the most use 16-35 or 24-70?

How was it and could you make the images you wanted ?

I've been in Lissabon for 5 days and made some images with my plastic 50SX and G7X
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bigwade/sets/72157655904183196
The set is not ready yet, but hey, just follow

It was my first cruise (Emerald Princess) and I am more than happy with the cruise and my 3 lenses! The 16-35f/4L IS was my most used lens perfect in many occasions outside and even more inside were IS really made a difference. I used my 70-200f/4L IS a lot more than i could imagine and only a few times wished for a longer lens. The 24-70f/2.8L was used a lot less than I thought mainly due to lack of IS.

My preliminary estimate of % lens used:

45% 16-35f/4L IS

35% 70-200f/4L IS

20% 24-70f/2.8L

Lesson learned: Bringing all 3 lenses was mostly redundant, better to bring 1 or 2 lenses.

1 lens: 24-70f/2.8L

2 lenses: 16-35f/4L IS and 70-200f/4L IS

Thanks again!

PS

Now I have over 4500 photos to process and as a not very happy, marooned Apple Aperture user I first have to decide on moving to LR6 or C1 Pro. Subscription is out of the question and I am afraid that Adobe will not offer any more stand alone version after LR6. I really do not want to be abandoned by a RAW/DAM software again! C1 Pro is first on my list. I will download a 30 day trial this or next weekend.

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Best Regards
Pietro M
Stockholm

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