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Hiking in national parks, lens suggestions?

Started Dec 31, 2015 | Discussions thread
howardfuhrman Veteran Member • Posts: 4,153
Re: Hiking in national parks, lens suggestions?

I see that you that you will be on hikes that are up to 2 -3 days in duration and in addition to your photo gear, you may have many other things to haul food, water, tent, sleeping bag, etc. I recently visited the Living Desert Zoo in the desert in Southern California. We walked around for about 3 hours. I took too much: GX8, Pan 7-14, Pan 100-300, 20, 30 macro and a Oly 45 1.8. While my back pack did not include everything that you need to carry, after 3 hours, I was thinking that in the future I would like to cut the weight.  Bear on mind, you are probably much younger and more fit than me and you should take weight of your gear into consideration.

On my visit to the zoo, I used all the 100-300 and the 45mm lenses.

If I was you, I would take  the LX100 which covers the 24-75mm focal lengths and a telephoto for wildlife and two or three spare batteries for each camera. I would leave the 45-200 at home - I personally never liked the lens and gave the lens to my son.

I suggest that enjoying your trip be of the highest priority and taking lots of great photos be "icing on the cake".

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