DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

South America / Rainforest trip - lens selection

Started Apr 29, 2016 | Discussions thread
lsanto Forum Member • Posts: 89
Re: South America / Rainforest trip - lens selection
1

The most important thing to me would be a second body. Not only as a backup, but to avoid changing lens.  Protecting the sensor is a real necessity in most of those places.

I never visited Peru but I've been in the Amazon forest, Atacama and Patagonia. Long glass is more important then fast glass, I would say. Below the canopy in Amazon is very dark,  so it's high ISO anyway. The 55-200 should be enough. Count on bad weather, even in august, so I would take the 16-55 instead of the 18-55. Not a large weight difference, in my opinion.

Regards

 lsanto's gear list:lsanto's gear list
Fujifilm FinePix X100 Canon EOS 7D Fujifilm X-Pro1 Fujifilm X-E2 +1 more
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow