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Pick Four Great Fuji XF Lenses for the Street Bag

Started Jun 9, 2016 | Discussions thread
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Pick Four Great Fuji XF Lenses for the Street Bag
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You are traveling to a great city abroad (Rome, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Jerusalem, Bangkok, Istanbul, or maybe even a hilltop Tuscan village). You pack your carry-on with your Fuji gear and 5 or 6 XF lenses. Your small camera bag for the street is packed in your checked suitcase. You get to the hotel. You prepare for the next day of shooting by packing your small mirrorless-type camera bag, like a Think Tank Retro 5, or something like that. You are allowed to pack 3 lenses in that bag, plus a fourth lens mounted on the camera which is around your neck.

You will walk all day and shoot street -- people, buildings, palaces, bridges, some landscape, as well as indoors in museums, churches and palaces. Street travel shooting.  Whatever gets your eye.  So besides the normal range, you need some wide capability and you also need indoor capability hand-held with no lights, so you need a fast prime or a good zoom with OIS. Assume you own all Fuji XF lenses (lucky you!)  Which four lenses do you hit the street all day with?

I know some X-Pro shooters will chose all primes. Cool. Whatever. Would anyone go out with the 100-400? Would anyone take the 90 out? I know I'm going to see a lot of 35 F2, 16-55, 18-135 type answers, and some people are going to say they would not go out with four lenses. I bet all the primes get mentioned because we all have our favorites there.  But list four lenses please. My choice is very clear. I know exactly what I need, in priority order.  This is what I did for 20 days in Rome (just got back).

1. 16 (the world's best lens)
2. 10-24 (indispensable for travel)
3. 18-55 (so small and light, so versatile, so good -- or maybe I take the 35 F2 instead)
4. 55-200 (I need reach and/or compression a few times a day)

What say you?

Greg Johnson
San Antonio, Texas
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