Camera kit for three weeks in Europe.

Alcec and Michael,

I'll join with the many others stressing traveling light and enjoying the sights with minimal gear distractions. The "tri-cities" of Budapest, Prague and Vienna are a fine combination. If you have some interest in World War II, these cities all played very different parts, e.g., some were occupied, some were not, and following the war, all were occupied, but not not always in the same ways. And, in the unlikely event you may be an old-film buff, Vienna is the location of The 3rd Man (named by the British Film Institute as the greatest British film of the 20th Century) and the huge Ferris wheel in the Prater Part, a dramatic setting in the film and well woth the historic ride.

If one is a male and not yet expended all the traveling wardrobe budget, I'd suggest a few pairs of hidden, zipped pocket security trousers from TravelSmith or Magellan; they can supplant wallets altogether.

And, for photo equipment, I carried a Nikon D80 and just one lens, a 16-85 with IS, and in those cities I found I very rarely shot <18mm or >70mm. With my current travel kit, a GX85, 15mm Summilux and 12-35mm f/2.8 Panasonic I can easily cover the same ground for in-city images. When possible, I plan each day's tourist outings and really think about the likely need for changing lenses, aiming to mount and leave one lens on the body for the day's shooting, obviating lens changes, dust. camera dropping on cobblestones, etc. In fact, a couple of years ago I traved to and around Paris and Ireland with just a GX7 and the 15mm and never missed anything wider or longer.