Camera kit for three weeks in Europe.

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Hugh J wrote:

I guess you don't have much travel experience, so I hate to tell you this, but most hotel room safes aren't the size of bank vaults. They're usually little shoebox-sized things, with an electronically locked door, that are designed to hold documents and other small valuables, and they're definitely not going to fit your gear.

Some of the better hotels might have a main safe behind the front desk, but to have to make the staff put up with you and your gear, as well as the time wasted lining up behind other guests checking in or out in order to deposit or retrieve gear... I don't know about you, but that's not my idea of being on vacation.

Looking forward to getting lots of great shots.

Not likely to happen, considering how much time and effort you're diverting to juggling gear rather than doing actual photography. It tends to be an inverse relationship.

Were I in your position, all I would need is one body with a 20/1.7.

+1

After having lived 6+ years in hotels and having travelled with Canon EOS 5 (film) with two L lenses, later Nikon FM3a with 28/50/135mm lenses, then Konica Hexar I am now exteemly happy to carry around just my Panasonic GM5 with the Panasonic 14-42 II lens. With Ex Tele it gets me an extension from 42 to 60mm and 14-60 is perfect for travel. It only moves about 5 mm when zooming which is not noticeable.

As a tourist you finish up being only in all the same tourist spots where thousands of others before you have taken exactly the same picture.

Travelling is about seeing places, experiencing the culture / environment and taking the odd picture as a memory. Less gear is more.

It is like all those tourists in the Louvre taking a picture of the Mona Lisa - what are they thinking?

Regarding hotel safes - all the staff know the bypass code plus hardly anything will fit in there.