"Best" Complement to 24STM for Light Travel

gimp_dad wrote:

MMACory wrote:

For a do-it-most travel kit when wanted to keep it really light and no major wildlife duty which would you say would "best" complement the 24mm STM pancake lens on a crop sensor - 50 1.8 STM, 60mm macro or 85 1.8? 2.8 is usually enough in most cases and a main job for the longer lens would be for nice people shots.

I really love the 24STM!

Personally I would switch it up between the 85 and the 10-18, and then see which one delivers more images you enjoy by looking through your library over the next several trips.

My guess is you will just use the 24 80% of the time. But the experiment will tell you if you find more interesting wide/ultra wide or more tele photos. I like shooting action and wildlife but that is usually a dedicated situation rather than being unplanned. For more general travel, I think I want tele but end up taking better shots with wide.

It's funny, I just came back from France, where I brought the 6D with the 16-35F4L, the 40mm pancake, and the 24-105 F4. While the pictures from the 16-35 are gorgeous, I found that the 40mm shots were just as nice- and I preferred the quality to those of the 24-105. More and more I'm tempted to travel with the UW zoom, a middle prime, and a tele (in my case the 70-300L, for you, maybe the 55-250?).

Just my take on travel photos. And it sure is nice to leave the heavy lenses in the hotel and bop around with the little lens!