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Gx85 for Travel?

Started Mar 18, 2017 | Discussions thread
wrbluepearl Regular Member • Posts: 120
Re: Gx85 for Travel?

I'm now settled on the 12-35 f/2.8 Lumix, taking advantage of the Dual-IS connection with the GX85, with the 15mm PanaLeica as the backup back in the hotel. As I've posted recently I've even spent two weeks in Paris and Dublin with just the 15mm and never much thirsted for another focal length.

I have to add that my wife and my travel trips in our later years have been, luckily, principally to very urban locations in European cities and towns and long lenses have not been particularly useful. My practice on trips over the last ten years had been to take three, then two lenses on a trip, plan each day's touring and select just the lens most suitable for the day's touring, e.g., museums, churches, historic sites, etc.

Spent a week in Italy last year with my G7, the 12-35 f/2.8 and the 14-140 II.  I have to agree with Jim here - I'd buy a 12-35 and take one of the GX8s you already have.  I did use the 14-140 on that trip, but all of the "keepers" - the really memorable photos of Rome (Coloseo, Pantheon, the Vatican, etc.) - were all shot with the 12-35.

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