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90mm f2 or 55-200mm for travel photography?

Started Sep 5, 2019 | Questions thread
rwbaron Forum Pro • Posts: 14,345
Re: 90mm f2 or 55-200mm for travel photography?

Lens selection is more about your style of photography, your vision and how you see shots. Some people wouldn't carry anything longer than 50mm and prefer a 28 or 35mm FoV or even wider for their vision. I see shots with compression and isolation of subjects and therefore always want a longer FL with me. For the way I shoot, the 90, though a gorgeous lens, would be far too limiting for my needs so hands down the 55-200.

The 50-140 would probably serve my needs too but only with the 1.4X otherwise it would be too short for me. When I was in my 30's and 40's it was 3 Canon f2.8L zooms but I was also a slave to my kit which is no fun on vacation and irritated my wife. One reason I switched from Canon to Fuji was for the smaller, lighter kit for travel and the 50-140 goes against the grain in that sense so no doubt the 55-200 for me which is a great value and a very good lens.

My travel kit is the 10-24, 18-55 and 55-200 with my X-T20 as the primary and my X-T2 as backup that stays at the hotel unless problems develop with the 20. For me it's all about small, light and unobtrusive not drawing attention to myself as much as possible when out shooting.

Bob

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