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Lenses for Morocco

Started Nov 29, 2019 | Discussions thread
OP maggiemole Senior Member • Posts: 1,988
Re: None Of The Above

Ray Maines wrote:

None of the above!!
Seriously, none of the lenses you mentioned will give you anything but dust on your sensor while you're changing lenses for no apparent or obvious reason.
Get either an UWA zoom (Panasonic 7-14, or Oly 9-18 are both good choices on the used market) or a fast, short prime.

Thank you all for such interesting observations and choices. I should perhaps have said that for a 4-day visit I'm not prepared to buy a sooper-dooper lens that I don't have: sometimes I think I already have too many lenses.

I am taking 2 cameras and maybe even a third specifically to minimise lens changes and the dusty sensor problem. I liked the comment from one member that I didn't appear to have got my priorities in order, and I welcome that reminder! I bought the 35-100mm f2.8 because I wanted more subject separation than I get with the 14-140mm, particularly at longer focal lengths. The 14-140mm has been my travel lens for several years and I gradually came to realise that it would be nice to have some images that are not quite so flat.

I use a Tenba Messenger bag which will hold 2 bodies and 2 zooms comfortably, carried across my body. This gives me easy access.

So it's looking like:

35-100mm f2.8
20mm f1.7
which should give me adequate range and a narrow DoF. On 2 GX bodies.

the 12-32mm which would replace the 20mm on the day trip to the Atlas Mountains. I don't mind flat wide-angles. It might also be needed in the narrow alleyways in Marrakech but I wouldn't be constantly swapping lenses, one will stay on.

And I can slip the fisheye in my jacket pocket, just in case!!

I just hope it's going to have snowed by the time I travel!

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