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Light setup for hike X-E4 with 14 2.8 or 16 2.8?

Started Jul 15, 2021 | Discussions thread
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Re: Light setup for hike X-E4 with 14 2.8 or 16 2.8?
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I've no idea why people take primes when hiking, and I've done more than my fair share. In my experience you can't beat a standard zoom if you're travelling light, no need to change lenses and wide to normal telephoto are covered. The other obsession seems to be wider than usual with fast apertures, again, I have no idea why, if you're at any kind of altitude telephoto is far more useful for interesting shots. Wide angle shots with no foreground interest are just so bland and uninteresting and make anything of actual interest smaller and more distant, each to their own I guess, but I just don't get it.

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