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Travel lens for X-S10, 18-55 / 16-80 + prime?

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a_c_skinner Forum Pro • Posts: 13,047
Re: Travel lens for X-S10, 18-55 / 16-80 + prime?
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The 18-55 is a good choice.  Occasionally there is a bad specimen but usually, especially if stopped down a bit, it will be first class.

The 50-230 zoom is excellent for the price and weight.

So your current setup is pretty much replicated with those.

If your interest is architecture then something wider would probably be my next suggestion.  The 15-45 gets good notes, esp. at the wide end.  The 14/2.8 is first class.  I've no experience of the independent wide manual lenses.

The X-S10 takes really good pictures up to 800ISO and perfectly acceptable up to 3200, especially if you've got modern denoising software so do you need a faster lens?  You can use them to manipulate the background but few situations call for fast lenses for the light nowadays.

Finally your Olympus stuff should be capable of pretty good images.  Is your technique optimal or are your expectations excessive?  If you like your current gear and want better images looking to technique might be better value for money.

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