Three Lens Prime Travel Set, does this work?

FirewaterSun wrote:

I have the 12, 17, 25 and 45 Olympus primes - I'm trying to pare down lenses to reach a three lens set for travel.

I love the 25 and 45 for street shooting and portraits, but the 17 and 12 don't gel with me. The 17 seems not wide enough to capture environments, especially in tighter areas, and is kinda a half-hearted 25 - if I only had one lens, this would probably be it, but with the 25 I feel it's not really useful as it's so close.

The 12 I find super wide and can only really see a few possible uses for it. Additionally, I also own the 12-32, so if I REALLY need 12 I can also use that.

Do you think it would be quite silly to replace the 12 and 17 with a Panasonic 15 f1.7? I feel like the extra 2mm width (which is not insignificant) brings a lens that can be used as a wider photojourno-esque lens, while not being as difficult to compose with as the 12.

I have decided I'm definitely looking for either a Panasonic/Olympus prime, and ideally f2 or brighter.

TL:DR; is a 15, 25, 45 prime set feasible for travel, or am I missing out on a wider-angle lens?

One can struggle and contemplate 2-4 prime lens combinations forever. If you wind up with as many as I have, your "favorite" combination will change, often.

I carried the 12-25-45 combination with an E-P3 to Paris in 2012, BY FAR, the most used lens was the 12 and it often was not wide enough, which I knew was going to be the case. I hauled the 7-14mm f4 Zuiko and two other zooms with an Olympus DSLR outfit to Paris back in 2006.

I carry an 18-28-50-90mm combination with my full frame Leica M outfit.

When I go to White Sands National Monument in May I'll most likely head out each day with the 12-100 on my E-M1 and the M with the 18mm super wide as my most used combination, with 2-4 other lenses in a photo vest.

This will be almost exactly my planned set, so I'm really glad you're saying it works out OK for travel (I got the 1.8 Oly 25mm instead of the PL25 purely for size reasons) Thank you!

Well, I'm definitely getting a 7.5mm, whether the current Samyang or the upcoming Laowa f2, so UWA is covered at any rate.

Have been in Paris a couple of times and definitely did not need a 12, so hopefully this just means that we would shoot different pictures - thus meaning a 15 might be enough for me!
Thanks for sharing your experiences!