What Shall I Take With Me?

[beano500]

(Partly as an antedote to all our navel-gazing threads this week! :D )

OK - easy really, but then again :scratchchin:

Madeira for a fortnight. So mostly landscape, buildings around the town, sunset and sunrise, detail in the market sort of stuff...

Got the choice of:

20mm f2.8
45mm f2.8P (that "P" means it's the really small manual lens by the way)
85mm f1.8
180mm f2.8
28-70mm F2.8 Tokina ATX

(...it's on a digital, remember, so x 1.5 for "old money")

Bagged up spare batteries and CF cards and grey card and remote plip and a few filters and still got room for passport and book.

Now generally these days I'm not using the 28-70, so I'm inclined not to bother with that.

But if you were only going to take three lenses which would you pick and why?

Just interested in your ideas :D

[simpo two]

In order of priority:

1) 28-70mm F2.8 Tokina ATX for general purpose
1=) 20mm f2.8 for wide angle

2) 180mm f2.8 for longer

[beano500]

Yup - that's very logical. I didn't mention that the reason I don't use the Tokina much is that I generally find it a bit big and heavy to lug around, the 85mm is faster, yet smaller, and handy for candid shots round town...

Perhaps I should give it (the 28-70) a holiday after all.

[simpo two]

How about the 18-70mm AF-S?

[beano500]

simpo two said:

How about the 18-70mm AF-S?

Brilliant You offering to lend me one!? You know how I have a hankering for that AF-S speed!!!

[simpo two]

beano500 said:

Brilliant You offering to lend me one!? You know how I have a hankering for that AF-S speed!!!

Which fortnight? It's not impossible.

[beano500]

Only joking. No, I'm leaving tomorrow, dawn - Thiefrow by 09:00.

Should be getting the suitcase packed, but the Billingham's more important......

[rude girl]

Probably in the 'goes without saying' category, but optical cloths and a few post-it notes so that you can easily mark up which of your batteries are charged/used, and what's on the CF cards

[beano500]

Cloths and blower

Good idea about the post-its. I wouldn't have thought of being as organised as that (spoils all the fun really )

[te51cle]

Put the three larger lenses in your bag and the smallest in a coat pocket ?

[Threeracers]

It sounds like a good excuse to buy a larger Billingham!

Mark

[beano500]

Threeracers said:

It sounds like a good excuse to buy a larger Billingham! Mark

It's a 445 (IIRC), so size isn't the problem*. I can get Everything-and-the-kitchen-sink in there, just it ends up weighing a tonne! But it's handy as it's just about max carry on size (if I pretend it's only got 5 kilos of stuff!)




*I bought it some years ago, to house up to three Canon bodies and a load of lenses, flashguns, films and other gubbins, it then graduated to two Nikons and is now down to just the digital body, so it's a tad over the top, but I have a Hadley as well.....

[Threeracers]

Snap – I also have a 445 and a Hadley.

I tend to use the 445 mostly – an old battered and much loved example - but the Hadley is great for taking the bare essentials.

I also bought a 225 but I seldom use it - might be time to ebay that one.

[m1spw]

beano500 said:

Got the choice of: 20mm f2.8 45mm f2.8P (that "P" means it's the really small manual lens by the way) 85mm f1.8 180mm f2.8 28-70mm F2.8 Tokina ATX (...it's on a digital, remember, so x 1.5 for "old money" Bagged up spare batteries and CF cards and grey card and remote plip and a few filters and still got room for passport and book. Now generally these days I'm not using the 28-70, so I'm inclined not to bother with that. But if you were only going to take three lenses which would you pick and why? Just interested in your ideas

Errr...excuse me for pointing out what may be obvious, but you seem to have missed a CAMERA off that list. not sure, but I think its a kind of vital part of the set up

[beano500]

As I said, I was trying to be the antedote to all this "us and them" stuff.... ...take it as read that there's a digital body going in the bag! As we all know, the name on the front doesn't matter. It's the lens and the geek behind the viewfinder that make the difference

Now tempted to dust of the 28-70...

...I guess I may have decided by tomorrow morning!