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Depends on soooo much;

Where in SA, wildlife, cities etc, etc.

The best advice is to take the one you know you can do almost everything with.

Being an South African, and I travel this country a lot,- I would not leave home without my 35 + 50mm's.

Go look on my blog and you will see that you can cover most everything with it!

I am happy to help you with advise in any way you need.

 

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I am very much a 35mm person. Still, if I had to travel to a foreign place with many different photo opportunities, I would take a 50mm lens.

 

This however would amount to gratuitious self-torture. I would forever rue the pictures I did not get because of my self-imposed hairshirt attitude. I would at least allow myself the old 'world traveller minimum' of 35+90mm. And the 90mm could very well be my well-kept and clean 1983 Tele-Elmarit (weight 240 grams). But God help me, the 35 would be my slightly heavier Summilux ASPH v.2. And at the end I would crack up and throw in a 21mm Super-Elmarit too.

 

The old man from the Age of the M2

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I'll echo those who say 35mm. Pre-M9 days I would have said 50mm, as tighter framing working close was needed. But I prefer to work a wider view for "context" which the 35 gives. Now, with the M9 and a good 35 you can (when necessary) crop to a 50 view (or tighter) and still keep amazing quality.

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I'd take the 50. There's always more in my landscapes than I want with my 35 and I end up cropping them to what would have been just about perfect with the 50. Don't know which lenses you have but I've also grown to love the results from my 50 lux a bit more than the 35 cron.

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My personal preference:

 

I always take a 50 1.4 and a 28 2.0 and I virtually never have to worry about whether I've made the right choice. Of course 21s and 90s can be wonderful, but so can anything.

 

28 & 50 will do you proud. There's hardly anything that one of those two can't handle beautifully.

 

If I had to choose just one though?

 

Fortunately, I don't.

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1 lens - 35 cron asph

2 lens (CITY / PLACES) - 28 cron asph / 50 lux (or 50 Elmar-M 2.8 if I want to keep the weight down)

(TREKKING / LANDSCAPE) - 35 cron asph / apo-telyt 135 f3.4

3 lens (most any place) - 28 cron asph / 50 lux / 90 cron

 

I tend to take more with me than I use regularly, but still end up using them all (18 through to 135) even if it's just that one shot!

 

I'm going to Mexico in a week. I imagine I'll use the 35 most of the time, but I also know that 28 / 50 and 135 will be used. 18 and 90 are my least used focal lengths.

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just came back from spain and found the 28mm sat on my camera most of the time, 50mm came second. also had 35 and 75 (dropped the 90, just never used it) and used those far less frequently. if i were to go again, 28 and 50 is probably all that i would bring.

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The OP: " ......South Africa for 4 weeks (nature, landscape, street)..."

 

By all means, pack fewer shoes and more lenses, if photography will be an important aspect of your travels. If you are simply snapping pics for the scrapbook, take the 28, 35 or 50. Or, consider skipping the M9 altogether and bring a D-Lux 5 or similar. One lens on an M9 for such a trip? Not possible! ;)

Larry

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for a 1 lens setup, I personally would take a 35mm (although i'd miss the 50mm).

 

for a 2 lenses setup, I would take the 35mm and the 50mm.

 

for me, those two would be more than enough :)

 

choosing only one i'd opt for the 35mm because the 50mm would be too limiting at various times, but that really depends on how you shoot and it could be the other way around for you.

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