the perfect travel kit

[philipus]

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with 35 and 75 Asph Summicrons

 

The 75mm focal length is interesting and I've been considering it for quite a while.

 

Earlier this week my wife and I visited Münster and sitting at a restaurant I realised that my current setup - the 35 FLE, 50 Asph and 90 Elmarit-M - works very well.

 

The 35 allowed me to fill the frame with people/objects at close distances while focusing on things a few metres back. Or, of course, just to capture bigger vistas.

 

The 50 let me limit the FOV to, say, a couple discussing at a table at about 4m away, plus gave excellent night-time performance with single light sources such as table candle.

 

The 90 was great for closing up and filling the frame with one person or focusing on farther-away details.

 

and even 135/1.4.

 

You mean 3.4, no? Or do you have the prototype of the much-talked-about 135mm Summilux which is expected to be launched at photokina?

Edited September 7, 2012 by philipus

[LucisPictor]

At the moment:

 

Leica M8

Voigtländer Ultron 2/28

Jupiter-3 1.5/50 (shimmed)

Leica Summitar 2/50

Leica Elmar 4/90

 

Sony NEX-7

Sony SEL 2.8/16 plus WW-converter

Sigma EX 2.8/30

(On that NEX I can also use the lenses above.)

 

That's about it. Only if I needed a tele, I'd bring a Leitz Hektor 4.5/135 or the Sony SEL 55-210.

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[toscaninifans]

are we still talking TRAVEL kit?

must be light weight and Convenient，for snapshot,

who want to keep changing lenses? my wife will kill me...

Camera Bag cant be bigger than Billingham Hadley,

for me,

M3+M2+GRD,

24/2.8+50DR+90/2.8 M,

all inside one tiny Billingham Hadley small !

[LucisPictor]

At the moment:

 

Leica M8

Voigtländer Ultron 2/28

Jupiter-3 1.5/50 (shimmed)

Leica Summitar 2/50

Leica Elmar 4/90

 

Sony NEX-7

Sony SEL 2.8/16 plus WW-converter

Sigma EX 2.8/30

(On that NEX I can also use the lenses above.)

 

That's about it. Only if I needed a tele, I'd bring a Leitz Hektor 4.5/135 or the Sony SEL 55-210.

 

Add the Voigtläner Super-Wide Heliar 4.5/15 and a 20mm viewfinder...

[pgk]

M9 + 21SEM + 35/1.4 asph (preFLE) + 50/1.4 asph - camera over shoulder with one lens, other lenses in pockets (in cheap compact camera pouches by Deuter) + 3 spare batteries and 96Gb cards (no laptop, etc.). Perfect for travel. Need to add a 21 finder;).

[jagwar.jim]

35 and 90 was always a good travel kit for film. It shouldn't change with the M9.

 

Steve,

 

Could you go into why you like those two for a travel kit? I use an M7 and have the 35mm Summicron, and I've been contemplating a 90mm. I'm interested in what people think about that particular set up, and it seems you have experience with it!

 

Thanks!

[Printmaker]

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Back in the day, it was a M4 with a 35 Summicron and a 90 Tele Elmarit in a pocket. Now it is a M9 with a 35 Summicron and a 90 Elmarit M in a Domke F5B along with two spare batteries and a bunch of cards. (I am thinking about a Fogg Harp to hold the 90/batteries/cards on my belt.)

 

If I know I'll be in one place for a while, I'll add a 50 Summicron and a flash.

[Ruhayat]

28mm Elmarit on the M4-P with T-Max 400, and 90mm Summicron on M7 with Portra 400. Nice and simple. Plus a GXR if I need digital.

[Joachim123]

Billingham bag M9

28mm 2.8

50mm 2

90mm 2.8

 

2 extra SD cards, charger lens cleaning cloth 8x20 BCA binoculars

[kivis]

A&A bag

M3 SS

Super Angulon 21/3.4 w/ Leica VF 21/28

'Cron 50/2

At least 4 rolls of film

Lens cloth

Pocket Light Meter on my Iphone

[LucisPictor]

At the moment:

 

Leica M8

Voigtländer Ultron 2/28

Jupiter-3 1.5/50 (shimmed)

Leica Summitar 2/50

Leica Elmar 4/90

 

Sony NEX-7

Sony SEL 2.8/16 plus WW-converter

Sigma EX 2.8/30

(On that NEX I can also use the lenses above.)

 

That's about it. Only if I needed a tele, I'd bring a Leitz Hektor 4.5/135 or the Sony SEL 55-210.

 

New:

 

Leica M8

Voigtländer Super-Wide Heliar 4.5/15

Voigtländer Ultron 2/28

Jupiter-3 1.5/50 (shimmed)

Leica Summitar 2/50

Leica Elmar 4/90

Voigtländer Color Heliar 2.5/75

 

Sony NEX-7

Sony SEL 2.8/16 plus WW-converter

Sigma EX 2.8/19

Sigma EX 2.8/30

 

Plus Leitz Hektor 4.5/135 or the Sony SEL 55-210.

 

All this easily fits into my Kalahari K-12 bag.

[kanzlr]

during my three week trip to Iceland I enjoyed this set:

 

Konica Hexar RF

M-Hexanons 28/2.8, 50/2 and 90/2.8

Voigtländer 15

M-Rokkor 40/2 (for hiking, where everything else was left behind)

 

Wonderful. But for our next trip I will bring an SLR for sure. Missed the (practicable) option to use gradual NDs and polarizers. For SLRs I like to bring the OM:

 

OM-4Ti, 24/2.8, 40/2 and 135/3.5, maybe a spare body

 

a small and light bag is essential. A light kit is pointless if you stuff it into a hefty LowePro or Kata. The barebones bag was nice for walks, for example.

[Megg]

Unless you are extremely tight in space and weight, a RF and Dslr should both accompany you on trip. I find both useful. However, if you only travel cities, RF is enough.

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Unless you are extremely tight in space and weight' date=' a RF and Dslr should both accompany you on trip. I find both useful. However, if you only travel cities, RF is enough.[/quote']

 

I agree with your premise as long as you agree to accompany me on my trips to carry two camera systems . Otherwise I'll keep the Dslr close to home & travel with the Leica!

[dpstyles]

I have just returned from two weeks in Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet. Every imaginable opportunity for photographs - fascinating people, monasteries, landscapes (inc. Mount Everest). I had my M9 with 50 Summilux, 28 Elmarit M, and 90 Elmarit M. They performed superbly. Never needed anything else. For the few times that the 90 wasn't enough, a little cropping in Lightroom worked wonders. I took a flash and tripod but never used them.

[thighslapper]

Just plodded through this with increasing incredulity.....

 

Do some of you employ native bearers on your holidays ????

 

Whatever I take it is always too much .... even with a body and 3 lenses I come back wondering why on earth I bothered with the 3rd.... and often 2nd.

 

More lenses = more sensor crud.... you can guarantee it.....

 

The one thing I regret not taking recently was a bottle of eclipse and some swabs in addition to a blower........ hours of happy de-spotting when I got home

[Paul J]

Walking shoes and a sense of adventure.

Local language dictionary and guide.

35mm of your choice, personally a 1.4

M of your choice

Camera Strap

Soft Bag

Plastic bag for the rain

[roydonian]

In Venice a couple of months ago I had:

 

M-9P

21 mm Elmarit

28-35-50 mm TriElmar

35 mm Summilux

90 mm Elmarit

135 mm TeleElmar

 

The only lens that was never used was the 21 mm, but was so light that I didn’t grudge the additional weight. A spare charged battery and a spare memory card were always carried, but never needed. I don’t ‘chimp’, so a fully-charged battery normally lasts for a full day’s shooting.

 

A Contax TVS digital was available as a last-ditch backup, but never left the safe in my hotel room. Also back in the hotel were the chargers for both cameras, a good stock of 4Gb Samsung cards, a rocket blower, sensor loupe, and the Arctic Butterfly.

 

Best regards,

 

Doug

[jankap]

12mm/5.6

28mm/2.8

90mm/4

Mirror 500mm/8

Perfect travel kit? Well, it worked nicely for a trip to the solar eclipse last week (Australia).

 

The 500mm normally is a difficult lens to use, but on this occasion it was excellent (2 examples).

Jan

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[robert blu]

Walking shoes and a sense of adventure.

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Plastic bag for the rain

 

I like this ...

robert