Two lens choice for trek? Apology in advance for asking such a question :-)

[david strachan]

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One lens, one camera;enjoy the walk with your wife and the group.

You'll delay and irritate otherwise.

 

Mark, you do plenty of camera shoots...don't make hobbies work, keep it a hobby, and get refreshed.

 

Perhaps no camera for one day...

 

Enjoy the walk..

Edited February 8, 2018 by david strachan

[erl]

With all due respect to David, above, suffer for your craft, take everything and offload the heavy stuff to the 'packhorse' ( ) . You may not get another chance to shoot whatever, so have the right gear with you!! 

 

Enjoy the walk (again) through you pictures, but only if you take them. Never look at an image a say, 'if only I had had my .......... lens for that'.

 

I can hear the incoming already.

[abrewer]

Take the 35 Summilux

 

Enjoy the walk

[Mark II]

Perhaps the radical suggestion of no camera and no lens?

 

Seriously, why not leave the gear at home? Take a small notebook and pen and record the things that would have made a picture you would have liked, and what you would need to take that picture.

 

The pictures that you want to make should drive your choice - rather than the gear you carry or other photographers ideas as to what might be best.

[jmahto]

Perhaps the radical suggestion of no camera and no lens?

 

Seriously, why not leave the gear at home? Take a small notebook and pen and record the things that would have made a picture you would have liked, and what you would need to take that picture.

 

The pictures that you want to make should drive your choice - rather than the gear you carry or other photographers ideas as to what might be best.

And don't forget to write down the lens choice and would be EXIF info in the notepad.

[Exodies]

Extreme pre-visualisation

[erl]

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Extreme pre-visualisation

Reminds me of the time the Moroccan CIA (forgot their real name) 'confiscated' (stole) my 50 rolls of travel films shot in Morocco,  back in 2006, after I had landed in Paris. I have been practicing 'Extreme pre-visualization' of those shots ever since. I wonder what really happened to them?

 

Note to Mark: Not having any pics is really bad.

[NigelG]

Heretical I know but if I'm on a serious walking trip with my wife where 'every gram counts' and I don't want to annoy her/a guide 'fiddling' to take pictures - I don't take either of my Ms.....

The bodies are too heavy for a start whichever lenses you choose (I pack much less than 7kg....) and I want to have the camera hanging off me ready to go without the faff of cases/stopping to access a backpack/changing a lens etc and I also don't want to sweat about bashing a rockface/bush etc with such an expensive piece of kit.

I accept a compromise in ultimate image quality/flexibility in order to enjoy the (hiking) experience much more. YMMV.

I'm happy with a fixed 28mm - stitching for wider and cropping to 35/40 ish for environmental portraits (I also want a camera others can use to take pics of me/us without a tutorial). A Q would be great but I don't have one and use a Ricoh GR instead. 245g magnesium body, tiny batteries, 28 equv. ASPH matched to a 16.2 mp apsc no-filter sensor shooting DNG raw.

Yes I'd rather have an M and my 21 SEM sometimes, or my 50 lux (my pick for a 2 lens set to answer your actual question....) but I'd want someone else to carry them......

[Ernstk]

Ricoh GR is an amazing little camera. And quality not far off Leica standards...

 

Ernst

[Peter H]

One of the best sightseeing holidays I ever had was when I deliberately left my camera at home. And maybe because of that, my memories of it are unusually vivid.

[MarkP]

Thanks to everyone for the avalanche of suggestions and good advice.

Very much appreciated.  Took me a while to work through them all.

 

I photograph because I can't draw or paint.  No way I'm going without a camera.

 

I have all of the lenses suggested including a 75 and the 90 Macro-Elmar.  I tend to shoot wide rather than long so if it's only two lenses, 50 is as long as I'd take in this situation. I often use 21 or 24 for landscapes so I 'm also quite comfortable wiht these FLs. I just think that 50 and 28 aren't quite wide enough.

 

There is a quiet day when I'll have time to wander and concentrate on some photography. So I will definitely take a second lens.

 

I need to digest all the suggestions so will get back soon. At this stage thinking 35 & 21 may be better for the outdoors, or perhaps 50 & 24 (going just a bit wider than 28).  I need at least one fast lens. That may well change..... 

 

 

 

Edited February 8, 2018 by MarkP

[MarkP]

 

 

Perhaps the radical suggestion of no camera and no lens?

Nah :-)

Seriously, why not leave the gear at home? Take a small notebook and pen and record the things that would have made a picture you would have liked, and what you would need to take that picture.

I can't draw and my writing is illegible at the best of times - occupational hazard (medico). If it was easy to scout out with a pen and pad and then come back I'd do that. Exactly what I do when I scout out and plan for my night photography.

The pictures that you want to make should drive your choice - rather than the gear you carry or other photographers ideas as to what might be best.

Agreed, which is exactly why this is not a question I've asked before as I've always known what I want to take - hence the title of the thread. Nevertheless I am interested in the opinions and thoughts of others here as they may clarify my own ideas.

 

Regards,

Mark

[mdemeyer]

Since you have a “photography day” in the agenda that favors bringing enough to support that activity. For me that would speak to the 24/3.8 and either a 50/1.4 or, since mine is silver and heavy, the 50/2.0 v5. The is little that can’t be done with that kit and either some stitching or cropping.

[Donzo98]

I would buy a Q... and take only that. Amazing camera!

 

If that’s not in the plan... just the 35 FLE.

[MarkP]

I would buy a Q... and take only that. Amazing camera!

 

If that’s not in the plan... just the 35 FLE.

Thanks for the suggestion but my gripe with the Q is the progressively cropped sensor to 35 and 50mm. I might as well just put a 28 on the M10 and crop in post.

Edited February 9, 2018 by MarkP

[Tailwagger]

I find this an interesting discussion, as really I think its something we all go through to some degree every time we go out to shoot.  I suppose its a conundrum as a result of having opted for the piety imposed by prime lenses.  Its not unusual, whenever I'm out hunting new ground for something interesting that I think 'damn I wish I had brought the...'   I suspect that on a trip such as this and armed with only a two lens kit, regardless of the focal lengths chosen, many such moments are unavoidable. For sanity's sake, I'd suggest it's best to accept that no matter how well equipped or prepared one might be there will always be misses, some gut wrenchingly so.  Therefore, my advice would be to take the two lenses you love the most, the ones you know the best, the ones you always seem more inclined to admire the results from.  In that way, what you do bring home has the best chance of making up for what you didn't.

Edited February 9, 2018 by Tailwagger

[jdlaing]

MATE

[david strachan]

MATE

You said that before...mate.

 

cheers...

 

 

BTW...i'm still waiting for a pic of your oil pumps...

Edited February 9, 2018 by david strachan

[james.liam]

You said that before...mate.

 

cheers...

 

 

BTW...i'm still waiting for a pic of your oil pumps...

 

 

Because the MATE is most worthy of repeating. 

 

Listen to 'jdlaing', because after all, Texas in now exporting oil to the Middle East, so they must know a thing or two down there. 

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[david strachan]

I'm aware of global energy issues. I've explored for petroleum. And worked on rigs.

 

But now it's getting OT...that means Off Topic.

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Edited February 9, 2018 by david strachan