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Subject: [Leica] Vacation Camera Lenses: What did NOT work?
From: luisripoll at telefonica.net (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Sun Oct 12 12:12:12 2008
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Tina,

Interesting you take both 35....

On my vacations near Barcelona I take all, but when I do a trip, last  
was to N.Y. in 2005 I've taked 2 M and 21, 35/2, 50/1,4, 75/1,4, and I  
think (not sure) the actual Elmar 2,8/50 Coll.

Saludos cordiales
Lluis


El 11/10/2008, a las 21:08, Tina Manley escribi?:

> At 03:42 PM 10/11/2008, you wrote:
>> Interesting question.
>
> It varies for different trips.  For general vacation, when I hope to  
> take enough stock photos to pay for the trip ;-) , I take about what  
> I took to the Grand Canyon last week.  12/5.8, 24/2.8, 35/2.0,  
> 35/1.4, 75/1.4, 90/2.0.  I carried the DR 50, forgetting that I  
> couldn't use it on the M8. I also took the 135 Hektor and the  
> Visoflex attachments, thinking that I might do some close-ups of  
> flowers, etc., down at Phantom Ranch, but it was too dark by the  
> time I got down there and still dark when I left the next morning!!   
> For the rest of the trip, the wind was way too strong for any close- 
> up work so I carried all of that stuff for nothing.  Sometimes that  
> happens but I'd rather carry it and not need it than need it and not  
> carry it!  I do find that I carry wider lenses in general with the  
> M8 than with film cameras.  I don't carry anything longer than a 90  
> usually unless I'm going on safari with my R lenses.
>
> Tina (at the farm recovering from the red-eye flight from Flagstaff!)
>
>
> Tina Manley
> www.tinamanley.com
>
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