[Leica] Northern Lights Trip

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

The Leica Q might have tempted me if the price was reasonable. At that
price, for me at least, it is a no go. Might as well put in some extra tosh
and buy the Fuji or Hasselblad mirrorless semi MF mirrorless offerings!

Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 6:15 AM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:

> That is very interesting.  My walking-around outfit is a Fuji XE-2 with a
> 23mm 1.4.  I have a Duluth "tradesman's" vest with the 56mm 1.2 in one
> pocket and the 14mm 2.8 in another.  At the hotel I have another Fuji body
> and a 35mm 1.4 as a backup.  I use the 23mm and the 14mm about 75% of the
> time...maybe I should sell a kidney and look into the Leica Q.  Just one
> little package to lug around.
>
> Ken
>
>
> On 12/11/2017 9:49 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>
>> That hardly constitutes as traveling light!
>>
>> My usual lightweight kit is Fuji XE-1 with the 56mm f1.2 (85mm equivalent)
>> and the Fuji X100S, which has a fixed 23mm f2 lens (35mm equivalent). If I
>> need to photograph a wide angle view, I will just take a multi frame
>> panorama, that is all. This pretty much lets me do what I want, except
>> shoot action/wildlife, with a backup body, to boot!
>>
>> If I replace the X100S with the X100F, then the batteries are common with
>> the rest of the X series as well, which further reduces the mess we have
>> to
>> carry!
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 3:56 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> PESO:
>>>
>>> One of the items on our bucket list is to see and photograph the Northern
>>> Lights.  We have planned a 25 day trip through Norway and Sweden
>>> beginning
>>> January 24 until February 17.  It is going to be cold and dark.  We will
>>> stay in a cabin on an island some of the time, but there are a lot of
>>> transfers from boat to bus to train all along the way.
>>>
>>> In a nutshell, we need to travel with as little luggage as possible.
>>> Right
>>> now, I plan to just carry my SL with the two SL lenses that I have 24-90
>>> and 50/1.4.  I have the M to L converter and a couple of M lenses and
>>> the R
>>> to L converter and couple of R lenses.  Battery charger, batteries, power
>>> pack, memory cards, tiny netbook, downloader, external hard drives,
>>> cables,
>>> converters, power plugs.  That should all fit in my Lowepro backpack and
>>> an
>>> M Classic satchel.
>>>
>>> Clothes will be long underwear, jeans, turtlenecks, down coats, boots,
>>> gloves, hats, thermal socks - all fitting in one roll-on bag. Small
>>> travel-sized tubes of toothpaste, soaps, etc.
>>>
>>> I've made my list and checked it more than twice.  Am I forgetting
>>> anything?  Have you photographed the Northern Lights?  Any
>>> recommendations?
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>> Tina
>>>
>>> --
>>> Tina Manley
>>> www.tinamanley.com
>>> tina-manley.artistwebsites.com
>>> http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-
>>> 4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html
>>>
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