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Subject: [Leica] Best Lenses To Take To Honolulu
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)
Date: Tue May 18 07:22:52 2004
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Higa Isaku said:
Subject: RE: [Leica] Best Lenses To Take To Honolulu
> Hey chill out guys... may be an easy answer... ;-)  I'd hate to go to
Hawaii lugging all the camera equiptment in the tropical weather! <<<<<,,

No it has nothing to do with "chilling out" as that's a bull shit answer! He
asked a question that need not to have been asked in the first place for
someone going there for the first time! Simple common sense would dictate
given he'd never been there before, take every damn lens he owned .. just in
case!  That's the chillingest answer to the question

Hell he didn't say what his equipment was, what he liked to shoot, was it
colour-B&W? water scenes, jungles or people... day or night! In any case he
should've known to take every lens he owned to save his ass no matter what
the subject,,,,, just in case you might find something unexpected.

There's nothing more frustrating than to go on a shoot and when you return
with what could've been a very successful assignment providing you had your
correct lens and then have to make weak excuses why it isn't the best of the
best by not taking everything. Sure avoids excuses for a half assed job.

Look what's the point of going some place for the first time and not be
prepared for every possible photo opportunity with the right lenses to avoid
the excuse of ........ "Oh man this would've been so much better if I'd
taken my 100 macro or whatever lens." And quite frankly that's a bull shit
excuse and absolutely unnecessary if you take all your gear...........
particularly lenses!

Now if he intended to lie on the beach most of the time and do the near
nekkked bikini gals hell one good zoom and a digi would answer that quickly.
;-) But see he didn't say diddily what he preferred to photograph.

Some of us lug damn near everything we own on our shoots, simply on the
basis of, you never know "exactly what you'll see that requires a 15 or
400!" And having shot in Hawaii several times on assignment I answered a
question that need never to have been asked in the first place!

He asked "what lenses to take to Honolulu" He didn't say anything about
being an amateur or pro. he asked an open ended question and I gave him an
open answer! It's like, "ask and you shall receive!"

He also didn't say anything about his reason for going there, work or play.

Higa said:
"hell that's no big deal."

Well it may not be a big deal for you, but some of us don't approach a shoot
to a "never been there before location" with a chill out attitude, unless
it's prime reason for going is getting a tan and playing in the water. Even
then you might be surprised at the amount of gear that goes simply
because........... "you never know what might happen, so be simply
prepared!"

> Forget about serious shooting! Just relax on the beach with a couple of
> books to read... Now the question is what books  :-)<<<<<<<,

No it isn't, books bedamned! As the question is "Why forget about serious
shooting?" Certainly when he's never said why he was going there... "beach
play or a serious shoot." And that's the question to be answered first!

ted



Replies: Reply from keith at wbalaw.com (Keith R. Wessel) ([Leica] Best Lenses To Take To Honolulu)
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