[Leica] Best Lenses To Take To Honolulu

[Thinkofcole at aol.com (Thinkofcole@aol.com)]

      This is really basic, and maybe it's me, but the days are long gone 
when you can wander around a strange city with lots of expensive camera equipment 
around your neck and feel safe.
      Once you step outside your hotel, whether or not you're carrying a 
camera, you're a tourist [with money in your pocket] and fair game for all sorts 
of low lifes. Without even touching you, a sneak thief with a knife or razor or 
a kid on a motorcycle can relieve you of your Leica or handbag and be gone in 
seconds before you even realize the loss. 
      Based on personal experience,  unless you're a pro or have someone to 
lug your stuff , I would take no more than would fit in a small canvas bag: a 
camera, a lens, perhaps a table-top tripod and as much film as you want. Travel 
light.     
      As for taking a 560mm lens, I have a 400mm, which is enormous [and 
heavy], so a 560 mm lens must be humongous, best used with a heavy tripod. Imagine 
lugging around 5 pounds of a deadweight lens all day, every day plus a big 
tripod and a camera and some film and something to put it all in. -- bob cole