Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote: >Looks good! >What I do when I am on a purely cultural trip is take the X100S and the >X-E1 with the 56mm f1.2 - makes for an light, fast, highly capable >35mm/85mm kit. The other thing I do when I really want to travel ultralight >is to just take the X100S with the superb wide and tele screw on adapters - >gives me a 28mm/35mm/50mm f2 kit I can carry in my pockets! >Cheers >Jayanand ===================================================================================== Jayanand, what you take sounds eminently practical, and light. After 40 years on the job hauling heavy Nikons, and then Canons with huge zooms, the only multi-focal lens I use is the 5.1-12.8 f/2 Vario Summicron on my Lumix LX3, for the 24mm or 35mm equivalent settings on the rare occasion when I want a wider view than 50mm (from a 35mm Summicron on my X-E2). My normal bag has LX3, X-E2, 105mm f/1.8 Nikkor, 35mm f/2 Summicron, and a 50mm lens (choosing from among 50mm Summicron LTM collapsible, 50mm Summicron M collapsible, 50mm Summicron DR, 50mm f/1.4 Zuiko, 50mm f/1.2 Canon LTM, and even a 50mm f/1.8 Kern Macro-Switar; seldom used are a 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor and 50mm f/1.4 Super-Takumar). I like the cropped sensor on the X-E2 since 85-90mm was my favorite focal length on film cameras, and now I have all those choices of what are now small 80mm lenses. A 50 is on my camera 90% of the time. -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt