On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:41:20AM -0800, Peter A. Klein wrote:
Peter,
I guess you can enjoy your vacation better, when you know your Leica on a
save place at home, so I concentrate on the Olympus system.
I´ve good experiences traveling with a medium wideangle and short tele: 35+85.
Your 2.8/100 and the 2.8/35 would be a similar pair, but the wider 2.8/28
would be preferable in your case. Especially when you carry a backup camera
with 35-110mm zoom. When you`re lusting for more speed, I´d consider to
replace the
2.8/100 with one of faster standard lenses. So I´d take 2.8/28 + 2.8/100 or
2.8/28 + 1.8(1.4)/50, and the Konica. Then you`ve only one body and two lenses,
which is good for storage, and easyer to look after.
Frieder Faig
> My wife and I plan to vacation in Italy this spring. We'll visit Rome,
> Sienna, Florence, and Venice, with side trips to Pompeii and the
> countryside around Sienna. I'm already thinking about what camera and
> lenses to take.
>
> To ask the perennial impossible question: "What camera and lenses would
> you take if you were me?" I know this is a personal decision and no one
> can make it for me. BUT I think it's useful to hear what other people
> would choose to take or leave behind, and more importantly, the reasons
> behind the decision.
>
> I've got the following to choose from:
>
> -Leica M4-P (black), 35/2 and 50/2 Summicrons, 50/1.4 Nikkor, 85/1.9
> Canon (HEAVY!), 90/4 Elmar.
> -Olympus OM-2 (chrome), 28/2.8 MC, 35/2.8 SC, 50/1.8 MC, 50/1.4 SC,
> 100/2.8 SC (all Zuikos)
>
> We will be on foot or using buses and trains the whole time, so size,
> weight and the "fiddlyness" of too many extra things is an issue. I
> will take only one body--either the M4-P or the OM-2. I might also take
> my Konica Z-Up 110 point-and-shoot (35-110mm zoom) as a backup.
> I am concerned about theft. Several travel books warn about the problem
> of theft in Italy. I've never been there, so I have no way to judge how
> real the danger is. I am leaning toward taking the Olympus to Italy, on
> the grounds that my Olympus stuff is less expensive and easier to
> replace than my Leica stuff. I'd be less worried about losing or
> breaking something. Am I being overly paranoid here?
>
> I'll be shooting color print film. I haven't decided whether to take 100
> and 400 ISO, or use all 200 as a compromise. I usually use Kodak Gold,
> but I'm open to others.
>
> The purpose of the trip is to see and experience Italy, so photography
> should fit into, but not dominate it.
>
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