[Leica] Best Lenses To Take To Honolulu

[keith at wbalaw.com (Keith R. Wessel)]

But Ted, just think how much less energy you would have to expend if you
simply pointed to Kyle's excellent travel instructions at

http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/leicaslacker/plug/travelfaq.html  ;-)


I have read it twice and get something new everytime.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Best Lenses To Take To Honolulu


> 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
>
>
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