Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 9:27 AM -0500 05.4.25, Bunting, Roger L (Roger) wrote: >I have a business meeting in Athens in a couple of weeks. This is my >first trip to Athens, or anywhere on the Mediterranean coast. I will >have two days for some touring. I'm trying to decide on what >equipment to take. I prefer to take my M6, but I'm limited to a 35mm >and 50mm lens. In doing some rough measurements on maps it doesn't >look as if the 35mm is really wide enough for the street, nor the >50mm long enough for detail. I have a lot of other choices in a >Nikon SLR system. In southern france and spain, I found the 35/90 combination on my M7 worked well. If you go too wide, you risk losing everything in the smallness of the frame. If I was doing it again, I might try a 25/35/90. The 25mm is good for irregular 5% of shots, the 35mm for 80%, and the 90mm picks up the remaining 15%. My Canon EOS 10D had a 28-135IS on it -- with the 1.6X crop factor, it wasn't wide enough. Karen -- Karen Nakamura http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/