[Leica] Lens kit for europe

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)]

A good compromise is to take a light M kit, heck, may be even just a 
28, and a 75. Then a reasonable digicam with a long zoom end in the 
120-200mm range. Certainly for a tourist, that should cover most things.

At 11:54 AM 3/25/2008, TED GRANT wrote:

>Hi Sonny,
>I was nearly going to say that in my earlier post. But fiured the 
>SLR and 80-200 wouldn't be too bad a load. However?
>There's a big difference if one is working, then one hauls 
>everything you own because you can't go home not having the images 
>that broke your heart they were so beautiful and you didn't have the 400mm.
>However, if one is on a sight & see trip it truly is best to go 
>light, shoot what turns you on and go home with beautiful unburdened 
>photos with stories of how tired you were at the end of each day's 
>holiday "carrying all that damn equipment I never used!!" :-(
>It should be remembered people like HCB didn't carry a half dozen 
>cameras as he popped about Paris doing his thing. There's more to be 
>said about using ones photographic eye with one camera than the 
>option of grabbing a choice of two or three. :-)
>So Gene old buddy when you read this and Sonny's comments it might 
>be a couple of thoughts to consider. :-)
>One M8, a couple of lenses and shoot everyone's butt off!:-) Go for 
>it! :-) I double dare you! :-) :-)
>ted
>

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