[Leica] Vacation Camera Lenses: What did NOT work?

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At 03:42 PM 10/11/2008, you wrote:
>Interesting question.

It varies for different trips.  For general vacation, when I hope to 
take enough stock photos to pay for the trip ;-) , I take about what 
I took to the Grand Canyon last week.  12/5.8, 24/2.8, 35/2.0, 
35/1.4, 75/1.4, 90/2.0.  I carried the DR 50, forgetting that I 
couldn't use it on the M8. I also took the 135 Hektor and the 
Visoflex attachments, thinking that I might do some close-ups of 
flowers, etc., down at Phantom Ranch, but it was too dark by the time 
I got down there and still dark when I left the next morning!!  For 
the rest of the trip, the wind was way too strong for any close-up 
work so I carried all of that stuff for nothing.  Sometimes that 
happens but I'd rather carry it and not need it than need it and not 
carry it!  I do find that I carry wider lenses in general with the M8 
than with film cameras.  I don't carry anything longer than a 90 
usually unless I'm going on safari with my R lenses.

Tina (at the farm recovering from the red-eye flight from Flagstaff!)


Tina Manley
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