Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am also a 85mm sort of guy, which is why I find a 35mm wide enough for my general needs. Cheers Jayanand On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 7:49 PM Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwmalumni.com> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote: > > >Looks good! > > >What I do when I am on a purely cultural trip is take the X100S and the > >X-E1 with the 56mm f1.2 - makes for an light, fast, highly capable > >35mm/85mm kit. The other thing I do when I really want to travel > ultralight > >is to just take the X100S with the superb wide and tele screw on adapters > - > >gives me a 28mm/35mm/50mm f2 kit I can carry in my pockets! > > >Cheers > >Jayanand > > ===================================================================================== > Jayanand, what you take sounds eminently practical, and light. After 40 > years on the job hauling heavy Nikons, > and then Canons with huge zooms, the only multi-focal lens I use is the > 5.1-12.8 f/2 Vario Summicron on my > Lumix LX3, for the 24mm or 35mm equivalent settings on the rare occasion > when I want a wider view than 50mm > (from a 35mm Summicron on my X-E2). > My normal bag has LX3, X-E2, 105mm f/1.8 Nikkor, 35mm f/2 Summicron, and a > 50mm > lens (choosing from among 50mm Summicron LTM collapsible, 50mm Summicron M > collapsible, > 50mm Summicron DR, 50mm f/1.4 Zuiko, 50mm f/1.2 Canon LTM, and even a 50mm > f/1.8 Kern Macro-Switar; > seldom used are a 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor and 50mm f/1.4 Super-Takumar). I like > the cropped sensor on the X-E2 > since 85-90mm was my favorite focal length on film cameras, and now I have > all those choices of what are now > small 80mm lenses. A 50 is on my camera 90% of the time. > > -- > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services > (Retired) > UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 > UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 > amr3 at uwm.edu > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate > for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >