I haven't been to such place, but I would probably use colour negatives to so that both highlight and shadow could be preserved. My lens pick would be 24, 35-70/4 & 70-210/4, and 52 & 58mm polarizers. I don't see the need for AF280T, especially when SFXn has one built-in already. As to metering, I usually either meter off the blue sky, or off the snow mountain +1EV. Everything else should fall within an acceptable range. f8 or f11 + tripod should produce good results. Right, I suppose the proper hoods are good idea too. I would avoid to stack filters however.
--- Markus Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend of mine works in the tourist travel business here in Switzerland > and wants me to take photos from her Swiss alp tours like Mt. Pilatus, Mt. > Rigi, Jungfrau, Mt. Titlis for her brochures. I'm asked to make mostly > photos of the panorama and the cable car and other railways and will have to > take the shots **around midday** or hopefully in the later evening. > > I'm planning on taking most of the photos with the Pentax SFXn on color > negative film, since I (own and) know this camera well and take a small > additional manual camera like the ME Super or P30 body with me. > > I think I will carry the Pentax A 24mm wide lens (the widest I have), the > 50mm A 2.8 macro (or 50mm 1:1.2) and a tele or longer zoom like the A > 70-210mm and the A2x teleconverter with me and the AF280T flash and monopod > or a small tripod. Skylight and 1 circular polfilter and spare batteries > too. > > Any recommendations from your side regarding lenses, film material etc. > I don't want to carry too much weight with me if possible. > > I have additional tele primes like the Tamron 90mm macro, Pentax M 135mm and > 200mm or zooms M 75-150, A 70-210 and a Sigma 70-30 and wide lenses in 28mm > and 35mm size and a small Pentax A35-70mm and F35-135mm zoom. > > > What diameter polfilter would I need for the A24mm (52mm filter size) to > avoid dark edges or should I only use a UV or skylight filter on top of the > mountains? Hopefully I can limit myself to two filter sizes like 52mm and > 58mm. > > > I do not have (a lot of) experience with landscape photography. > If every thing fails the first time, I could repeat the travels, so I could > risk some experiments. > > > thanks for any recommendations > Markus Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
