Markus -
Not a complete answer - others can comment on which lenses to use - but a couple suggestions.
Film - Fuji Reala should give you good contrast, saturation and fine grain.
Filters - if the largest filter you will need is 58mm, just take filters in that size and use a 52mm to 58mm step-up ring (about 10USD) to adapt to your 52mm diameter lenses.
Panoramas - don't just rely on a wide angle lens. If you take a tripod with a pan head, take a series of frames of the panorama view, overlapping each by about 25%. Later you can scan the negs and use stitching software to create the final panorama pix.
Paul
----- Original Message ----- From: "Markus Maurer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 3:48 PM
Subject: Taking photos in the Swiss alps - seeking for advice
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
