On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Peter McIntosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > My wife and I are off to the south island of NZ in September for a couple of > weeks. I want to travel light, and am considering taking just one - prime - > lens for my ist-DL. Trouble is, I'm not entirely sure what focal length to > take. I'm currently drawn to something around 24mm, due to its similarity to > 35mm on film. I must admit I like the physical size of the DA 40mm, but I > think that might be a little bit "long". I reckon 21mm might be a bit wide, > but a standard 50 will definitely too "long". > > Soooo... What focal length would you take? And why? > > Ciao,
One of my favourite trips, to NYC several summers ago, I had rather severe restrictions of what I could travel with (a bike in a hardshell case kind of used up much of my allowance). I ended up taking my Leica CL with a 40mm. Funny, but I never found it limiting at all, and I took some of my favourite photos ever with that simple combo. I guess you've got different issued with landscape and all, but I'd probably stick with somewhere around the equivalent of a 35mm to 40mm 35mm film equivalent. Very useful all-round focal lengths, although I don't think I could disagree with anyone who says wider would be good for landscapes. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
