Peter McIntosh 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, > >Peter in western Sydney > > > Whenever I went out with my old LX and only one lens it would be the 50mm f 1.4. Having now gone digital, I probably would just take the 28-135mm (um about a 50 to 160 zoom in old terms yes?) because it has the image stabilizer and also I almost never shoot wide angle stuff... but if the weight were a question, I might put my old 28mm smc on the digital body... the 50 mm equivalent.
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