Hello again everyone. My family and I are spending the last week of June
and the first week of July on a (guided) tour of Italy and Greece. I'm in
dire need of photographic advice.
My initial thought was to take my OM-4, a wide angle, a couple of zooms, and
a 1.4. I planned to keep one of the zooms mounted and switch to the other
lenses as needed. A second body would also make the trip. No flash (leave
the T-32 at home). No tripod. I was out to travel relatively light
(camera-wise). It's a vacation, not a photo-journal excursion. I
definitely want to smell the roses. On the other hand, I don't want to kick
myself for leaving lenses at home that I would have used a lot. (If a 500mm
would have been perfect for one shot, I don't care. Don't have one.
Wouldn't want to bring a big lens which would see little use.)
My latest thought is to take three bodies. I'm thinking of keeping a
different speed film in each (100, 400, 800). I will definitely shoot
prints, not slides. (I shot slides on my honeymoon 25+ years ago and my
wife hasn't let me forget it since.) I'm also thinking of picking up a
table top tripod for shots from hotel windows or whenever a convenient
height ledge is available. From my review of Gary Reese's lens tests, f8 or
f11 would be the optimal f-stop to use for most of my lenses. I want to
keep the shutter speed up so as to eliminate camera shake. I'm afraid that
throws me to 400 or 800 speed films.
The three bodies I would take are OM-4, OM-2s, and OM-1n. A fourth body,
OM-PC, would be used by one of my daughters.
Here are my Zuiko lens possibilities:
24mm f2.8
35mm f2.0
50mm 1.4 (two)
50mm 1.8 (three)
35-70mm, f3.5-4.5
35-70mm, f3.6 (assuming the blame f-stop coupling problem is fixed)
75-150mm (two)
Non-Zuiko lenses are:
Vivitar Series 1 28-90mm, f2.8-3.5 (heavy!)
Vivitar 28-105mm, f3.5-4.5 (not as heavy but has zoom creep, if you know
what I mean)
Tokina SZ-X 70-210mm, f4.0-5.6
Okay, what would YOU advise taking? Bear in mind that I don't want to take
it all. If you think I should pick up another lens or two (prime or zoom),
say so (but please not the 35-80mm f2.8, the 90mm f2.0, etc.). What's my
walking around lens? One of the 35-70s? 35 f2? Definitely a 1.4 is my low
light lens. I would like to stick with just one lens for my daughter.
Which one? 1.4? Let her use the 35-70?
What about the film? What are your current favorite 100, 400, & 800 speed
print films? (Let's restrict it to Kodak & Fuji.) Am I going overboard on
the film? Should I stick with just two speeds (or even one)? Odds are that
I'm just getting 4x5 or 4x6 prints. Any enlargements would not be over 8x10
(and there might be no enlargements done).
Do you have any other general advice?
I really appreciate anything any of you have to say. Thanks in advance.
Mike
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