> I can certainly understand the jam at the end. It made me think of many
> trips to Hawaii to see family and friends at the holidays, and it all seems
> to happen at the the very end of the stay. We'll make up for it in due
> time.
I would suggest February/March. The days will be longer and the
sled-dogs are in full song. Most people think that Alaska is ONLY to
be visited in the summer, but that is a great mistake. Flying up,
especially on Alaska Airlines, is quite affordable. Rental cars are
expensive, but there are tricks of the trade. Make sure your auto
insurer can provide rental insurance for Alaska (to avoid the rip-off
prices here) and arrange for off-airport car rental from Enterprise.
> I'm too lazy to change lenses much anymore, so the P-L 14-150 is more or
> less permanently fixed to my E-5. The 3:2 ratio of a FF Canaan might be
> especially appealing in Alaska (as I have been noting in your photos), but
> I seem to use a Tamron zoom with the OM-5DmkII quite a lot. For the last
> trip that involved airports, the E-620 with the light zooms made a lot of
> sense and I didn't regret it.
Sounds like an excellent combination to me.
> I haven't bought any photo equipment in a few years. An E-M1 of some
> vintage is at the top of my list (some sort of afterlife for my E-system
> lens is appealing to me), but I know the E-M1 is a slippery slope towards a
> new lens set. I've been down this road a few times now.
Yup. I know that story too. I had to pay for my Canon indiscretion
quite dearly, but that turned out to be a good deal as SHMBO has had
me use it for video applications. As to replacing the 6D with
something else, nothing really looks attractive to me right now. I'd
like something SONY full-frame, but everybody is still pretty proud of
them (price-wise).
AG Schnozz
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