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Lens Suggestion for Italy Trip
My wife and I are going on a tour of Italy for two weeks !!!
I have the Olympus E330 with these lenses: 11-22, 14-54, 18-180, 40-150 and the 1.4TC. Our last long vacation was the Canadian Rockies and the 11-22 was the most useful. I realize that most of the places we will be visiting are urban areas - not large vista like the Rockies. I would like to limit myself to only one or two lenses. Any suggestions from people who have been there? Thanks, Steve |
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Lens Suggestion for Italy Trip
Steven Wandy wrote:
My wife and I are going on a tour of Italy for two weeks !!! I have the Olympus E330 with these lenses: 11-22, 14-54, 18-180, 40-150 and the 1.4TC. Our last long vacation was the Canadian Rockies and the 11-22 was the most useful. I realize that most of the places we will be visiting are urban areas - not large vista like the Rockies. I would like to limit myself to only one or two lenses. Any suggestions from people who have been there? Thanks, Steve Any particular part of Italy? Mountains, towns, coast, islands; churches, a motor-racing circuit for the GP this weekend? What sort of pictures do you like to take? David |
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Lens Suggestion for Italy Trip
Steven Wandy wrote in
: My wife and I are going on a tour of Italy for two weeks !!! I have the Olympus E330 with these lenses: 11-22, 14-54, 18-180, 40-150 and the 1.4TC. Our last long vacation was the Canadian Rockies and the 11-22 was the most useful. I realize that most of the places we will be visiting are urban areas - not large vista like the Rockies. I would like to limit myself to only one or two lenses. Any suggestions from people who have been there? If you plan on visiting churches and the like, a fast wide angle lens would be very useful. You don't want too much of a fisheye effect, though. |
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Lens Suggestion for Italy Trip
18 - 180!!!
wow! With this lens do you need any others?! As with all things I suppose there is a tradeoff. "Steven Wandy" wrote in message ... My wife and I are going on a tour of Italy for two weeks !!! I have the Olympus E330 with these lenses: 11-22, 14-54, 18-180, 40-150 and the 1.4TC. Our last long vacation was the Canadian Rockies and the 11-22 was the most useful. I realize that most of the places we will be visiting are urban areas - not large vista like the Rockies. I would like to limit myself to only one or two lenses. Any suggestions from people who have been there? Thanks, Steve |
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Lens Suggestion for Italy Trip
Steven Wandy wrote: My wife and I are going on a tour of Italy for two weeks !!! I have the Olympus E330 with these lenses: 11-22, 14-54, 18-180, 40-150 and the 1.4TC. Our last long vacation was the Canadian Rockies and the 11-22 was the most useful. I realize that most of the places we will be visiting are urban areas - not large vista like the Rockies. I would like to limit myself to only one or two lenses. Any suggestions from people who have been there? Thanks, Steve Any particular part of Italy? Mountains, towns, coast, islands; churches, a motor-racing circuit for the GP this weekend? What sort of pictures do you like to take? David It is a bus tour (Tauck). Mostly staying in the larger cities, but will make a lot of stops in the countryside - including the coast near Sorento. (Unfortunately not the GP - we will miss it.) Interested more in scenic than candid people shots, though will not pass up interesting ones. |
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Lens Suggestion for Italy Trip
Steven Wandy wrote in : My wife and I are going on a tour of Italy for two weeks !!! I have the Olympus E330 with these lenses: 11-22, 14-54, 18-180, 40-150 and the 1.4TC. Our last long vacation was the Canadian Rockies and the 11-22 was the most useful. I realize that most of the places we will be visiting are urban areas - not large vista like the Rockies. I would like to limit myself to only one or two lenses. Any suggestions from people who have been there? If you plan on visiting churches and the like, a fast wide angle lens would be very useful. You don't want too much of a fisheye effect, though. The 11-22 and 14-54 are both 2.8-3.5 zooms, but there is a lot of overlap betwen the two ranges. The 18-180 is slower (3.5-6.3) but is very compact. |
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Lens Suggestion for Italy Trip
Steven Wandy wrote:
[] It is a bus tour (Tauck). Mostly staying in the larger cities, but will make a lot of stops in the countryside - including the coast near Sorento. (Unfortunately not the GP - we will miss it.) Interested more in scenic than candid people shots, though will not pass up interesting ones. If you are on a bus tour, time for photography will be limited compared to going round on your own, so time for lens changing will be limited as well. Could you manage with just the 18 - 180? If you need one more for wide-angles inside churches etc. the 11 - 22 seems to be the obvious choice. You could get a second body to avoid the lens changing of course! And perhaps that second body might be a non-SLR - a more compact camera for those very quick grab shots and for the evenings when you don't want to take the full DSLR outfit. You could even make some short movies with a small camera, which can capture the essence of some events as well as a still photo. BTW: you can get /some/ good shots through the coach windows - be prepared for a lower percentage of keepers, though. David |
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Lens Suggestion for Italy Trip
Steven Wandy wrote:
My wife and I are going on a tour of Italy for two weeks !!! I have the Olympus E330 with these lenses: 11-22, 14-54, 18-180, 40-150 and the 1.4TC. Our last long vacation was the Canadian Rockies and the 11-22 was the most useful. I realize that most of the places we will be visiting are urban areas - not large vista like the Rockies. I would like to limit myself to only one or two lenses. Any suggestions from people who have been there? Thanks, Steve I would keep the 11-22 on the body and have one of the two long lenses handy. -- Joseph Meehan Dia duit |
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Lens Suggestion for Italy Trip
In article , John Ortt says...
18 - 180!!! wow! With this lens do you need any others?! As with all things I suppose there is a tradeoff. Exactly. Aside from tradeoffs due to the huge 10x range (although the 18-180 gets surprisingly good results), there is the issue that this lens starts only at 18mm, which corresponds to 36mm in 35mm equivalence. Not too wide for architectural photography. -- Alfred Molon ------------------------------ Olympus 50X0, 7070, 8080, E300, E330 and E500 forum at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/ Olympus E330 resource - http://myolympus.org/E330/ |
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Lens Suggestion for Italy Trip
In article , Steven Wandy
says... My wife and I are going on a tour of Italy for two weeks !!! I have the Olympus E330 with these lenses: 11-22, 14-54, 18-180, 40-150 and the 1.4TC. Our last long vacation was the Canadian Rockies and the 11-22 was the most useful. I realize that most of the places we will be visiting are urban areas - not large vista like the Rockies. I would like to limit myself to only one or two lenses. Any suggestions from people who have been there? I would carry the 11-22, 14-54 and 18-180 with me. The 40-150 is not bad for a kit lens, but is not too good either and is in any case covered by the 18-180. You could use the 18-180 as your primary lens if you are not too concerned about overall image sharpness. By the way, see my Italy photo gallery at http://www.molon.de/galleries/Italy/ Lots of panoramas and many images taken at the wide angle end. -- Alfred Molon ------------------------------ Olympus 50X0, 7070, 8080, E300, E330 and E500 forum at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/ Olympus E330 resource - http://myolympus.org/E330/ |
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