(05-05-2018, 09:52 PM)forum Wrote:(05-05-2018, 02:43 PM)Rover Wrote: If anyone ever asks me what to take on a vacation, I'm usually replying along the lines of "16-35 + 70-300 and be there". I ended up with the 100-400 for the long end, forgoing the 35-100 range entirely. Most of the time, it didn't matter.
OMG, I don't want to carry bricks across mountain passes ...
I did that once - never again ;-)
It was this or having the beater Sony NEX-3 with the kit lens as the only permanently available photographic option ('cause filching the 650D from wife all the time would not have been sportsmanlike, would it
).To add insult to injury, I was also carrying the 24/1.4L II with me, because the wife was convinced that we were going to have a shot at astro. We did, but most of the time the 16-35 was obviating the need for the prime.
And yes, even though we did give one backpack to the porters to carry (the tripod was there) I still had another full pack to lug around. It was, ahem, a revelation to an untrained - I mean, totally - person like myself.
P.S. Oh, and Japan is great. I was there twice - breaking my own unwritten rule of not visiting the same place/city twice if I can help it - but I enjoyed the second voyage throughly. Just blast away at most everything you see - at least that was my M.O. when in Japan, it was so fascinating (though I mostly stuck to the cities - even one city, Tokyo, actually - I did have a fair amount of the shrines too).