Hi Paul, and welcome to you. It sounds reasonable to me to use film for a trip like that. A 135mm is a fin e portrait lens for outdoor purposes. Indoo it's often to long - a 105 or 85 mm might be better there. For inddor a 24mm is good, cause you can frame all the people at the dinner table - a 28mm or 35 can't really do that. But for Outdoor use the 28mm or 35mm is fine. In the 1970'ies a 28mm or 35mm, a 50mm and a 135mm would be a fine standard outfit. Today it's more like a 28-70mm and a 70-210mm, perhaps supplemented by a 24mm and a 200mm along the way. So, the 80-200 zoom could be a very nice choise - perhaps along with a wideangle zoom 28-70 or 35-80mm - but I don't specificly know this 80-200mm lens. Others may.
Have a nice trip, and be sure to post some shots when you get back. All the best Jens Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Paul McEvoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 6. august 2004 18:19 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: first question Hello there, I'm new here and was hoping you might be able to answer a couple of questions. I'm travelling for a few months and hoping to take a lot of pictures. And hopefully good pictures. I was originally planning on buying a Nikon Digital SLR but after reading around for a while I decided I might learn a lot more from using film. I just bought a K 1000 off ebay with the 50/1:2 lens. I'm interested in getting some more lenses to round things out. It needs to be said that I have almost no idea what I'm doing, frankly. But I am a writer and think that it would serve me well to be a competent photographer too. I'm leaving pretty soon for this trip (cross the US and Canada by very small car), so I'm trying to get some good equipment now and make some mistakes along the way with it. I'm looking for a wide angle lens and a portrait lens. I read that I should be looking for a 100mm prime lens for the portrait lens, but I can't seem to find much on ebay. Actually none, except for some screw mounts. There are a lot of 135mm lenses. Would the do similar things? As far as the wide angle goes is it worth trying to hunt down a 24mm or is 28mm just as good? And is the Pentax k mount 80-200mm zoom a good lens? My apologies if these are questions you've all heard a thousand times. I appreciate any help you can give me. Thanks Paul
