The 28-200 is surprisingly compact, and much better than it's
reputation, (formed on 35mm film), when coupled with a APS-C sensor. It
doesn't however give you anything like a wide angle. You can however
get them relatively cheaply. Unfortunately KEH doesn't have one in
stock right now, they often have a couple for much less than $150.00,
(no matter how much I talk that lens up for digital, I can't seem to
kite the price).
On 10/9/2010 5:26 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote:
Eric,
I just took a trip this past August to the Canyon/Four corners area.
Our trip was a family vacation, not photo safari, so I wanted to pack
light, too. I brought one lens, a 17-70. Which was fine -- I used
the wide end a good bit of the time -- but there were several times I
wished I'd brought a longer lens. (We saw a mountain lion and a
California condor!) And think about bringing a tripod. We first
entered the park at sunset -- which was SPECTACULAR. I was totally
kicking myself for leaving my lightweight tripod at home... it would
have been great to do some longer exposures at sunset. Oh well.
I had even thought about getting one of those super-zooms, like
28-200, but never did. Maybe that's an option if you can really only
bring one?
Have a great trip... it's an amazing place!
-c
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Eric Weir<eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
On Oct 9, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
You may be surprised what the *sense* of compression from a long lens will do for landscapes
like that. There are good, reasonably-priced 100-300 range zooms out there. I have an old
Tokina 35-200 that is quite sharp but they sell really cheap, probably because they don't
focus close at all. So they're great for distance work, and The Canyon would be a great
place to use one. (They often go for<$25 on eBay and have the "A" setting for
ease of use.)
Thanks, Colin. As I say, I'm open to suggestions, but you can glean my initial
thoughts about this from some of my other responses.
I've listed my long lenses in another response. And KEH is right here. I'd
prefer not to buy a lens for this trip -- in addition to being an amateur I'm
poor -- but maybe I could pick up something useful in this situation cheaply.
I'll take a look.
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Decatur, GA USA
eew...@bellsouth.net
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