Hi, Jens Bladt wrote: > Hi > Take the 135mm to Europe. Take care of it and get sufficient insurance! (Or > consider buying cheep stuff for travelling). You will regret using a slow > lens that gives you lesser quality (1.7/50mm+TC = 3.5/100mm). Remember that > good photographic gear cost much less than the pictures you make with it - > over some years. > I recently travelled three weeks in South Africa. Before I left I had a lot > of worries - weather or not to bring expensive gear. I chose to bring four > good lenses in a red mini trecker (LowePro backpack). No one suspected, that > it contained photographic equipment...Anyway' I got it all safely back from > safaris, horseback riding, trekking. Now I can enjoy the beautiful pics > Best Regards I'd like to stress how important it is to make sure your equipment is fully insured when you travel. I took quite a lot of equipment to Romania last year and a lot of it took some knocks while I was travelling around. Valentin will remember that one of my lenses, a Carl Zeiss 28-85/3.3-4, stopped working during our day shooting together - it no longer fed back the correct information to the viewfinder. I do not remember that lens having received any rought treatment at that stage, although later in the trip it did get quite a knock when I dropped it onto a wooden floor. The lens was still under warranty, so I took it in to be fixed, only to be told that it had suffered 'impact damage' which was not covered under the terms of the warranty, even though the impact took place _after_ the fault developed and could not therefore have caused the fault. The cost to repair it was nearly 50% of the original purchase price. After a big argument with Jessops (the sellers and guarantors) I caved in because I could get it repaired on the insurance. 4 months after I put it in for repair it is only now ready for me to collect. I would also support Jens's encouragement to take the fastest lenses you can. Despite all the travelling I've done I got caught several times in Romania with slow lenses and slow film, which meant either that I couldn't get the shot or that I had to work wide open with consequent loss of optical quality and depth of field. For travel in Europe I would recommend plenty of 400ASA film and a selection of lenses faster than f/2.8. -- Cheers, Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org.
