chiron wrote: Peire wroteOdSBeautiful images, wonderful color. You're making me think I need to bring my Batis lenses to Japan instead of my Sigma i series lenses.
Batis lenses are great,but when you visit new place with lots of unexpected photographic opportunities it is wiser to have a set of 3 quality zooms to cover whatever encountered,from 12-16mm to 200-400mm.
Peire wrote: chiron wrotePeire wroteOdSBeautiful images, wonderful color. You're making me think I need to bring my Batis lenses to Japan instead of my Sigma i series lenses.Batis lenses are great,but when you visit new place with lots of unexpected photographic opportunities it is wiser to have a set of 3 quality zooms to cover whatever encountered,from 12-16mm to 200-400mm.
Thank you. I may take one or at most two good light zooms--the Sigma 17-28/2.8 and the Sigma 28-70/2.8. But I do prefer shooting primes. Also, I rarely shoot outside of the 24-90mm range--that is just the framing I prefer. I find that most shots made with either longer or shorter focal lengths than that seem to impose the characteristics of the focal length on the image. I especially don't like compression effects. One of the things I like about your set of Batis 18mm is that they don't look like they were shot with an 18mm. So, clearly some of the issue is skill in composing and positioning the camera.
