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 p.1 #1 · Photo Equipment for a month long? trip to Italy | |
This is a companion piece to my thread that I started a short time age regarding downloading photos and accessing the internet for an extended period of time while traveling. This thread will be regarding what photo equipment that I should take for what may turn out to be a month long trip to Italy in March of next year with my wife who now needs a rollator (we got her a rollator for all terrain with pneumatic tires), my Step Daughter who is having some health issues and her friend.
First let me say, I am an "old time" photographer in that I have shot MF in a large number of formats for many years from large format, to medium format Rolleiflex TLR, Mamiya 7II, and Leica R camera systems. I am not really a people photographer, but I can and on occasion will photograph them, but not that often. I did that when I was the Chief Photographer when I was on the Rutgers Newark College Newspaper and the College yearbook staffs for many years in the 1970s and 1980s. I even shot Volleyball for the school during those years all with Canon cameras and FD lenses.
Today, I much prefer shooting with small (mainly primes), sharp, manual focus lenses with good performance for most of my shooting to somewhere around 100mm. As a result, most of my lenses are M-mount, Leica R, and Voigtlander MF lenses that I use with 5 Sony camera bodies. When I get to longer focal lengths at this point I often/normally switch over to AF Sony 100-400mm GM and 200-600mm G lenses which I use largely for wildlife including birds, though I also use them for landscape work.
Of the Sony camera bodies, I intend to only bring 2 due to the weight and space available. These will be my A1 and my A7rII Kolari Vision UT sensor modified cameras (to be used mainly with most of my WA M-mount lenses with the possible exception of the Voigtlander 12mm VM lens). I intend to bring my Think Tank AIRPORT ADVANTAGE™ roller (Their smallest roller) and to supplement that with a Think Tank BACKSTORY 13 as my personal item. I anticipate that we will fly from Newark to Rome, Italy by United because they do not have weight restrictions, only size restrictions and they also have a non stop flight. The BACKSTORY 13 is 1/2" larger than the United personal item size in one dimension, but Think Tank thinks that we can compress the pack that 1/2" and it should not be a problem.
As to the lenses that I have available to take, these include the following M-mount lenses: Leica M WATE, Leica M 24mm f3.8 Elmar Asph, Leica M 135mm f4 Tele-Elmar V1, Zeiss 35mm f1.4 ZM Distagon, Minolta CLE MC 40mm f2 M-Rokkor, and Voigtlander 12mm f5.6 Ultra-Wide Heliar VIII VM (just returned from SK Grimes and can now be used with numerous filters), Voigtlander 28mm f2 Ultron II Asph VM, and the Voigtlander 90mm f2.8 Apo-Skopar which will be shipped at the end of this month.
The Leica R lenses that I would consider bringing would be my Leica R 28mm f2.8 Super Angulon PC, Leica R 180mm f3.4 Apo-Telyt, and Leica R 80-200mm f4 Vario Elmar.
As to E-mount lenses I have the following: Voigtlander 50mm f2 Apo-Lanthar Asph, E-mount, Voigtlander 65mm f2 Macro Apo-Lanthar Asph, and 110mm f2.5 Apo-Lanthar. The only AF lens that I would also like to consider bringing would be my Sony 100-400mm GM (quite possibly with the 1.4X TC and maybe the 2X TC).
As much as I like the 2 Voigtlander Macro lenses, they are large and heavy and I will also be bringing along my Kenko Sony FE Extension Tube Set as well as Marumi DHG Achromat Lens 200 in 49mm thread size which I will be able to use with the Voigtlander 50mm f2 Apo-Lanthar Asph, E-mount and the Voigtlander 90mm f2.8 Apo-Skopar lenses. I will also be bringing the Hawk's Factory Leica M to Sony FE Helicoid V5 which allows any of the M mount lenses to focus closer than the lens allows. For the M-mount lenses I will also bring 2 Novoflex Leica M to FE adapters, and the Phigment Leica M to Sony FE adapter that I have "glued" to the Leica M WATE (the adapter will record EXIF info as the WATE and will also auto magnify with the lens when focused).
My preferred lens set would consist of the Voigtlander 12mm f5.6 VM, Leica M WATE (16/18/21mm), Voigtlander 28mm f2 Ultron II VM, Voigtlander 50mm f2 Apo-Lanthar Asph, E-mount, Voigtlander 90mm f2.8 Apo-Skopar, and the Sony 100-400mm GM (possibly with the 1.4X and 2X?? TCs). I would also expect to carry the Minolta CLE MC 40mm f2 M-Rokkor because it is so tiny and light and could be used for an extremely small package with 1 body when I wanted.
I personally prefer the 28mm focal length for my shooting than the 35mm which many of you prefer. The 28mm focal length spaces better with the other lenses than the 35mm focal length which I find too close to the 50mm focal length. If everyone thinks that I need the extra stop at f1.4 vs f2, I will consider bringing it and/or substitute for the 28mm focal length.
The way that I would expect to use the lenses and how I will be able to recognize which focal length is used with the limited EXIF data is:
With the A7rII Kolari Vision UT sensor modified camera, I would use the Leica M WATE with the Phigment Leica M to Sony E mount adapter which records the EXIF data. The 28mm Ultron II records no data, so I would recognize which lens was used.
With the A1 camera, I would use the 2 E mount lenses which both record EXIF data. The Voigtlander 12mm f5.6 VM records no EXIF data, nor does the Voigtlander 90mm f2.8 Apo-Skopar (which I expect should perform as well on either camera) but I believe that I could differentiate between these 2 extreme differences in focal length.
I look forward to your comments, observations, and suggestions.
Rich
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