- For day time shooting, I'll have my RF 24-105mm f4.0L, but I'm looking for advice on which secondary lens/lenses to bring along for night time street photography.
While my RF 16-28mm f2.8 STM is somewhat slightly weather sealed, my primes are not. Also, I have a love/hate relationship with my RF 16-28mm f2.8 STM, as it requires more post processing to ease up a bit of the distortion compared to my primes.
I don't want to carry a huge backpack or bag with all my gear, plus I'm probably going to visit during rainy season. And, no I can't "just buy or rent another lens"; I have to select/choose from what I currently own. This trip is costing me way more than I had budgeted for, so I have to make due with what I already own. Thanks in advance.
I will comment as someone who only had primes except for the EF70-200mm f2.8 IS..UNTIL I turned 72.
I have hand tremors now...My arsenal has grown more to excellent zooms. While the 16-35f2.8 has some issues for my shooting, you can't beat it for nightime! I went to the f4 IS because of tremors...
If time is no problem..your primes should give you the advantage of "going back" with another prime or a zoom to "catch" what one lens or another may miss....Otherwise I would recommend a quality zoom.
Have FUN!!!
Dan
Oh..weather..a good plastic bag for protection is very useful.
I should clarify my above statement..I have a MF Fuji and except for my GF120mm Macro all lenses are GF zooms....
I wish I knew how to answer that since I've been around this loop a couple of times. I still have periods where I flip/flop - for the obvious reasons. In a way the zoom requires more attention since after using a prime for a day or two, that view is kinda stuck in my head, so it frees up brain power to look at composition and everything else. It depends on the trip and I will swap stuff around but gone are the days of my carrying everything.
For travel, I've mostly settled on a general zoom {mostly the 24-240 which is your 24-105} and 1-2 primes that add something the zoom does not OR 1-2 zooms {I drop the 24-240 in this use case} and a single prime. All three must add something different from the others.
In your case taking the 16-28 rules out the 16 and 28 primes since they are just not different enough. I'd also remove the 24 & 35 because while they are faster, they are not THAT much faster (especially with the R6ii's low-light ability) and they are basically inside the zooms range (28 vs 35 is meh), so I'd take the 50 with the wide zoom since it's faster and the most different - outside the 16-28's range and far faster than the 24-105.
