Europe Walkaround Lens (Page 5): I know I am not answering you directly, but I have been to Europe twice and learned thru experience you will need 3 lenses, or lens functions. Wide...

graybeard

loosecanon wrote:

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I know I am not answering you directly, but I have been to Europe twice and learned thru experience you will need 3 lenses, or lens functions. Wide angle, as wide as you can get without going fisheye, Canon 10-18 is a good choice. You will likely find this is the lens you use most. Then a telephoto zoom out to 200-300 or so. Your 18-135 comes close. And your third lens should be a fast one, 1.8 at least, for the indoor museums etc. Canon nifty fifty is good for this, but if you have a aps-c body something around 35mm but fast is what would be best. Have fun.

loosecanon Loc: Central Texas

Thanks.

mrussell

I travel to Germany several times a year and have never used a lens longer than 85mm. I shoot far more often with a 24mm or 35mm.

dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

ChristianHJensen wrote:

Whatever one you land on - just make sure it is the metric version or it won't work.................

Know what you mean. I took a USA lens to Europe once. Calculated my DOF to be three feet. But the picture was completely out of focus. The only explanation was that the DOF, not being in metric, meant that I had a DOF of 0. It certainly had nothing to do with my forgetting to press the BBF button before I took the shot.

ChristianHJensen

dsmeltz wrote:

Know what you mean. I took a USA lens to Europe once. Calculated my DOF to be three feet. But the picture was completely out of focus. The only explanation was that the DOF, not being in metric, meant that I had a DOF of 0. It certainly had nothing to do with my forgetting to press the BBF button before I took the shot.

I do have it a little easier as I grew up in Denmark and now live in the US so I can sort of translate - and my camera and lenses are Bi

RichardE Loc: California

I also have spent many trips and time in Europe with my Pentax K5-IIs and the 17-50mm, f/2.8 and hardly used my 10mm or 100 mm. Now I just take the 17-50. (Crop sensor is 26-75mm, 15mm, and 150mm)

conigk wrote:

I just returned from 3+ weeks in Western Europe and took way too many lenses for my crop-sensor camera. I took almost 900 pictures, also too many, that I need to get down to 150 or so. I used my Tameron 18-400 twice and used the Canon 17-55 almost exclusively, and usually at the low end. We had a lot of gloomy weather so I did not use my polarized filter much and now I have a lot of blown out skies to deal with. I continue to learn. Kathy

RolandDieter

Take the 10-18 along. You will most likely regret it if you don't. It will also cover enough so that the 18-135 over the 15-85 is a no-brainer. If you insist on only taking one, take the 15-85. mwsilvers comment is right on. And keep in mind that since you are driving you will definitely see things that call for more wide and more reach than the 15-85. This is based on having done several driving trips to those countries.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

Silverman wrote:

Do not forget, the TSA will be watching, and the more Camera and Lens you take thru customs or a security point, the more of a hassle it might be. If I understand what I have read, coming back into the United States from a foreign country, you will receive the most scrutiny at customs or security.

Only if you list Medellin, Colombia as your port of departure. Coming back from Europe, they could care less.

Seriously if any of you are contemplating traveling internationally, spend the $100 for TSA Global Reentry which includes TSA Pre Check. With Pre Check, I was able to slide my entire camera backpack through the Xray, kept my shoes and belt on, and did not get yelled at by the standard TSA Agents at LAX.

loosecanon Loc: Central Texas

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

Only if you list Medellin, Colombia as your port of departure. Coming back from Europe, they could care less.

Seriously if any of you are contemplating traveling internationally, spend the $100 for TSA Global Reentry which includes TSA Pre Check. With Pre Check, I was able to slide my entire camera backpack through the Xray, kept my shoes and belt on, and did not get yelled at by the standard TSA Agents at LAX.

Thanks. I have TSA.