Cruise lenses- looking for the voice(s) of experience
May 29, 2017 14:35:25 #
NJphotodoc wrote:
Hi all - Taking a cruise this summer to the Caribb... (show quote)
Sounds to me you're pretty much already made-up your mind and I can not see anything to argue with!
May 29, 2017 15:08:04 #
From my cruising experience, the 18-270 is all you will need. I had a 10-20mm that I never took out of the bag. Strobe stayed in the bag as well. Travel light.
May 29, 2017 16:30:02 #
jeff3450
Loc: UK
If you just want standard travel shots, I agree with Allan Catt, P&Shoot are the best, just take a spare battery. If you want to take bird or animals or extra wide-angle, perhaps you might want your Nikon. I normally just use 2 lenses - 16-35 and 100-400 and two bodies, but there is the cost factor and the weight, especially if you're walking a lot. Try some trial 'holiday' shots using the 18-270 - from architecture and land/seascapes to birds and animals at a distance. What you're looking for is subject sharpness in the images. Monopods have their place, but they can be a nuisance.
May 29, 2017 17:05:09 #
I would add a 50 mm f1.8 for portraits on formal nights. It is very small so it will not take up much additional space.
May 29, 2017 17:11:40 #
Been on five riverboat cruises; used my canon 6D with 28-135mm as a walk around lense along with 90-300 telephoto w/kenko 1.4 TC; no flash. the 6D works very well up to ISO 6400. No tripod; they do not work well on boats; just transmit vibration to the camera and are a problem in crowded areas. Have a great trip.
May 29, 2017 20:04:20 #
NJphotodoc wrote:
... Taking a cruise this summer to the Caribbean ... Thoughts??
On our last cruise - number 12 (mid May) I gave my Canon T4i (with extras) to my son and bought a Canon SX60 HS ... will be the 'camera kit' for all future cruises ... even down-sized from a laptop to a note-book ... feel better for it ... and, enjoying the learning experience with the SX60 - been shooting all week in "Manual" at f5.6 and changing the shutter speed (just got Brian Peterson's "Understanding Exposure" for my Kindle (and note-book) ...
Bob S
May 29, 2017 20:55:41 #
Tom47
Loc: Gettysburg, PA
Last cruse I used a 70 - 300 most of the time. I also take a monopod it doubles as a walking stick.
Jun 12, 2017 02:50:20 #
kb6kgx
Loc: Simi Valley, CA
jerryc41 wrote:
My experience with cruising is to bring a small camera. I've gotten good pictures, didn't annoy my wife with excess gear, and I enjoyed the cruises.
We’ve been on, I believe, six cruises and, until the one we just returned from last week, I’ve taken only a small pocket point-and-shoot with me and have taken some fairly decent photos with it. Between the last cruise prior and this most recent one, I have acquired a D7100 and a few lenses, including the 70-300mm f4.5-5.6G. Truthfully, almost all of the photos I took with the D7100 I could have gotten with the point-and-shoot, with the exception of the whale and eagle shots. For those, the small camera would have been useless.
Jun 12, 2017 03:00:01 #
kb6kgx
Loc: Simi Valley, CA
sirlensalot wrote:
Will not take any time to transfer images to a computer until we return home.
I have to disagree. After a near disaster on the last day of our first cruise where I nearly lost ALL of the photos I had taken, since then I took my laptop along as a place to transfer each day’s photos. I would load them into a photo program (iPhoto), into a separate “Photos” folder on the desktop AND onto a flash drive. Triple redundancy. No chances of making the same mistake I had made the first time.
Jun 12, 2017 03:01:50 #
kb6kgx
Loc: Simi Valley, CA
BebuLamar wrote:
I have never gone on a cruise but I think on a cruise you have a room right? So I would bring everything and leave them in the room. When you go out to shore you may make the selection of what you will bring then.
That’s what I did. On the ship, my 70-300 would have been useless. For on-ship photos, only the 50 was used. Sometimes the 105. For off-ship excursions, everything came with me.
Jun 12, 2017 04:30:42 #
On recent cruise to the Norwegian Fjords, I took D5600, 18-55 AF-P, 70-300 AF-P and Sigma 10-20. I used the 18-55 and the 70-300 a lot from the ship itself, the 10-20 was used only a few times when ashore for landscape shots where 18 was not wide enough.
If I was concerned about weight, I would have left the 10-20 at home and have been happy with the 18-55 and 70-300.
If I was concerned about weight, I would have left the 10-20 at home and have been happy with the 18-55 and 70-300.
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