Ireland Trip (Page 2): Understand that my travel equipment choices, what I shoot on vacation, and how I like to shoot is very different from most people. I don't want to be weighed...

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

gwilliams6 wrote:

Cheers and best to you. I will be 72 in July.

Understand that my travel equipment choices, what I shoot on vacation, and how I like to shoot is very different from most people. I don't want to be weighed down with equipment. I almost always shoot wider angle, not telephoto. I often shoot indoors in low light as well as outdoors. I don't shoot a lot of images and take time and care with each one. For my purposes I travel with my Nikon Z fc retro body and 3 Voigtlander manual focus fast prime lenses, as well as the Nikkor 16-50 kit lens, which I rarely use. I also take my very compact Peak Design carbon fiber travel tripod. Altogether, it is a very compact and lightweight kit.

My equipment choices, of course, are far different from most other members of this forum, but they work for me and the way I shoot. Does my choice of lenses limit me in some ways? Absolutely! But it also forces me to look at things with a different perspective and allows me to capture images I might not have even considered with a much larger and much heavier zoom lens.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

masonite wrote:

Thanks, but any use for the ultra wide?

Depends on what you like to shoot.
I went to Iceland with one body and an 18-200 and a 50 (1.4).
I traveled light.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

Longshadow wrote:

Depends on what you like to shoot.
I went to Iceland with one body and an 18-200 and a 50 (1.4).
I traveled light.

masonite

You are right, the lens is a 70-200 f2.8 and is heavy. So I'm leaving it home.

Thanks for your input.

Hip Coyote

Two things:

As I type this I’m on a road trip headed towards Glacier. My primary camera body just totally bricked. Three days into a 25 day trip. Luckily I have a second body with me. All Olympus gear. If I take one body I’m taking two.

I’ve been to Ireland a few times. Ireland demands wide wide angle shooting IMO. I’d take my widest lens. I see no reason to have a fast lens for interior shots.

gwilliams6

Hip Coyote wrote:

Two things:

As I type this I’m on a road trip headed towards Glacier. My primary camera body just totally bricked. Three days into a 25 day trip. Luckily I have a second body with me. All Olympus gear. If I take one body I’m taking two.

I’ve been to Ireland a few times. Ireland demands wide wide angle shooting IMO. I’d take my widest lens. I see no reason to have a fast lens for interior shots.

Yes even on vacation a camera can go down, take that second body. I also have been to Ireland a few times. Even though I made many wide shots, just like in Scotland, I found sometimes that the overlooked compositions with a longer focal length are so refreshing and different.

If you are near Dublin, I recommend a side trip to Enniskerry and its Powerscourt Estate and nearby falls, just spectacular. An easy day trip out of Dublin.
https://powerscourt.com/

Sorry, you know I am not shy about sharing photos, but my shots from there are in one of my boxes in my storage locker since I moved to Texas. I took a bus from Dublin and spent a few wonderful hours walking around and making shots, even in the brief rain shower we had that day, just a wonderful photographic experience.

Cheers and best to you,

Revet Loc: Fairview Park, Ohio

I just got back. We had to pack light so I only took one lens, a 16-80 for my D500. Not once did I wish I had something with a longer reach. Ireland is primarily landscape photography with 360 degrees of jaw-dropping beauty. At times I wish I had my wide-angle lens but I just stacked two images together in Photoshop to get the wide-angle shot I was looking for.

neillaubenthal

gwilliams6 wrote:

Take the 28-300mm (FX) and the 24-70mm (FX), and both cameras. Never go with a single camera body, or risk losing all your vacation shots if a body goes down.

I would not worry about having a f1.4 lens so much. Most of your photos will be outdoors. Yes I have been to Ireland and Scotland.

Cheers

Been there too…and I would add the Tokina, your recommended two only cover room or soup equivalent on the DX body…I found use for my DX 10-20 when I was there.

JFCoupe Loc: Kent, Washington

I spent two weeks along the Atlantic coast in Ireland in May this year. Probably used my Olypmus 12-100 for 95% of 4500 images. FFE is 24-200. I did shoot some images with my 7-14 (14-28) but the 12-100 was my workhorse.

Rick from NY Loc: Sarasota FL

Just out of curiosity, why would the gear a vacationing tourist takes to Ireland differ from the gear he/she would take to Scotland, England or Canada? You could take what any reply above suggests and plug the identical answers into a question asking, “What gear would you take to X?” Never quite understood questions like that.

masonite

Rick from NY wrote:

Just out of curiosity, why would the gear a vacationing tourist takes to Ireland differ from the gear he/she would take to Scotland, England or Canada? You could take what any reply above suggests and plug the identical answers into a question asking, “What gear would you take to X?” Never quite understood questions like that.

We're not all pros. Never having traveled overseas, just looking for what others have found most useful. I don't want to carry a bag full of equipment. I want to enjoy the trip and get some good shots while there. Shooting indoors and in close confines is a different matter than landscapes. So I'm just asking which of my available equipment will serve me best.

Dannj

Are you going on a group tour? Renting a car? Using local transportation? It matters because those issues impact mobility and time at various locations. Is it a vacation or a photo shoot? That matters also. Many people are comfortable with one “walk around” lens. You know your equipment and your goals so if one lens gives you the flexibility you want, that would be my suggestion. On my last trip to Ireland, the only folks I saw with an assortment of lenses were pros on a paid shoot.

RolandDieter

Your camera is APS, so with the crop factor your 28-300 is not really a wide angle, so I'd also take the 11-16. I used APS 11mm quite a bit when I was recently there.

gwilliams6

masonite wrote:

We're not all pros. Never having traveled overseas, just looking for what others have found most useful. I don't want to carry a bag full of equipment. I want to enjoy the trip and get some good shots while there. Shooting indoors and in close confines is a different matter than landscapes. So I'm just asking which of my available equipment will serve me best.

It seems like you would be most comfortable taking the D610 with that 28-300mm lens, and the D7100 with the 11-16mm lens. Both your D610 and D7100 are decent in low light, so skip the f1.4 lenses.

Everyone says you wont need anything longer than a wide lens, but many photographers just walk by and dont even see the excellent and different landscape compositions with a longer focal length in addition to the obvious wide angle compositions. As a longtime Professor of Photography at a state university, I try to help my students train their eyes to see more possible compositions.

Cheers and best to you.

ELNikkor

Ditto gwilliams6