Hi all,
The lady wife and I are off on a belated honeymoon in October getting the trans-mongolian railway from St Petersburg to Beijing via a few cities then a week and a half around China and Hong Kong.
To record our travels we will obviously be taking the cameras! We have a Nikon D80 and a D90, and are thinking about lenses or alternatives....
We have the 35mm and 50mm f1.8s. The 35mm will definitely be coming, as it lives on the wife's D80. We've got an 18-105mm kit lens which may well come. I've got a 105mm 2.8 AFS VR macro which I love, but I think will be too big and bulky.
So to the query, I'm hoping for some assistance on...
I'm thinking of possibly getting either a Tamron 17-55 f2.8 or 24-75mm f2.8 to replace the kit lens, or alternatively getting a Fuji x10 to use alongside one of the DSLRs and the 35mm f1.8 for low light.
The advantage of the X10 and single SLR will be low weight and bulk as well as being more discrete (I'm a bit concerned that Russia and China can be a bit funny at times with photographs being taken, and the X10 might be a bit more subtle).
So what are peoples thoughts? 18-55 f2.8, 24-75 f2.8 (both will have to be Tamron, can't afford Nikon!), X-10 or stick with kit lens????
John
The lady wife and I are off on a belated honeymoon in October getting the trans-mongolian railway from St Petersburg to Beijing via a few cities then a week and a half around China and Hong Kong.
To record our travels we will obviously be taking the cameras! We have a Nikon D80 and a D90, and are thinking about lenses or alternatives....
We have the 35mm and 50mm f1.8s. The 35mm will definitely be coming, as it lives on the wife's D80. We've got an 18-105mm kit lens which may well come. I've got a 105mm 2.8 AFS VR macro which I love, but I think will be too big and bulky.
So to the query, I'm hoping for some assistance on...
I'm thinking of possibly getting either a Tamron 17-55 f2.8 or 24-75mm f2.8 to replace the kit lens, or alternatively getting a Fuji x10 to use alongside one of the DSLRs and the 35mm f1.8 for low light.
The advantage of the X10 and single SLR will be low weight and bulk as well as being more discrete (I'm a bit concerned that Russia and China can be a bit funny at times with photographs being taken, and the X10 might be a bit more subtle).
So what are peoples thoughts? 18-55 f2.8, 24-75 f2.8 (both will have to be Tamron, can't afford Nikon!), X-10 or stick with kit lens????
John
