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Originally Posted by yslee
I'm going to disagree with your lenses. Are you going for a holiday or a photoshoot?
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I somehow knew you'd chime in.
For me, there are two types of vacations:
1) Relaxing, sit on the beach in Mexico vacations where you don't have much planned, and your absorption of the culture is like a slow seeping. On those vacations I don't take many pictures. Maybe 1000 or so.
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2) High-activity, action-packed, invigorating exploration of the culture. There's not much lying around relaxing, it's about getting out and seeing different things, going to different places, and taking pictures of everything you can along the way. It pretty much is a photo shoot! I'll probably return with 3000 to 5000 photos initially, cull that down to 2000 pretty quick, and likely end up with 1000 or so keepers from the two weeks.
Japan is a #2 vacation - I have a tremendous respect and love for many aspects of Japanese culture and history, and I'm going there to spend two weeks awash in it. So for me, that means taking a lot of pictures and videos - capturing the essence of a place that I likely won't return to again in my lifetime. So, yes, that means packing my lenses - I don't want to be at a temple with my 24-70mm lens and be wishing I could take a wide-angle photo with my 12-24mm lens.
We're spending four days in Okinawa at the end, which is our relaxing beach portion...I won't be snapping many pictures when we're relaxing on the beach.
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Originally Posted by yslee
My personal belief is if it's a holiday where you want to experience the place it's best to travel light, not just with the camera, but with the mind. Trying to take good photos tends to take up a lot of brain activity...
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Thank you Mr. Miyagi - I'll practise waxing on and off on the way there.
We each have our own style of vacationing, and I've found that mine works great for me. I should point out, however, that that's all the gear that I'm bringing to Japan - it's CERTAINLY not all the gear I'm going to bring with me every time we go out of the condo/hotel...
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