Lens Suggestion for Italy Trip

Steven Wandy <swandy RemoveThis @si.rr.com> wrote in
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> My wife and I are going on a tour of Italy for two weeks !!!
> I have the Olympus E330 with these lenses: 11-22, 14-54, 18-180,
> 40-150 and the 1.4TC. Our last long vacation was the Canadian Rockies
> and the 11-22 was the most useful. I realize that most of the places
> we will be visiting are urban areas - not large vista like the
> Rockies. I would like to limit myself to only one or two lenses. Any
> suggestions from people who have been there?

If you plan on visiting churches and the like, a fast wide angle lens would
be very useful. You don't want too much of a fisheye effect, though.
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18 - 180!!!

wow!

With this lens do you need any others?!

As with all things I suppose there is a tradeoff.

"Steven Wandy" <swandy.TakeThisOut@si.rr.com> wrote in message
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> My wife and I are going on a tour of Italy for two weeks !!!
> I have the Olympus E330 with these lenses: 11-22, 14-54, 18-180,
> 40-150 and the 1.4TC. Our last long vacation was the Canadian Rockies
> and the 11-22 was the most useful. I realize that most of the places
> we will be visiting are urban areas - not large vista like the
> Rockies. I would like to limit myself to only one or two lenses. Any
> suggestions from people who have been there?
> Thanks,
> Steve
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>Steven Wandy wrote:
>> My wife and I are going on a tour of Italy for two weeks !!!
>> I have the Olympus E330 with these lenses: 11-22, 14-54, 18-180,
>> 40-150 and the 1.4TC. Our last long vacation was the Canadian Rockies
>> and the 11-22 was the most useful. I realize that most of the places
>> we will be visiting are urban areas - not large vista like the
>> Rockies. I would like to limit myself to only one or two lenses. Any
>> suggestions from people who have been there?
>> Thanks,
>> Steve
>
>Any particular part of Italy? Mountains, towns, coast, islands; churches,
>a motor-racing circuit for the GP this weekend?
>
>What sort of pictures do you like to take?
>
>David
>
It is a bus tour (Tauck). Mostly staying in the larger cities, but
will make a lot of stops in the countryside - including the coast near
Sorento. (Unfortunately not the GP - we will miss it.)
Interested more in scenic than candid people shots, though will not
pass up interesting ones.
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>Steven Wandy <swandy.DeleteThis@si.rr.com> wrote in
>news:kcfof297m0oeenfvhi8e7dsi9e5to495b9@4ax.com:
>> My wife and I are going on a tour of Italy for two weeks !!!
>> I have the Olympus E330 with these lenses: 11-22, 14-54, 18-180,
>> 40-150 and the 1.4TC. Our last long vacation was the Canadian Rockies
>> and the 11-22 was the most useful. I realize that most of the places
>> we will be visiting are urban areas - not large vista like the
>> Rockies. I would like to limit myself to only one or two lenses. Any
>> suggestions from people who have been there?
>
>If you plan on visiting churches and the like, a fast wide angle lens would
>be very useful. You don't want too much of a fisheye effect, though.

The 11-22 and 14-54 are both 2.8-3.5 zooms, but there is a lot of
overlap betwen the two ranges. The 18-180 is slower (3.5-6.3) but is
very compact.
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Steven Wandy wrote:
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> It is a bus tour (Tauck). Mostly staying in the larger cities, but
> will make a lot of stops in the countryside - including the coast near
> Sorento. (Unfortunately not the GP - we will miss it.)
> Interested more in scenic than candid people shots, though will not
> pass up interesting ones.

If you are on a bus tour, time for photography will be limited compared to
going round on your own, so time for lens changing will be limited as
well. Could you manage with just the 18 - 180? If you need one more for
wide-angles inside churches etc. the 11 - 22 seems to be the obvious
choice.

You could get a second body to avoid the lens changing of course! And
perhaps that second body might be a non-SLR - a more compact camera for
those very quick grab shots and for the evenings when you don't want to
take the full DSLR outfit. You could even make some short movies with a
small camera, which can capture the essence of some events as well as a
still photo. BTW: you can get /some/ good shots through the coach
windows - be prepared for a lower percentage of keepers, though.

David
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Steven Wandy wrote:
> My wife and I are going on a tour of Italy for two weeks !!!
> I have the Olympus E330 with these lenses: 11-22, 14-54, 18-180,
> 40-150 and the 1.4TC. Our last long vacation was the Canadian Rockies
> and the 11-22 was the most useful. I realize that most of the places
> we will be visiting are urban areas - not large vista like the
> Rockies. I would like to limit myself to only one or two lenses. Any
> suggestions from people who have been there?
> Thanks,
> Steve

I would keep the 11-22 on the body and have one of the two long lenses
handy.

--
Joseph Meehan

Dia duit
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In article <44fc4dd8$1_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net>, John Ortt says...
> 18 - 180!!!
>
> wow!
>
> With this lens do you need any others?!
>
> As with all things I suppose there is a tradeoff.

Exactly. Aside from tradeoffs due to the huge 10x range (although the
18-180 gets surprisingly good results), there is the issue that this
lens starts only at 18mm, which corresponds to 36mm in 35mm equivalence.
Not too wide for architectural photography.
--

Alfred Molon
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Olympus E330 resource - http://myolympus.org/E330/
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In article <kcfof297m0oeenfvhi8e7dsi9e5to495b9.DeleteThis@4ax.com>, Steven Wandy
says...
> My wife and I are going on a tour of Italy for two weeks !!!
> I have the Olympus E330 with these lenses: 11-22, 14-54, 18-180,
> 40-150 and the 1.4TC. Our last long vacation was the Canadian Rockies
> and the 11-22 was the most useful. I realize that most of the places
> we will be visiting are urban areas - not large vista like the
> Rockies. I would like to limit myself to only one or two lenses. Any
> suggestions from people who have been there?

I would carry the 11-22, 14-54 and 18-180 with me. The 40-150 is not bad
for a kit lens, but is not too good either and is in any case covered by
the 18-180. You could use the 18-180 as your primary lens if you are not
too concerned about overall image sharpness.

By the way, see my Italy photo gallery at
http://www.molon.de/galleries/Italy/

Lots of panoramas and many images taken at the wide angle end.
--

Alfred Molon
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Olympus 50X0, 7070, 8080, E300, E330 and E500 forum at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
Olympus E330 resource - http://myolympus.org/E330/
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