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Assessing your lens options

Assessing your lens options

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Assessing your lens options

There are a lot of reasons to travel: the opportunity to see things you haven't seen before, to explore different cultures, to meet different kinds of people. And of course, it might give a reason to by new lens, or maybe you already have a lot of lenses. Either way you're going to need to think about what lenses are appropriate for the type of trip that you're going on. Now if you're going on the type of excursion where you've got someone else to carry your stuff and you're going to be living in someplace where there is plenty of storage, then maybe you go ahead and take all of your lenses with you. Most of us though, if we have a selection of lenses, need to take a subset of those lenses where you're trying to travel little more lightly and only carry what we're going to need. That means that we have to really make some decisions ahead of time about what is going to the best lens choice to take. Obviously if you're not taking a SLR, this is not an issue that you'll face. So where do…

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