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The impact of weight reduction

The impact of weight reduction

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The impact of weight reduction

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- Depending upon your style of photography, weight can really start to matter. I do a lot of travel photography where I'm out for eight, ten, 14-hour days. And you get really energetic, you get ready to leave from the hotel, you've loaded up your backpack, you've got six lenses in there, everything you might need, a spare camera body, all sorts of stuff. "Oh, this is fine." You put it on your shoulders... three hours later, four hours later, you're feeling it. After walking, you know, four, five miles and you're carrying all this weight, it really becomes a burden, and it's very frustrating. There's really been two strategies. Sometimes I travel with a walkabout lens, something that goes from 28 to 300, and I take just one lens, but that's all about compromises. It looks huge, it's a lot of weight itself, and there's something attractive about just grabbing a few small lenses like this, that cover focal lengths and just dropping them in my jacket pockets and popping one on, switching…

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