Originally posted by dadipentak Sometimes I'll go out with appropriate gear for a specific objective. Other times, I'll just grab the camera with a more-or-less whimsical selection of lenses and see what they show me.
Yep. I went walking in the woods beside the river a couple weeks ago and decided to bring along more lenses than I typically would... 8mm fisheye, 15mm ltd, 31mm ltd, 77mm ltd, 100mm macro. Ended up using the fisheye and the macro by far the most, and wishing I'd schlepped along the 60-250 that I left in the trunk when I ended up seeing a bunch of wild turkeys and a couple of hawks. The FA limited lenses are fun for isolating nearby subjects, but they make pretty boring landscape lenses (at least, in the woods where there's still very little green to be seen) and I got tired of messing with fringing in post. The 15mm is usually one of my favorites, but I didn't really like much from that, either.
I just always try to make sure I have something wide, and ideally something normal-long, even if it's just the 15mm and 40mm xs. You can always crop down a bit, but stitching together to make up for not having a wide angle is a pain, especially when the subject isn't static and you didn't lug along a tripod.