It was a good trip. It was for work, so not a lot of time to wander, but I did well enough.
The 24-35 stayed on the camera nearly the whole time. It was a really good choice (though for future reference, 24mm doesn't quite cover the Arc de Triomphe unless you want to step into the street and place your life in the hands of Parisian drivers...). Maybe I'll take a 20mm next time
I couldn't take shots at the Arc like the longer ones some of you posted because the police had cordoned off much of the street there and didn't want folks wandering through with cameras (or at all, really).
The 50 mm did well where you'd expect, like the Eiffel from the Trocadero...
In retrospect, the 135 mm would have been different but about as useful, just better for different things.
On the accessory side, I took a af160sa flash (the cheap boxy one). It worked great the couple times I used it, even in auto...
I also took a Manfrotto mini tripod. Very good choice. I wouldn't put a K1/300f4 on it, but the MX is perfect.
Film-wise, XP2 was a good choice, speed-wise, though the scans I had done locally are too low-resolution to see how it really looked.
The K1 is about to find out how good it is at scanning negs from its older cousin...
Here are a couple...
From the middle of Neuilly-sur-Seine, with the camera propped on my chest with the tripod and the exposure about as low as the meter would go...
And dry beans at the Neuilly market. It's three times a week, and I'm amazed how something that robust (people roasting chicken and refrigerators on site) can go up and come down as fast as it does.
And I'm not sure what to say about this... It's the Louis Vuitton Foundation, and it demonstrates what I'll call a French fearlessness with modern architecture that is not always successful.
I'm sure there are more official terms for folks who actually, well, know something about architecture...
There are better angles, too, but the vertical bar on the left is part of a large glass demi-wall that runs 20-30 meters along the side. From this angle it nearly vanishes...
-Eric