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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
08-09-2017, 10:20 AM
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That's never a bad choice!
We tend to over analyze gear the more we get, I feel. While it's nice to have the choice, at some point every choice becomes a compromise. That's not the kind of feeling I want to grab a camera and leave the house with. I'm far from having boiled my lens park down, though. The 40 mm is a prime example. If I didn't have it, I wouldn't have to consider it all the time.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
08-09-2017, 08:06 AM
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I feel you. Hope that you got over the fatigue, at last.
A radical suggestion: only bring the 40mm. Make your own single in-challenge, don't tie yourself down with the question over what lens to choose and delight yourself with one of the tiniest SLR-packages available. Nothing but taking photographs. Just slap it on the ME, bring a spare battery and then focus on the one thing when you finally get away from the conference.
Guaranteed end of photographers fatigue and less things to occupy your mind when there are so many things going on already.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
08-09-2017, 07:34 AM
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X-sync and B are manual. I never ran into an Av-capable Pentax camera from that era where it wasn't like that (had/have the ME, ME super, MV and K2DMD). I also haven't run into any transport issues with my ME super. This doesn't rule issues out in general, but I'd be more concerned with the sticky shutter, which is a much more common problem with both the ME/ME super, as far as my experience goes. Since you don't have a super, it's a moot point, anyway.
In that case I'd go for the MX. No electronic shutter to fail and much more fun to use, at least to me. Not that I ever ran into a drained battery. On a longer trip I'd rather take a spare one with me instead of relying on constant 1/125s.
If the 17mm is rectangular, that sounds like an interesting lens. If it was a fish-eye, I'd still bring another wide lens, because I'd use both for different purposes. With your selection I'd opt for 17mm + 50mm + 135mm for a rather compact kit. Following your philosophy that leaves some gaps, but rules aren't meant to be followed, are they?
I usually choose a kit of three out of a 16mm fish eye, 24mm, 35mm and 55mm. The 24 mm comes in when I decided against the 35mm or the fisheye. Smaller steps between focal lengths, but overall a smaller span to cover. Still keeps me at 3 lenses I'd take with me and I've not yet missed a longer lens. I've grown to like each of my lenses for their characteristics and each serves its own purpose, though. Maybe that's a factor to consider if you want to decide between say the 135 and the 80-200 zoom. So far the talk was mostly about covering focal lengths, size and weight of lenses, not their character.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
08-09-2017, 01:28 AM
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Wouldn't the ME super be ideal then? Complete manual override plus bonus of 1/2000 fastest shutter speed.
Can't really help with the lenses. In general I prefer primes. I'll ramble a bit about the 40, if you don't mind.
As a travel kit, the 40mm is tempting at first sight, especially with an MX or ME. In my case it stays at home often, though, as I wouldn't want to miss a fast 50 and the 40 isn't wide enough to set it apart I in that regard and earn it a seat in the bag. Rather than that, it's slow and technically not the greatest lens (If my preferred aperture was around f8 or so, I would take it with me instead of a 50), so it's not as much an allrounder as a 50, which kind of defeats its purpose of a travel lens. For a day walk and some snapshots I like it, though, hard to beat.
A, M, K, M42, it's all the same to an ME, aperture priority works with all of them - it's the only mode it offers. The A setting is not recognized by the ME, as the A on the lens is needed for shutter priority or program mode.
ME super lets you pick shutter speeds, but no Tv or P on that, either. A lenses behave the same as M or K on these.
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