CruiseMark Posted March 31, 2023 #1 Share Posted March 31, 2023 Trying to decide on what photo gear to bring on a BKB voyage. I have a Canon 6D kit. I’ll obviously bring a wide prime for northern lights, a standard zoom for walk around. But what I’m unsure about is a telephoto zoom. I’m trying to envision what I’d be using it for. I have a 70-200 and could pick up a 70-300 pretty cheaply, but don’t know if I’d need longer than that. Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakridger Posted March 31, 2023 #2 Share Posted March 31, 2023 Hi @CruiseMark. Try asking your questions on the Cruise Critic photography forum. You should get a lot of responses over there. Photo & Camera Discussions - Cruise Critic Community Have fun in Norway!! ~Nancy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiseMark Posted March 31, 2023 Author #3 Share Posted March 31, 2023 3 hours ago, oakridger said: Hi @CruiseMark. Try asking your questions on the Cruise Critic photography forum. You should get a lot of responses over there. Photo & Camera Discussions - Cruise Critic Community Have fun in Norway!! ~Nancy Thanks, @oakridger, but that forum is pretty generic. I’ve been a photographer for 50+ years and know how to use my camera. I’m looking for lens recommendations for this cruise specifically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GottaKnowWhen Posted April 1, 2023 #4 Share Posted April 1, 2023 Sorry, what is a BKB? From the Hurtigruten siting and the comment above, I am assuming a Norwegian coastal? On my recent trip I used a medium format, 645Z, with a variety of lenses. I was surprised to find that I virtually never used my wide lens (35mm, 28mm equivalent in full frame), most often used my 55mm (=42mm) and 200mm (=160mm). When I needed wider, it was more convenient to compose a pano and stitch in LR later than to swap lenses. Stan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiseMark Posted April 1, 2023 Author #5 Share Posted April 1, 2023 (edited) 39 minutes ago, GottaKnowWhen said: Sorry, what is a BKB? From the Hurtigruten siting and the comment above, I am assuming a Norwegian coastal? On my recent trip I used a medium format, 645Z, with a variety of lenses. I was surprised to find that I virtually never used my wide lens (35mm, 28mm equivalent in full frame), most often used my 55mm (=42mm) and 200mm (=160mm). When I needed wider, it was more convenient to compose a pano and stitch in LR later than to swap lenses. Stan Thanks, Stan. BKB is the Bergen-Kirkenes-Bergen round trip Norwegian Coastal Express. I wish I could afford a 645Z! Edited April 1, 2023 by CruiseMark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyinby Posted April 1, 2023 #6 Share Posted April 1, 2023 (edited) On 3/30/2023 at 7:54 PM, CruiseMark said: Trying to decide on what photo gear to bring on a BKB voyage. I have a Canon 6D kit. I’ll obviously bring a wide prime for northern lights, a standard zoom for walk around. But what I’m unsure about is a telephoto zoom. I’m trying to envision what I’d be using it for. I have a 70-200 and could pick up a 70-300 pretty cheaply, but don’t know if I’d need longer than that. Thoughts? I looked at some of the exif data from my recent trip...I had a 28-300mm (camera) with me but wasn't sure how much of the telephoto I'd used. There were a lot of photos in the high 250-300mm (equivalent) zoom range. There are a lot of small settlements that almost look like toy model towns because the surroundings are so large, and the telephoto was nice to have. I also used my Leica D-lux7 a lot, with 24-70mm equivalent f/1.7 lens, and did have a lot of use of widest angle, and sometimes wished it went beyond 70. With the northern lights, I could have used a wider angle than the 24, but I didn't have one. Hopefully your prime is a relatively fast lens...with the ship motion, the longer exposures needed for northern lights are tricky. I was able to get it down on the Leica to under a second at ISO 1600 f/1.7 with the brighter northern lights (could have probably pushed it to 1/2 second, but had to use ISO 3200 on a not-so-bright night. The Leica is a 4/3 sensor, so you can probably push your ISO quite a bit higher than I did. The really fancy photos that are from land often use 10-15 seconds at low ISO, but it would be a messy blur from the moving ship, we just don't have that luxury. You could probably do a lot of the daytime photos with the 70-200 or 300, but it could be a hassle not having a wider angle, or at least it would be for me...even a 35-200 or similar might be more versatile. But then, the 70-300 would be handy at times, just keep your prime lens handy. As you can probably tell from above, I took smaller cameras, but there were plenty of SLR's in use out there on deck. Swapping lenses out in the wind would have been a pain. But you'll get some really nice photos no matter what, it's so photogenic out there. Edited April 1, 2023 by Flyinby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiseMark Posted April 1, 2023 Author #7 Share Posted April 1, 2023 Thank you, @Flyinby. Very helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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