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From: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: what photo equip to take to europe (a query)
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 23:55:18 EST
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In article <1647@hound.UUCP> rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) writes:
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>My advice, based on one trip to England last summer, would be to get
>a 28-80 zoom and leave all the other lenses home. 

I enthusiastically agree.  The Vivitar Series 1 28-90 is a good one, but be
warned, it is not a true zoom, but a "varifocal" lens.  If you are
interested in both B & W and color, a good toy to put in your pocket is a
Minox 35GT.  They can be picked up for $109 plus shipping from the New York
mail order houses.  I wandered all over England a few years ago with XP1
film in that and Kodachrome in a Rollei 35.   In general, the Minox has
proved to be quite a workhorse simply because it is in my pocket 100% of
the time.  Normally, it has 400 asa XP1 in it, but on vacations or other
special circumstances I have been known to put Ektachrome 200 in it.  My
philosophy these days is to carry fast film in pocket cameras and save the
slow stuff, e.g. Kodachrome, for the SLRs.

-- 
Herb Kanner
McDonnell Douglas (TYMNET)
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