dchew
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Thank Christian! The sunset image is a 2-image stitch. 90hr shifted 18mm each way, with slight post crops on each edge. Boy am I glad I brought the 90! I used it more than the 60xl.
This type of trip is great fun, but it can be a little frustrating at times for photography since we were always moving from place to place. There was little opportunity to 'go back when the light is right'. Except for the sunrises and sunsets, it really is a snapshot type of environment.
Because of that, I don't know if I would take both camera systems on a trip like this again. I would if I was hiking to a central place, then roaming around from a "base camp." 7/25 of the images above were taken with the Alpa (the sunrise image should have been taken with the Alpa, but the Sony was on the tripod and the light was changing fast while cooking breakfast). I brought the Sony basically because I could not figure out how to use the Alpa without taking off my pack. Although I do have a bigger Clik chest pouch, it was the thought of changing lenses with my pack on that stumped me, as well as losing the versatile ISO shooting that comes with the Sony. As it turned out, none of the above "snapshots" while hiking were taken with the Leica 90mm on the Sony; they were all with the 35mm. And most of the Sony images were shot at either 100 or 200 ISO - I think only three were above 200. So really I could have put the Alpa in the larger chest pouch with the 60xl attached and not brought the Sony. I would have added the sk150 though, because I really like that focal length.
Or, I could have just brought the Sony and a few more lenses. That probably makes the most logical sense. But as Tom predicted earlier in this thread, "One marvelous sunset or sunrise at camp and you'll be happy to have the Alpa."
Funny you say that about the area you live in. I live in Ohio; this was two plane flights away to Wyoming. I think you can hop on a train and get to the Alps faster! BTW, I will be in Vevey, Switzerland in early October if anyone wants to play in those hills
[Geoff - Sorry, my wife has to go on a business trip, and Switzerland trumped Silo City ]
Dave
This type of trip is great fun, but it can be a little frustrating at times for photography since we were always moving from place to place. There was little opportunity to 'go back when the light is right'. Except for the sunrises and sunsets, it really is a snapshot type of environment.
Because of that, I don't know if I would take both camera systems on a trip like this again. I would if I was hiking to a central place, then roaming around from a "base camp." 7/25 of the images above were taken with the Alpa (the sunrise image should have been taken with the Alpa, but the Sony was on the tripod and the light was changing fast while cooking breakfast). I brought the Sony basically because I could not figure out how to use the Alpa without taking off my pack. Although I do have a bigger Clik chest pouch, it was the thought of changing lenses with my pack on that stumped me, as well as losing the versatile ISO shooting that comes with the Sony. As it turned out, none of the above "snapshots" while hiking were taken with the Leica 90mm on the Sony; they were all with the 35mm. And most of the Sony images were shot at either 100 or 200 ISO - I think only three were above 200. So really I could have put the Alpa in the larger chest pouch with the 60xl attached and not brought the Sony. I would have added the sk150 though, because I really like that focal length.
Or, I could have just brought the Sony and a few more lenses. That probably makes the most logical sense. But as Tom predicted earlier in this thread, "One marvelous sunset or sunrise at camp and you'll be happy to have the Alpa."
Funny you say that about the area you live in. I live in Ohio; this was two plane flights away to Wyoming. I think you can hop on a train and get to the Alps faster! BTW, I will be in Vevey, Switzerland in early October if anyone wants to play in those hills
[Geoff - Sorry, my wife has to go on a business trip, and Switzerland trumped Silo City
]Dave
