How much gear to lug on my (hopefully) upcoming vacation

Sirius Glass said:

This Fall I am going to Europe… This time I am… taking one of the Nikon AF cameras… the Tamron 28mm to 300mm AF zoom lens, a Nikon 28mm manual PC lens, a Nikon 24mmAF lens, and a Nikon 20mmAF lens definitely. Possibly the Nikon 15mm AIS 110 degree wide lens and or the Nikon 16mm AIS Fisheye lens.

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I’m curious of these choices and would like to understand the (almost) overlaps of your selecting 28mm/28mm/24mm/20mm + 15mm/16mm. But for the 28-to-a-fisheye (or 28 to a 20) I might not even notice much difference. But that’s me. These are six lenses in near similar range (fisheyes excepted) including one relatively small/light zoom of up-to-300mm.

My amateur self would think take the zoom + one fisheye and done! Why so many 20’s? Teach me.

wiltw said:

I echo this...airlines outside the USA are much more strict about max weight and/or size of carryon baggage being small enough to fit --without maneuvering the bag -- into dimensional limit size checkers. Some allow 10kg, while some have 7kg limit.

Keep it small, unless shooting professionally and affording to be able to lose gear due to baggage theft. Check EVERY airline that you willl be flying.

Airline Luggage Restrictions

Carry-on Items The FAA has limited passengers flying within the United States to one piece of carry-on luggage and one personal item. Personal items may include: handbags, briefcases, laptops, daypacks and small backpacks. In addition to one carry-on and one personal item, passengers may bring...

www.luggagepros.com

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Agreed
Im always around between two continents and have gear in both places, I learned to check first and even call the airline if needed, sometimes when told beforehand they allowed stuff in the cabin if I gave it to the crew for the whole flight.
My saxophone and an oversized camera bag traveled that way a few times

Rrrgcy said:

I’m curious of these choices and would like to understand the (almost) overlaps of your selecting 28mm/28mm/24mm/20mm + 15mm/16mm. But for the 28-to-a-fisheye (or 28 to a 20) I might not even notice much difference. But that’s me. These are six lenses in near similar range (fisheyes excepted) including one relatively small/light zoom of up-to-300mm.

My amateur self would think take the zoom + one fisheye and done! Why so many 20’s? Teach me.

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I did use the Nikon Fisheye at the base of the Eiffel tower. By the way an Eiffel tower guard was very patient and quite pleasant waiting for me to remove the camera and all the film from my camera bag before the rest of the bag was xrayed. I arrived at 9 AM without reservations, waited about 15 minutes before the line moved. Got in to the base, took the photographs and then wasted a little time before I decided to go to the top leave. Then it took less than 15 minutes before I was at the top.