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As I often do on slow evenings, I’m doing some mental planning for a race I have coming up (if COVID can screw off!) In theory I’ll be racing a 200km gravel cycling ride in July in Iceland (if anyone else is doing the rift, let me know, I’m sure an MFT landscape meet up would be sweet!), and since I’ll be on my bike for 10+ hours riding through some of the prettiest landscape on earth, I figured I’d see what the group’s ideal ultralight setup would be. While minimizing weight is nice, my real goal is minimizing volume, since I only have so much room in my bag.
My natural instinct would be a setup centered around a GM1, probably with the P12-32, P35-100, PL15, and P30 macro. I’d be missing an ultra wide, but Iceland is a place with sweeping landscapes, so tele might be more important than ultra wide. That said, the GM1 isn’t getting any newer, and the GX85 is pretty small as well and offers IBIS, something much appreciated when I leap of my bike shaking from effort to try and snag a shot. Of course Olympus bodies are also a possibility, but nothing there speaks to me for an ultra compact setup except maybe a 10.2 or something.
What are your thoughts? I look forward to seeing some interesting suggestions!
It’s one of my favorite places to shoot if anyone is ever on the fence about going. Last time I just shot with an X100F!
My natural instinct would be a setup centered around a GM1, probably with the P12-32, P35-100, PL15, and P30 macro. I’d be missing an ultra wide, but Iceland is a place with sweeping landscapes, so tele might be more important than ultra wide. That said, the GM1 isn’t getting any newer, and the GX85 is pretty small as well and offers IBIS, something much appreciated when I leap of my bike shaking from effort to try and snag a shot. Of course Olympus bodies are also a possibility, but nothing there speaks to me for an ultra compact setup except maybe a 10.2 or something.
What are your thoughts? I look forward to seeing some interesting suggestions!
It’s one of my favorite places to shoot if anyone is ever on the fence about going. Last time I just shot with an X100F!
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