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<blockquote data-quote="Geoffc" data-source="post: 488214" data-attributes="member: 8705">I'm off to Mallorca at the weekend for a week with my wife and mother for what will probably be a fairly relaxed affair with no agenda, particularly not around photography. I'm trying to decide whether to take a minimalist kit of my D800, 24-120, 105 Macro and Fuji X100T, or just take the X100T with convertor lenses. My wife is also taking her D7100, 18-200 and Tamron 90mm Macro. When I put all of the stuff in my messenger bag it will be around 10kg. My dilemma is caused by my wife taking a DSLR, not because I can't get by without one. I know if we are somewhere that needs a bit more reach than 50mm equiv I will be jealous of her longer lens. Also if she decides to spend a few hours shooting bugs in the nice bright sun it will be the same. I could take my 7100 body instead of the 800 but that doesn't save much on the grand scheme of things.So, do I man up and just take the Fuji, or admit defeat and adopt my usual strategy of taking things I probably won't use, but will hate lugging around? I was actually reading about a guy earlier who said the best thing about replacing his DSLRs with the X100 was not having to make any decisions when leaving the house anymore. Now I'm not contemplating getting rid of my Nikon's but I do totally appreciate his point.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geoffc, post: 488214, member: 8705"] I'm off to Mallorca at the weekend for a week with my wife and mother for what will probably be a fairly relaxed affair with no agenda, particularly not around photography. I'm trying to decide whether to take a minimalist kit of my D800, 24-120, 105 Macro and Fuji X100T, or just take the X100T with convertor lenses. My wife is also taking her D7100, 18-200 and Tamron 90mm Macro. When I put all of the stuff in my messenger bag it will be around 10kg. My dilemma is caused by my wife taking a DSLR, not because I can't get by without one. I know if we are somewhere that needs a bit more reach than 50mm equiv I will be jealous of her longer lens. Also if she decides to spend a few hours shooting bugs in the nice bright sun it will be the same. I could take my 7100 body instead of the 800 but that doesn't save much on the grand scheme of things. So, do I man up and just take the Fuji, or admit defeat and adopt my usual strategy of taking things I probably won't use, but will hate lugging around? I was actually reading about a guy earlier who said the best thing about replacing his DSLRs with the X100 was not having to make any decisions when leaving the house anymore. Now I'm not contemplating getting rid of my Nikon's but I do totally appreciate his point. [/QUOTE]

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