Back again to Santorini as we seem to enjoy this particular place.

Just a quick note about lens choices for Santorini. When we visited the isle for the first time, I took a 20-70mm zoom as my go-to lens and a 24mm f1.4 as a low light lens. The zoom placed me on the safe side and as I had no tripod, the 24mm allowed me to catch some nice low light moments. A ricoh griiix was part of the trip, allowing me to catch street shots unoticed (no one bother anyway, as most were taking selfies).

For the second trip, I left the 24mm f1.4 at home, took the zoom for the new places I had planned to visit and took a 14mm f1.8 for night shots and snug places, and also a 85mm f1.4. A fuji x100vi was also in the luggages.

A few notes for those who might have similiar choice to do; cities cry for wide angles as the streets are narrow. But they are packed with tourists, thus a short telephoto or zoom is more appropriate. Also, Santorini can be very windy with dust flying all over the place. Changing lenses is then not a good idea. Even the fuji had a filter attached to protect the fixed lens.

The 85mm was the focal I was the most unsure about. And it was the one I enjoyed the most. It allowed me to take beautiful portraits (after all it’s a portrait lens) but I was also able to take nice low light and closeup shots.

Oia
Some church
I spent some time discussing with an old man doing his daily walk. He was complaining about too many tourists and prices increase.
Volcanic isle
Red beach. Which in itself illustrates the paradox of our economy; the access to the beach is forbidden due to stones fall, there is even a huge sign post at the entry. And at the same time, it’s a tourist destination with accomodations (parkings, restaurants, shops, etc). Enter at your own risk.
Windmill
The comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS or C/2023/A3, which I didn’t plan to shot at all. The next evening it was gone.
Moon set

Now, I have no idea which pictures was taken with what (lens, camera), unless I read the exif. How funny how gear matters until it doesn’t.