{"id":9493,"date":"2018-02-25T01:10:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T01:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilbil.com\/?p=9493"},"modified":"2018-03-07T14:10:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T14:10:24","slug":"camera-bag-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilbil.com\/2018\/02\/25\/camera-bag-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Camera bag thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I own and maintain a pretty mean and lean camera kit. I have a 50mm lens, and it covers \u201cmost\u201d things since I am attached to the zoom portion of this lens (my feet). However, I wanted a wide-angle lens for this trip, and something longer than a 50mm would be nice. So I opted for renting a lens. I have worked with <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lensrentals.com\">Lens Rentals<\/a><\/span> for years, and they are an outstanding place to try new equipment. I rented the grand-daddy zoom lens, the Canon 24-70mm 2.8 II, and was so happy to use this lens again. There were a few times I wish I could have had a wider or a longer lens, but for 90% of the time, this lens did the job. Very well. It was the only lens I brought. I took a small speedlite with me too. If you are going to the trouble to bring an SLR, renting a lens is worth considering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I own and maintain a pretty mean and lean camera kit. I have a 50mm lens, and it covers \u201cmost\u201d things since I am attached to the zoom portion of this lens (my feet). However, I wanted a wide-angle lens for this trip, and something&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilbil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilbil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilbil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilbil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilbil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9493"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wilbil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9517,"href":"https:\/\/wilbil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions\/9517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilbil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilbil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilbil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}