Re: Lenses Needed for Rhine River Cruise?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (john chapman) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> In a few weeks I will be taking a river cruise on the Rhine River
> between Basel, Switzerland and Antwerp, Belgium with a side trip on
> the Mosel River.  I have visions of sitting on deck leisurely taking
> photos of castles and the like as we drift by.  My question is given
> the width of the rivers, what lenses do I have to take to do this.  My
> basic kit includes in long lenses a Nikon 80-200/2.8 AFS with Kenko
> Pro 1.4x and 2x extenders.  But I can also take my Sigma 50-500 AFS,
> which can also produce good results with the 1.4X even at 700mm. 
> However, given its weight and all the other photo equipment, I would
> prefer not to unless really necessary.
> 
> For those who address the photo aspects, can you give me some idea how
> wide the rivers are at various points?

One thing that has not been mentioned. After the middle of November or
so it is very overcast and very often foggy along the Rhein.
Photography is not often very good or possible. When we lived there we
took visitors to the Rhein gorge but in the winter often they saw
nothing on the heights because of fog.