Should I bring my expensive camera to Europe?

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Sophia_e

I am going to Germany, Poland, Czech Republic and Austria and I am trying to decide whether I should bring my expensive Digital SLR Canon Rebel Camera which would take beautiful pictures but if I lost it or it got stolen I would have to save up for a long time to replace it... If I don't bring it I have another camera that I can bring that's just a little point-and-shoot and doesn't cost that much but wouldn't take as nice pictures. So what do you think I should bring?

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I've been living in Italy for the past 13 years and always take my good camera with me when I go out exploring. There have never been any problems. If you take care not to leave the camera lying around, you should be okay. What's the point of having the good camera if you don't take it on trips like this to capture the memories? I'm leaving for the Netherlands in a few minutes this morning and will actually be taking two cameras - the good one and one I can carry in a pocket. I always have that one with me in case I run across something interesting during the day.

Film lens for my digital camera?

arnold

I shoot with Canon 5D mk1 and I am planning to buy some film lens. I was looking at carl zeiss and voigtlander. I know somebody who uses a zeiss 50mm and an adapter for canon. I don't mind not having the auto focus since I shoot manual. I really like the sharpness and the colors it produces. I do own a couple of "L" and a prime. Any advise and websites where I can research?
Thanks

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Carl Zeiss makes 50 mm lenses specifically for Canon and Nikon cameras

Some history from Ken Rockwell's website:

"Some years ago Zeiss licensed Kyrocera of Japan to use the name Zeiss on some lenses. Zeiss decided to put these former Contax mount lenses in Nikon mounts instead, and that's how we get these ZF lenses. This lens was not made in Germany and it was not made in a Zeiss factory. It is made in Japan by Cosina." - KR

http://www.amazon.com/Zeiss-1-4-Planar-ZE-Cameras/dp/B001RL2OF0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1301337344&sr=1-1

Here is an adapter for Voigtlander to EOS camera.

http://www.rugift.com/photocameras/voigtlander-retina-canon-dslr-adapter.htm

You will notice that you will be using this lens in the fully manual mode.

For clarity, there is no such thing as a "film" lens. ALL Canon EF lenses are designed to be used on either 35 mm EOS cameras, full frame digital cameras (1D and 5D series) and any of the Canon EOS cropped sensor cameras.

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