Favorite Camera/Lens Combination for the Beach?

[gordonbb]

Summer is waning in the north and my mind is drifting to planning a getaway to someplace warm and beachy to escape the snow and ice.

What's your Favorite body and lens combination for taking to the beach? I'll start.

I like my 1Ds Mk II with the 17-40L

Why?
It impresses the locals who would recognize 10 year old technology
Even with 12-bit raw & only 16MP it still takes nice images
With a filter it is weather-sealed
It's not too much to lose if stolen or broken

And, if someone does try to mug you you can beat them to death with it and still take a picture of their lifeless body

 

[Ozarker]

Summer is waning in the north and my mind is drifting to planning a getaway to someplace warm and beachy to escape the snow and ice.

What's your Favorite body and lens combination for taking to the beach? I'll start.

I like my 1Ds Mk II with the 17-40L

Why?
It impresses the locals who would recognize 10 year old technology
Even with 12-bit raw & only 16MP it still takes nice images
With a filter it is weather-sealed
It's not too much to lose if stolen or broken

And, if someone does try to mug you you can beat them to death with it and still take a picture of their lifeless body

5D Mark III, 70-200mm, 400mm, and a 600 if I had it. Why? Because I am an honest perv. and that is why I go to the beach. 8)

I couldn't care less about impressing the locals or anyone else. In fact, I don't even want them to know I am there in my cabana beneath my extra large beach towel.

 

[gordonbb]

Hey, I think I saw you there

and I keep trying to tell my wife that this is an action shot of my son playing volleyball and the Ukranian Princess in the foreground is just coincidence

 

[Ozarker]

Hey, I think I saw you there

and I keep trying to tell my wife that this is an action shot of my son playing volleyball and the Ukranian Princess in the foreground is just coincidence

Yup! That's me! Canon Rebel XSi and EF-S 55-250mm / EF-S 17-85 Daytona Beach 2010... back in the olden days. I like your photos much more. I was just getting started and then got stranded in the purgatory that is the Mojave desert in Nevada.