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Originally Posted by SebC

My personal opinion: if you're not looking for background blur, and you're shooting in daylight, any camera with a zoom lens is fine, and manual exposure is nice. If you're looking to do nightscapes, you need manual exposure and a tripod.

If you're doing low light with movement, tracking fast subjects, or trying to get bokeh (background blur, typically for portraiture), then the camera/lens starts to matter a lot more.

I wouldn't want to travel with a single prime lens. I'd want a zoom!

A zoom... or two primes