I would definitely do a 35mm prime over an 85-200mm lens. That is too zoomed in. The trip the time before I used my new 22-70mm 2.8 which worked pretty well. This time I tried my 18-200mm thinking that with the extra wide and zoom it would work better. Loved it for outdoor photos, but still needed to change to my 2.8 whenever I went inside somewhere, so maybe I would have just been better off with the 2.8 the whole time. I tended to shoot in P mode because I didn't want to miss a shot trying to set my M settings, which worked well regardless of which lens I had on, I was just better off with the quicker lens inside.
Have so much fun!!
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