Having spent a great deal of time lately with my F4 in hand searching for a few great travel/landscape photos there’s a lot I’ve learnt about working with the kit you have. I gave myself a tough assignment by shooting film and only using three manual focus primes. I initially reckoned that I would use the 28mm most frequently then the 50mm and followed by the 200mm. How wrong I was! The majority of the slides I shot in the mountains were done on the 200mm f4 with the 0.6 ND grad I had for the 28mm (having a common 52mm filter size made a huge difference and evidence Nikon use to have your best interests in mind). In fact my wide angle had very little use at all which was a complete surprise. Which leads me to my point, always be prepared but keep an open mind. The three primes gave me enough latitude to never be wanting a zoom and restrictive enough that I had to really think about the composition of each picture. It worked for the most part (despite many many lens changes) and certainly encouraged some creativity. The 200mm was also a stand out in its usability though I am eager to get hold of a 180mm f2.8 ED for comparison.
As usual I also shot most of the film at dawn and dusk (iPhone was king during the day for quick unobtrusive recording of the surroundings with some great panoramas) which at altitudes above 3500m is really worth hanging around for. The colours encountered at high altitude and the behaviour of light are evidently stunning. None more so than last light on the Nuptse wall and the South West face of Everest. This use of film and digital actually worked very well as the iPhone let me get on with the day and save the effort for when it counted. That is, when it was very very cold!