"Dmitry" wrote in
news:Z0x0c.89826$4o.113910@attbi_s52:


targets on the snow. Snow usually throws their metering off
and they overexpose like crazy.

Thnk you mean underexpose. Meters want to make everything neutral
grey.

A polarizer will help with the sky and a neutral density filter
should keep you from situations where the snow is just too fast
for the camera.

As for zoom.. depends what you are taking.. if you are more
or less setting shots up than you can probably position yourself
close enough for the lower power zoom.