Tips on travel
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Hey, I'm being asked to write up some tips on traveling with a digital camera. Ye travel veterans, can you chime in?
I suppose the big questions are how to not lose your precious photos, what to do when your memory cards fill up, how to find an Internet cafe, what to do when you find one, etc.
I suppose the big questions are how to not lose your precious photos, what to do when your memory cards fill up, how to find an Internet cafe, what to do when you find one, etc.
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* don't forget the battery charger(s)
* have ziplock bags handy, esp at the beach and humid/not humid (a/c) changing conditions
* have enough memory cards or a means to offload (laptop, port stg device)
* consider a carbon fiber monopod, unless you will for sure be doing lowlight landscape shooting, then a good tripod
* a camera backpack by lowepro or tamrac etc is really convenient but if you cannot carry that then a shooter's vest by lowepro really holds all the stuff you could need for a day out shooting.
* clean your lenses and filters *before* you set out for the day
* dbl check your neckstrap connections often
i'll think of more i'm sure
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I would then e-mail home the ones I chose to keep.
Tim
This may allow you to not have to download and store your images until you safely return home if the trip is just a few days and you are not shooting that heavily.
I download the MicroDrive to a laptop Hard drive and an Hitachi 5Gb PCMCIA type removable Hard Drive so that I always have at least two copies of my images. I store them on CDRs once I get home, but find caring for CDRs and burners on the road to be a chore.
On a motorcycle, I use an old P3 laptop without a CD burner, because I can use the Hitachi PCMCIA 5 Gb microdrive to backup data files on the hard drive. Old P3 laptops without CD burner can be bought on Ebay for a song. That way if you lose or break it in an untimely get off - no worries, mate. The data is still on the Hitachi PCMCIA drive - mine is about 4 years old and going strong.
This is just the way my storing images has evolved over the last 3 years.
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all good, but this one is great. make a post here on dgrin, looking for help from folks. also use other forums. over on stf at dpreview, there's at least a post a day regarding "tips for xxx city or place" great input, sid.
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I've had good results with a Digital Camera Battery model DCB60WB. http://www.digitalcamerabattery.com This is a 10 inch long, 2 3/4 lb slab of battery that is fixed into a modified UFO motorcycle waist belt system.
The belt also carries a 540EZ speedlight( modified to just shoot from the battery pack via a cable I converted never on AA's) a 30gig Nexvue VISTA for storage.
There is also a small first aid kit and a water bottle fixed. Other space for cleaning gear or whatever is there, it's a pretty big system.
It is a comlete kit but independent from my rucksack/camera bag. I only pick this gear up for an extended trip. It is a managable weight in addition to say the EOS + 200mm @ 12lb in the rucksack with 3-5l water etc.
I have attached extra security/closing fixings by adding additional military snap connectors where needed. A few large cable ties for stiching also helps.
It has survived for a three week trip into the Sahara and looks like it will last for many years. I've also used it with different contents for my bike trips to Nevada.
A good system.
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can i use this setup if i don't ride a motorcycle?
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The bag attached on the left with the red First aid kit is an addition and was the bag that came with my Olympus 5050.
So it fits that camera or the flash..
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You sure can Andy......
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:eek1 Jeepers, that's hardcore!
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Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au