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Hi all, this is pretty much an unanswerable question but thought it would be interesting to discuss. IT will vary I guess depending on what your preferences of photography are but interested to hear thoughts, especially from those who have travelled with camera gear over a long period of time.
In an ideal world I'd probably buy a lovely m43 system but its not really an option money wise as I need to keep my SLR. I want to travel as light as possible and unfortunately a lump of my weight will be the camera gear.
I'm mainly into landscape photography though it would be nice to try some street / maybe portraits. Heading to india, asia, nz, usa, iceland
I'm thinking of taking the following:
Lumix LX7 - for more discreet situations where I don't feel happy with SLR out, will nearly always be on me and is a very capable little camera.
5D mkII - might upgrade to 6d before I go depending on what I save
16-35 F4IS - will be on the camera most of the time, excellent for landscapes / street
50mm f1.8 - weighs nothing, and fun for night / portraits / etc
tameron 70-300 VC - for pretty much anything else, I quite like taking landscapes with teles. I bought this to take over my canon 70-200f4 due to less conspicuous colour and worth less so happier to leave in backpack and reasonable image quality for price
I've considered taking my 85mm f1.8 prime instead of 70-300 and 50 but I think I've decided on the above - what are your thoughts?
I was also going to take this tripod which I have to say is plain awesome (http://www.wexphotographic.com/blog/velbon-ultrek-ut-43d-tripod-review) but at 1.5 kg thinking of taking a much lighter mini one so if I want to do some long exposure shots I can still do so. I'm planning on backing up my photos etc using my galaxy note3 and hard drive and doing simple raw editing on it until I get back to my mac (again to save weight).
In an ideal world I'd probably buy a lovely m43 system but its not really an option money wise as I need to keep my SLR. I want to travel as light as possible and unfortunately a lump of my weight will be the camera gear.
I'm mainly into landscape photography though it would be nice to try some street / maybe portraits. Heading to india, asia, nz, usa, iceland
I'm thinking of taking the following:
Lumix LX7 - for more discreet situations where I don't feel happy with SLR out, will nearly always be on me and is a very capable little camera.
5D mkII - might upgrade to 6d before I go depending on what I save
16-35 F4IS - will be on the camera most of the time, excellent for landscapes / street
50mm f1.8 - weighs nothing, and fun for night / portraits / etc
tameron 70-300 VC - for pretty much anything else, I quite like taking landscapes with teles. I bought this to take over my canon 70-200f4 due to less conspicuous colour and worth less so happier to leave in backpack and reasonable image quality for price
I've considered taking my 85mm f1.8 prime instead of 70-300 and 50 but I think I've decided on the above - what are your thoughts?
I was also going to take this tripod which I have to say is plain awesome (http://www.wexphotographic.com/blog/velbon-ultrek-ut-43d-tripod-review) but at 1.5 kg thinking of taking a much lighter mini one so if I want to do some long exposure shots I can still do so. I'm planning on backing up my photos etc using my galaxy note3 and hard drive and doing simple raw editing on it until I get back to my mac (again to save weight).