Expedition Photographers - What do you take?

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I'm off on a weeks trip by bike in the Cairngorms early next year, to take pictures for a magazine. More action shots, than landscapes.

Ideally I'd take all my lenses cameras, flashes etc etc, but practically need to trim down what I take to the minimum.

So I thought I'd take my GF1 + 2 batteries, a couple of lenses, two flashes skyports and maybe small tripod.

I could do with some way of recharging the batteries, solar is a possibility, but not sure how much sun there will be. Is there another solution?

Any other suggestions?

ta Rich
 
The other battery solution is probably buying a load of chinese rechargable batteries for your camera on ebay, charging them before you go, and selling them when you get back, sadly...

Other than that, it sounds like a good kit, as long as you are confident that you can produce the quality of shots needed without using your larger cameras/lenses :)
 
itsdavedotnet said:
The other battery solution is probably buying a load of chinese rechargable batteries for your camera on ebay, charging them before you go, and selling them when you get back, sadly...

Other than that, it sounds like a good kit, as long as you are confident that you can produce the quality of shots needed without using your larger cameras/lenses :)
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Well I've not got the GF1 yet, so hard to say for sure. Though having seen other folk's results with the camera, I've no doubt it'll be up to the job. :)

Afaik the GF1 has some sort of encoded battery, which means 3rd party ones won't work. Plus the other problem is if it's cold which it may well be any batteries will be quite inefficient.
 
AliB said:
No way you can rig a dynamo off the bike? :)
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Has to be the best idea. The GF1 is a power hungry little monster and also, charging as you ride would be pretty cool too. :)
 
I'll see what google turns up.

Iirc correctly bike dynamos are under 6v. The Gf1 battery has a voltage of 7.2.
 
Step up bucket capacitor would deal with the voltage difference.

However, perhaps a wind based solution would be better? Then it could charge overnight as well.
I believe there have been a couple of home-made solutions, charging 12V batteries.
 
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