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Yes, that's right folks - I'm heading to South Africa for Xmas/NY and will be there for a total of 3 weeks. Based out of Cape Town (where my family lives), and with the use of a car for about a week, I plan on doing a LOT of landscape shooting. Unfortunately I won't be going to any safari parks, but one area I'm headed to does have wild roaming animals like zebra and springbok.
Earlier this year I was in no doubt that taking a digital camera would be a must as there would be no way I'd spend days and weeks developing and scanning a pile of film and also the weight consideration. However, I've decided to just 'go commando' and take ONLY film with me...
Question is... what do I take? Limitations on hand luggage mean I can take my Crumpler Muffin Half Top and fill it with cameras, filters and film. I've packed it with the following just to test how much I can take:
Bronica SQ-Ai medium format with WLF and 2 lenses - 50mm and 150mm (leaving the 80mm at home). This is the bulkiest lot, forcing me to leave one lens behind, but since I hardly use the 80mm, it's not so bad.
Contax G2 with 45mm f/2 lens. My new camera will certainly be going along for the ride and I've bought a new shoulder bag for it which has little compartments for film canisters and filters. No other lenses yet, but I'm thinking that 45mm length will be sufficient for travel purposes. Nice for bike rides and mountain hikes and rock scrambles on the coast line. I'd love to take my Minolta XG9 along with 50mm and 28mm lenses, but space is an issue and will probably just need to be content with the 45mm on my G2.
I'm not able to bring a tripod with me for the Bronnie as I won't have enough space, but I can always buy some cheapy tripod legs once there and take my Manfrotto head along... I was, however able to fit my monopod in the backpack, so it's some stability on the move if I don't use a tripod. I will be getting hold of a small flash unit for the G2 for any night time shots.
Now, film... I've been trying to work out how much developing will need to get done afterwards back in England, and TBH, I don't want to be spending days on end scanning stuff. Dev'ing is easy - it's the scanning that gets me down... I may be investing in a lightbox and loupe to check the film and send just the best ones for drum scanning. All the second bests I can scan myself...
For starters, I'm thinking of taking:
35mm - 2 x Velvia 50 and 5 x Ektachrome 100 for colour and 5 x HP5+ 400 for B&W
120 - 5 x Velvia 50, 5 x Astia 100, 5 x Provia 400X and maybe 10 rolls of Pan F+ 50 for B&W
Any more than this can be bought over there.
It will be very hot down there - any advice on film/camera storage? General discussion on the trip welcome
Earlier this year I was in no doubt that taking a digital camera would be a must as there would be no way I'd spend days and weeks developing and scanning a pile of film and also the weight consideration. However, I've decided to just 'go commando' and take ONLY film with me...
Question is... what do I take? Limitations on hand luggage mean I can take my Crumpler Muffin Half Top and fill it with cameras, filters and film. I've packed it with the following just to test how much I can take:
Bronica SQ-Ai medium format with WLF and 2 lenses - 50mm and 150mm (leaving the 80mm at home). This is the bulkiest lot, forcing me to leave one lens behind, but since I hardly use the 80mm, it's not so bad.
Contax G2 with 45mm f/2 lens. My new camera will certainly be going along for the ride and I've bought a new shoulder bag for it which has little compartments for film canisters and filters. No other lenses yet, but I'm thinking that 45mm length will be sufficient for travel purposes. Nice for bike rides and mountain hikes and rock scrambles on the coast line. I'd love to take my Minolta XG9 along with 50mm and 28mm lenses, but space is an issue and will probably just need to be content with the 45mm on my G2.
I'm not able to bring a tripod with me for the Bronnie as I won't have enough space, but I can always buy some cheapy tripod legs once there and take my Manfrotto head along... I was, however able to fit my monopod in the backpack, so it's some stability on the move if I don't use a tripod. I will be getting hold of a small flash unit for the G2 for any night time shots.
Now, film... I've been trying to work out how much developing will need to get done afterwards back in England, and TBH, I don't want to be spending days on end scanning stuff. Dev'ing is easy - it's the scanning that gets me down... I may be investing in a lightbox and loupe to check the film and send just the best ones for drum scanning. All the second bests I can scan myself...
For starters, I'm thinking of taking:
35mm - 2 x Velvia 50 and 5 x Ektachrome 100 for colour and 5 x HP5+ 400 for B&W
120 - 5 x Velvia 50, 5 x Astia 100, 5 x Provia 400X and maybe 10 rolls of Pan F+ 50 for B&W
Any more than this can be bought over there.
It will be very hot down there - any advice on film/camera storage? General discussion on the trip welcome