Terry
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My Gear:
Before leaving one of our fearless leaders was trying to convince me to take (which meant buy) a Think Tank backpack. I didn't give in and took Andy Biggs' Kiboko bag. Need to send Andy an email as the backpack is simply outstanding (we had 2 on the trip and a third who owns is regretted not bringing it along). It is so well thought out and sorted out I just love it. While the thought was that it was going to be too big, I didn't find that at all. In addition, the waist and chest straps made a huge difference in hiking with the bag. Walking in a lava field and lots of other places in Iceland is not simple.
1) I am glad I only went with one Sony body with the backup being a micro 4/3 system. Used the 24-70 and 70-300 a lot. Sigma 12-24 was important but not used that much. The 135 f1.8 could have stayed home. I left the 24-105 at home and probably should have taken it. When I look at the Canon equivalent lens the Sony is less than half the size. Love the in body stabilization. I have one Sony glitch that I need to sort out. It was user error but I filled the CF with puffins. To keep going I switched to the memory stick. When that was full, I pulled a new CF card. I think the memory stick actually got reformated by mistake as "card in use" probably wasn't switched back on the menus. Lesson learned is just use CF and make sure to get some really big ones.
Micro 4/3 - loved having it there with me. The G1 is much more practical with the articulating screen and EVF took the Pany 7-14, 14-45, 45-200, 25 lux. Also took the two Oly kit lenses and a Leica M mount 50 lux. Never touched anything other than the Panny 7-14, Oly 14-42 and the Panny 45-200. Kept trying to lift the E-P1 to eye level. I did enjoy having the video of the E-P1 which I started using too late into the trip. The small light body was easy to carry when the walking was more precarious. The 7-14 lens on both cameras is fantastic. I like ultra wide shots.
Grad Neutral density filters were a must and I had to borrow. Will be first on my list to acquire. A three stop is a must. (polarizer and ND are also musts for the many waterfalls/streams/rivers.
The "nexto" for backup seems to do a good job. Will be looking into one soon.
What I NEVER thought I would say....video! I have a couple of fun ones from the trip to work on learning iMovie (taken with Oly). There were definitely instances where video footage was fun to take and could be used creatively. After this trip (we did have a 5DII along as well), I can definitely see the convergence of stills and video.
More as I think of it.
Before leaving one of our fearless leaders was trying to convince me to take (which meant buy) a Think Tank backpack. I didn't give in and took Andy Biggs' Kiboko bag. Need to send Andy an email as the backpack is simply outstanding (we had 2 on the trip and a third who owns is regretted not bringing it along). It is so well thought out and sorted out I just love it. While the thought was that it was going to be too big, I didn't find that at all. In addition, the waist and chest straps made a huge difference in hiking with the bag. Walking in a lava field and lots of other places in Iceland is not simple.
1) I am glad I only went with one Sony body with the backup being a micro 4/3 system. Used the 24-70 and 70-300 a lot. Sigma 12-24 was important but not used that much. The 135 f1.8 could have stayed home. I left the 24-105 at home and probably should have taken it. When I look at the Canon equivalent lens the Sony is less than half the size. Love the in body stabilization. I have one Sony glitch that I need to sort out. It was user error but I filled the CF with puffins. To keep going I switched to the memory stick. When that was full, I pulled a new CF card. I think the memory stick actually got reformated by mistake as "card in use" probably wasn't switched back on the menus. Lesson learned is just use CF and make sure to get some really big ones.
Micro 4/3 - loved having it there with me. The G1 is much more practical with the articulating screen and EVF took the Pany 7-14, 14-45, 45-200, 25 lux. Also took the two Oly kit lenses and a Leica M mount 50 lux. Never touched anything other than the Panny 7-14, Oly 14-42 and the Panny 45-200. Kept trying to lift the E-P1 to eye level. I did enjoy having the video of the E-P1 which I started using too late into the trip. The small light body was easy to carry when the walking was more precarious. The 7-14 lens on both cameras is fantastic. I like ultra wide shots.
Grad Neutral density filters were a must and I had to borrow. Will be first on my list to acquire. A three stop is a must. (polarizer and ND are also musts for the many waterfalls/streams/rivers.
The "nexto" for backup seems to do a good job. Will be looking into one soon.
What I NEVER thought I would say....video! I have a couple of fun ones from the trip to work on learning iMovie (taken with Oly). There were definitely instances where video footage was fun to take and could be used creatively. After this trip (we did have a 5DII along as well), I can definitely see the convergence of stills and video.
More as I think of it.
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