agentlossing
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My wife and I are headed out at the end of this week for a two-week trip to Greece - from the chilly and rainy Pacific Northwest to the (probably) chilly and rainy Macedonia region and surrounds. Still worth it for the lack of crowds, we're thinking. We like to travel simply and be thrifty where we can, so we can enjoy things like food and drink, museums and archaeological sites, so we have a rental car booked from the Thessaloniki airport for the duration, and an Airbnb booked for the duration just outside the old town area. We plan to be making day and overnight trips to lots of places, as we feel like it, but also enjoying the food scene in Thessaloniki. We'd like to stay at multiple small hotels in towns we find interesting, to get a more local flavor. Kavala and Ioannina are certainly onvernighters, with Epirus, Chalkidiki and Olympos/Central Greece as regions we want to spend time in. We've been to Meteora once, but sure would not mind going again, and maybe staying in Kalambaka.
Any and all advice you can give is welcome! And, speaking of, my next topic is gear: right now I'm "blessed" with heavy cameras: Pentax SLRs/DSLRs. I'm not going to rent gear that I have to worry about on the trip, so I'm just going to deal with the fact that my camera and lenses are on the heavier side. I'm still debating between the K-1 mark II and the K-3 Mark III Monochrome. Both cameras are fantastic in their ways. The K-1 produces wonderful colors and tonal nuance, especially at low ISO values. The K-3 Monochrome is, however, a bit smaller and lighter, much faster to operate, and, importantly, can charge via USB. The K-1 is tethered to a wall charger, which has to plug into a Euro adapter. The batteries are the same, so I'll take two, but they charge a lot faster, and can charge off a power bank, in the Monochrome. If I take the latter, I will probably also take my Konica C35 with color film (Ultramax and the new 100-speed Kodak film). Color negative would do quite well with Greece's colors, too. My shooting methodology would be somewhat different, with color being the more snapshot style, and monochrome for more serious, artistic shots.
Lens-wise, I have quite a few right now, covering moderately wide to telephoto, so I'll take some combination to give me decent coverage. Most of them will be primes, most are small and relatively light for what they are. A couple of zooms might work their way into the mix. Main limitations will be what I want to take on the flights. We're traveling with one checked bag each, but no carry-on, just backpacks. Those are limited to a little under 9 pounds, so I need to be frugal with weight. Can't bring the whole kit and kaboodle.
Any and all advice you can give is welcome! And, speaking of, my next topic is gear: right now I'm "blessed" with heavy cameras: Pentax SLRs/DSLRs. I'm not going to rent gear that I have to worry about on the trip, so I'm just going to deal with the fact that my camera and lenses are on the heavier side. I'm still debating between the K-1 mark II and the K-3 Mark III Monochrome. Both cameras are fantastic in their ways. The K-1 produces wonderful colors and tonal nuance, especially at low ISO values. The K-3 Monochrome is, however, a bit smaller and lighter, much faster to operate, and, importantly, can charge via USB. The K-1 is tethered to a wall charger, which has to plug into a Euro adapter. The batteries are the same, so I'll take two, but they charge a lot faster, and can charge off a power bank, in the Monochrome. If I take the latter, I will probably also take my Konica C35 with color film (Ultramax and the new 100-speed Kodak film). Color negative would do quite well with Greece's colors, too. My shooting methodology would be somewhat different, with color being the more snapshot style, and monochrome for more serious, artistic shots.
Lens-wise, I have quite a few right now, covering moderately wide to telephoto, so I'll take some combination to give me decent coverage. Most of them will be primes, most are small and relatively light for what they are. A couple of zooms might work their way into the mix. Main limitations will be what I want to take on the flights. We're traveling with one checked bag each, but no carry-on, just backpacks. Those are limited to a little under 9 pounds, so I need to be frugal with weight. Can't bring the whole kit and kaboodle.
