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I think I obsess less about backups, batteries, HDDs, laptop etc. etc. when I just go with film. It's weird but I just toss the exposed film in the bag and forget about it until I get home. When I have the digital camera I tend to fuss a great deal more about multiple backups and cards and stuff. Oh, lately, however, I've been quite impressed by the Nokia N8 cell phone camera which goes with me everywhere, regardless of main camera. Here's one from yesterday:
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I just returned from 10 days in Istanbul. What a great city with some of the most gracious people I have ever met. Semrich gave us a tour of parts of the city we had not been to and showed us the public transportation system. Again a big thank you for that.
Now this thread started a few months ago and really this was the first trip where I might mix and match digital and film as before I was strictly a film user.
I ended up taking the Digitlux5 and Hasselblad 501. It was an okay combo but I only shot one roll with the blad. I had just received it and had to work to make a photo (unfamiliar ergonomics). I should have taken an M with a couple lenses and left the familiarization with the blad for another time.
I took a Domke F2 as my carry on and stuffed it with film, cameras, my nook, binos, and things needed for travel. Then in Istanbul I used a Bare Bones Bag for the street carrying just the essentials and leaving a lot of stuff in the hotel room. The unpadded BBB was great in it changed shape depending on what was carried. I never knew it was there until I needed it.
The DigiLux5 was just the perfect little camera for tourist snapshots and I will be using it a lot in the future. I put the EVF on it from Panasonic (half the price of the Leitz version) and it worked great along with the step zoom setting and having the camera remember the last focal length when it went into sleep mode or I turned it off.
And, unlike some American cities, there were plenty of stores selling film. And the film was in any size, emulsion, or make you could want. Instead of searching all over El Paso for exotic film (TriX 120) I should have just bought it there. Perhaps a thread on film avialability on this thread might be useful.
Am heading to Iceland and Great Britian in June and will be taking an M for black and white and the digilux for color. Same for Nepal this fall. I think the blad will be a camera on a tripod for use in the good old USA from either the motorcycle or my truck.
Lessons Learned
I just returned from 10 days in Istanbul. What a great city with some of the most gracious people I have ever met. Semrich gave us a tour of parts of the city we had not been to and showed us the public transportation system. Again a big thank you for that.
Now this thread started a few months ago and really this was the first trip where I might mix and match digital and film as before I was strictly a film user.
I ended up taking the Digitlux5 and Hasselblad 501. It was an okay combo but I only shot one roll with the blad. I had just received it and had to work to make a photo (unfamiliar ergonomics). I should have taken an M with a couple lenses and left the familiarization with the blad for another time.
I took a Domke F2 as my carry on and stuffed it with film, cameras, my nook, binos, and things needed for travel. Then in Istanbul I used a Bare Bones Bag for the street carrying just the essentials and leaving a lot of stuff in the hotel room. The unpadded BBB was great in it changed shape depending on what was carried. I never knew it was there until I needed it.
The DigiLux5 was just the perfect little camera for tourist snapshots and I will be using it a lot in the future. I put the EVF on it from Panasonic (half the price of the Leitz version) and it worked great along with the step zoom setting and having the camera remember the last focal length when it went into sleep mode or I turned it off.
And, unlike some American cities, there were plenty of stores selling film. And the film was in any size, emulsion, or make you could want. Instead of searching all over El Paso for exotic film (TriX 120) I should have just bought it there. Perhaps a thread on film avialability on this thread might be useful.
Am heading to Iceland and Great Britian in June and will be taking an M for black and white and the digilux for color. Same for Nepal this fall. I think the blad will be a camera on a tripod for use in the good old USA from either the motorcycle or my truck.
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Thanks for all the updates. I am always interested in the kind of gear people use when traveling, and why.
I would have used a RF and two lenses (28 and 35/1.4), and a digital like the S90 or GRD III.
I'm not sure I could do that, not unless I was shooting digital as well. I like knowing exactly when I took any given photo, so I'm often shooting digital and film concurrently. If I went away for a few weeks and only shot film, I would go nuts trying to piece together the exact sequence in which I shot.
I would have used a RF and two lenses (28 and 35/1.4), and a digital like the S90 or GRD III.
I'm not sure I could do that, not unless I was shooting digital as well. I like knowing exactly when I took any given photo, so I'm often shooting digital and film concurrently. If I went away for a few weeks and only shot film, I would go nuts trying to piece together the exact sequence in which I shot.