Thread: What gear for O/S holiday?

Originally Posted by p38arover

I don't use my cameras that much any more. I've lost interest in photography.

Well that's all sort of sad I think you provided your own answer. A small portable camera. No need to lug heavier stuff around if you never look at it

Me .. I take the DSLR (currently a Canon D6 with 24/105mm), for some reason I persist in taking the big heavy lens as well (100/400mm), and really its only a few times that I need it so leaving it at home if I want to be really portable could be my choice next time .. and I leave the small portable camera behind, no use carrying 2. I used to carry battery packs and tripods, flashes etc but no longer. The D6 I can push the ISO for most locations and I just recharge as I go.

I am selective nowadays on what I take, and then I cull them savagely, and put the remaining few in a best folder. I have started to put the highlights of these, yep, culled again into photobooks .. call it my best work and happily skim them occasionally and show friends. The good thing is that their are not many shots and each has to be a really good shot so people don't loose interest. Nothing worse than having to wade thru a 100 photos of somebodies with, and we went here and look at this

So bottom line, maybe approach your photography differently, look for those very few amazing photographs that you would interest others, package them into a printed book.

Enjoy your holiday.

I don't cull much because I don't look at them after after transfer. I don't show anyone my pics except when I was going to the camera club but I haven't been to it this year. I should because I'm the webmaster and I haven't been updating the website either.

I should cull as my HDD is getting rather full.

We could all come around for a (digital) slide night Ron. I'm sure that would get your interest back.

Er, um. No, it's OK, Scott.

Unless, of course, you bring along someone for life modelling.....

I forgot that another option I have is to just take my Fuji Finepix bridge camera. One problem with it is I'd need more memory cards and XD cards are quite expensive compared with SD.

I am facing the same dilemma, I will be travelling to Greece in two week time, should I take my 5 kg DSLR back pack or the 400g of the G11?

The advantage for you is that the G11 has a viewfinder. The Pentax Q doesn't and it's impossible, in bright sunlight, to see the screen to compose the shot.

I'd use the Fuji S5500 except that I don't have much memory for it and XD cards are quite expensive compared with SD, e.g., $20 for a 2GB XD card. I have lots of SD cards ranging from 2 to 32GB.

For a recent three-month trip to France and the UK I bought a Sony RX100M2 (with GST refund under the tourist refund scheme). The 1" sensor produces the best quality images of any compact camera and is especially good in low light. It is genuinely pocketable - I carried it in a belt pouch and hardly knew it was there. Of the more than 3800 pictures I took very few were technical duds.

Buying another camera might get me shot.