What Camera Lenses To Bring To New Zealand

I am about to leave on a 2 calendar week trip to New Zealand with Paula, and thought I would post a quick summary of the photographic camera gear I am taking, which is most of my camera gear (but not my new drone). As I've mentioned before, I am very into traveling light, and as usual I managed to fit everything for this trip, including photography gear and apparel, into a single carry on handbag (my Tom Bihn Aeronaut). Okay, I cheated slightly in that we are going to a wedding at the end of the trip, and my suit for the wedding is in Paula's suitcase which she is checking. Though when I went to Nippon recently I did manage to fit a suit in my one purse, by wearing the jacket on the plane and packing the trousers.

Anyway, this is a moving-picture show of my photo gear (excluding computers, chargers and cables):

The equipment here is:

A Lumix GX8, my main camera, at the top. I love this – it's at the superlative end of the Lumix micro 4 thirds camera range, and I've had a neat experience with it. It is so much lighter and smaller than the Nikon D7000 I used previously, and has some great features. I will review it in more detail one of these days.

A Lumix 14-140mm f/three.5-five.half dozen lens (28-280mm equivalent) is on the GX8 camera. This is the lens I mainly use for landscape and travel photography, it is very versatile.

An Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 Pro lens with a i.4x teleconverter (112-420mm equivalent in total) is at the acme correct. This is my large lens for wildlife photography, and it's a fantastic lens, the sharpest I accept ever endemic.

Below this is a Lumix GX7, the predecessor to the GX8, which I even so have for backup – it works with all the same lenses, though unfortunately not with the aforementioned batteries. In the end I decided not to take this to New Zealand, this is the only thing in the film that got cut.I have taken the GX8 on quite a few trips now, including two to Iceland and one to Japan, and it hasn't permit me downwards nevertheless! On this camera is a Lumix 20mm f/ane.7 lens, which I don't use that often simply information technology's a very fast and precipitous lens.

To the left of that is my Lumix LX7 (I'thousand a Lumix guy!), which is an all in one pocketable camera that is great in low light – its lens is f/1.4 at the widest zoom. This is the only photographic camera that was too on my gear listing two years ago. It has lasted really well, but Lumix has some newer cameras in a like vein that I would await at if I was buying something like this today.

To the left of that is a headlamp for helping out with night photography, and then a Lumix 14mm f/2.5 lens (28mm equivalent), which is the primary lens I use for photographing the night sky. Patently this has now been discontinued by Lumix. It's an amazingly small and light lens – it weighs only under 2oz, or around 50g.

At the top left is a car cam that I simply bought, the iTrue X3 dash cam. The idea of this is to record our road trips. It's similar to a GoPro in some means, only less expensive and the large plus is that it will run from an external power supply plugged into the car cigarette lighter, and as well it automatically starts and stops when you turn the car ignition on and off. Information technology will tape video in a loop, overwriting the oldest files as the bill of fare fills up. Nosotros did a quick test on our recent trip to Telluride, and found that we will demand 2 32GB micro SD cards to record a whole 24-hour interval of driving – and so we will generate a lot of data for our whole 12 day road trip!

Because of this I am also taking a G-Technology G-Drive 1TB mobile disk drive, which will plug into my MacBook Air via USB. I just got this, but have had skillful experience with similar G-Engineering science products in the past.

There is a new GoPro Hero4 Session in the middle virtually the left, which I only bought and I was very impressed with my initial tests while skiing. Information technology is relatively inexpensive ($199) and has no screen and simple controls, but you can remotely control it and see what the photographic camera sees using your smart phone with a WiFi connexion. It is also waterproof without requiring a case. I am taking two connectors for it to New Zealand, one to mountain it on a tripod (or selfie stick!), and a larger suction mount that I tin use to mountain it on a auto, gunkhole or helicopter!!

At the bottom right are two neutral density filters, an ND8 and an ND400, which I use for taking long exposures, especially of waterfalls or other water features, plus some spare batteries (three in full for the GX8, two for the LX7).

And finally three tripods, the principal 1 is a MeFoto Backpacker Travel Tripod, made from titanium, which weighs just 2.6 pounds and folds up to be just 12.8″ long. I accept been very pleased with this, it works very well for such a small and lite tripod. I take 2 other mini tripods which I will mainly use with the LX7 or the GoPro.

And last but not least, not pictured is my iPhone 6S, which I used to take these pictures. And then I will take five cameras in full including the iPhone.

The picture below shows the GX8 in a small packing cube with the three smaller lens – the 14-140mm, 14mm and 20mm. All this together weighs just 2.five pounds!

This is incredibly lightweight and compact compared to a traditional DSLR alternative, which is a great attraction of the micro four thirds system. My big lens with the teleconverter weighs ii.25 pounds, and the largest tripod weighs 2.6 pounds equally mentioned previously.

My whole carry on pocketbook including all the camera gear, my xi″ MacBook Air and iPad mini, plus all necessary chargers and cables etc, and my clothing, weighs in at 30 pounds. Here it is on my dorsum:

One final gear note – I decided non to accept my Apple Picket on this trip. I've been underwhelmed with it in general, and really don't desire to take to recharge information technology every nighttime when I have lots of other gear that likewise needs charging, with college priority!

Instead I decided to take i of my classic watches, and went for this one with four fourth dimension zones, since I always get confused with Australian and New Zealand times!  Clockwise from height left, the time in Denver, Auckland, Sydney and London.

All packed now and ready to head out tomorrow – stay tuned for lots of pictures!

Source: https://smallworldlivelarge.com/2016/03/04/my-current-camera-gear-for-new-zealand-trip/

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