> > What have I forgotten or overlooked? Credit card and spare suitcase for the lenses you'll buy in Hong Kong?
Sounds like a great opportunity! Enjoy. stan On Nov 12, 2010, at 1:44 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > I should be good for batteries. I have 4 D-LI50s & 1 NP400. I know my > chargers will work with the voltages I'll encounter on the trip, and I > already have the necessary UK plug adapters for Hong Kong. > > I'm thinking of "sharing" from the point of "What do I contribute to the > common pool?" > > Everyone else will be using Canon or Nikon. I was wondering if any of the > canikon cameras used batteries that can be charged with my 12VDC charger. > > It's 10 days, 10 students & 1 instructor. Enter through Hong Kong, north by > rail to Beijing where we catch our flight home after visiting The Great Wall. > We'll have two tripods, one of them my old Gitzo with Manfrotto 488RC2 ball > head. I'll have spare mounting plates. > > I'm planning to carry the K20D with the K10D for backup. Sigma 30f1.4, Sigma > 10-20f4-5.6, Tokina ATX-Pro 28-70f2.8 & Sigma 1.4x tele-converter for lenses. > I considered taking my Tokina ATX=Pro 80-200f2.8, but I don't forsee the need > for a telephoto on this trip. > > AF-540FGZ with Vivitar 285HV backup for flash. Flash Adapter FG, Hotshoe > Adapter FG, the coil cord & the long cord. CyberSync with a hotshoe adapter > that has 1/4-20 mounting thread & foot to fit a cold shoe. > > I'm also taking my K1000 with SMCP-A 35f2 & my last roll of Kodachrome 25 > [plus a few more rolls of E6 film]. We're going to the Great Wall & I plan to > shoot that last roll of Kodachrome there. > > Make that last two rolls ... I just found a Kodachrome 64 hiding in the back > of the fridge. We'll be "back in the USSR" by 22 Dec, so I should have time > to get them off to Duane's before the deadline. > > Another question: Anyone know how picky TSA is over bulk-load 35mm film > cartridges? I've got a bunch of Velvia 50, but none of it is in pre-loaded > cartridges. If they're going to be an ass about it I'll leave the Velvia at > home & take Provia 100F. > > About the only other thing I haven't figured out yet is whether to carry my > laptop & an external drive, get a netbook & external drive or just carry an > external drive and borrow computer time from classmates for downloading my > cards. > > I don't know if there will be any other windoze computers along on the trip. > I could format my external drive for Mac HFS or HFS+ and install MacDrive on > my windoze box when I get home. > > I have 4 8GB SDHC & 10 4GB SDHC, all speed class 4. > > All the camera gear fits into a LowePro Mini-Trekker. I have a Manfrotto > MBAG80P for the tripod which I can also stuff with some spare clothing & a > small shoulder bag that should be enough for the rest of my clothing. > > I don't think I will have to check anything except possibly the tripod bag > and I'll see if I can gate-check that. > > All my clothing is designed for hand-washing during travel. I'm only carrying > my prescription medicines, a spare pair of glasses, a bar of Ivory soap, > toothbrush and unopened travel size toothpaste & mouthwash. I'll shave before > I leave home & if I can't make it 10 days without shaving again, I'll buy a > disposable BIC razor once I get there. > > I have my passport and visa. > > This is the first time I will fly commercial since 9/11. All the other times > the military took care of things and told me what to bring, where to bring it > and when to be there. > > The flight itself should be interesting. Well, maybe not the flight, but > looking at the route, I think it goes directly north over Hudson Bay, the > North Pole & south over Siberia into China. > > What have I forgotten or overlooked? > > > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi > >> I used NP400s interchangeably with the Pentax K10D battery too. No >> problems, although the Pentax battery has a little more capacity. The >> Canon batteries I've seen, while similar in form factor, are not >> compatible with the NP400 terminal layout. BTW, no name D-LI50 >> batteries for Pentax K10D, K20D are available from BestBatt.com for >> $...@. You can get a compact, one-battery travel charger for them from >> the same source for $18. >> >> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:49 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> K10 & K20 both use the D-LI-50 battery, which appears to be >>>> essentially a re-badged Konica-Minolta NP400 (if using the NP400 >>>> in my K10 hasn't killed it by now, it never will ...). >>>> >>>> I'm going on a school trip to China and we're trying to figure >>>> out what we can share. Since I'm the only Pentax shooter in the >>>> group, the answer is not much ... >>>> >>>> But, I was wondering about batteries. I have dual >>>> 120-240VAC/12VDC charger for NP400s that I keep in my car. >>>> >>>> My question is do any of the Canikon cameras also use a re-badged >>>> NP-400? >>>> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
