> On 2 Sep 2014, at 01:56, "Mark C" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Next week my wife and are taking a vacation to the Washington DC area. [...] > > OK - so I am trying to travel light. The biggest impediment to that is > bringing backup bodies and lenses. When you travel - do you carry backup gear > or just trust to fate that everything will work? > > [...] > > This is not a trip of a lifetime but I'll be frustrated if something fails > along the way. I guess the Q kit is a backup for the overall kit but as much > as I like the Q kit it does have limits (slow AF, no eye level finder, poor > high ISO performance, limits on shallow DOF...) > > What do you do when you travel? > > [...]
If it's specifically a photo trip, or the trip of a lifetime, I take a spare body and enough overlap with lenses to get by if one goes wrong. In Fez for example I had 2 Olympus bodies and 3 lenses which covered pretty much everything. Other types of trip, it depends on my capacity. For the cycling trip to France this year I just took a Fuji X20. If it had failed, well tough, but France isn't going anywhere so I can go back easily enough. For your trip I'd say the Q is a perfectly good plan B. B -- 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.
