1. I usually take a laptop, so that I can do some preliminary edits in the evening.
2. Nothing worth photographing in the UK. I took about 2400 exposures there in 1995, 6000 exposures in 6 months in 2009, and a few thousand in subsequent trips. Between me, Bob, Cotty, Mike, Mark!, and Chris, all the good shots have been used up. You might as well just stay home and send me your plane tickets. Rick On Sep 2, 2014, at 8:09 PM, Steve Sharpe wrote: > My wife and I are heading for the UK for two weeks starting October > 20th. We will have a car for part of the time. My wife understands that > photography is a major goal and is okay with that...as long as she can > go sailing. > > The kit I am pretty sure I will take: > > K-3 with battery pack > Sigma 10-20/4-5.6 > DA 16-45/4 > DA-WR 55-300 > FA 35/2 > FA 50/2.8 macro > *istD for backup and IR > Lowepro Computrekker AW for the pack > Lowepro Nova 3 for walkabouts > Manfrotto lightweight tripod > Lots of filters, batteries and cards. > > I'm also wondering about taking: > DA* 16-50/2.8 > Tamron 500/8 mirror > > What do you think? > > Two more questions: > > 1. I am debating whether I want to take a laptop computer, just to back > up my cards onto. I had a card go bad on me two weeks ago and now I'm > paranoid. > > 2. Apart from Cotty, is there anything else in the UK worth > photographing? > > > >>> Quoting Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com>: >>> >>>> I'm just winding down my UK trip hiking through Yorkshire. I took >>>> my light travel kit: K5, DA 12-24, DA* 16-50 and DA-L 55-300, plus >>>> a Manfrotto Mountaineer carbon fibre tripod and a Sigma +1.6 >>>> diopter achromatic close-up attachment for "macro" work. No backup >>>> body. All this kit has proven so dead reliable through years of >>>> atrocious outdoor conditions that I felt confident without bringing >>>> more (actually, the DA-L 55-300 is relatively new but I thought I'd >>>> risk it). >>>> >>>> Last year in Italy I brought a similar kit but with a backup body. > --- > > Steven Sharpe - The Office Gallery > > d...@eastlink.ca > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
