{"id":631,"date":"2007-02-20T11:21:28","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T10:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/20\/photo-safari-contents-of-my-camera-bag\/"},"modified":"2007-02-23T18:28:24","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T17:28:24","slug":"photo-safari-contents-of-my-camera-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/20\/photo-safari-contents-of-my-camera-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo safari: Contents of my camera bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s decided, I go a leopard safari trip in South Africa in April. the big question is -as always- what should I put in the camera bag, what should I bring. But also, what should I leave in Europe? We are not donkeys, but when you want to take the picture of your dreams it&#8217;s always bad to refrain yourself because you don&#8217;t have the needed hardware. I admit it may be a matter of appreciation, though. I remember this phtoographer going last year in Kenya. We would make fun of his carrying 5.5kg of his Canon 600mm\/4. But he could easily remind us that it would be handy if a cheetah started to hunt too far from our 400mm lenses.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see what will probably be in my Lowepro Mini Trekker AW camera bag:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Camera: Always faithful Konica-Minolta Dynax 7D. I will not even try to bring a spare analog camera, I wouldn&#8217;t use it.<\/li>\n<li>Standard lens: Minolta 300mm\/4, great optics.<\/li>\n<li>Secondary lens: Either the old Sigma 400mm\/5.6 to avoid being too short with the 300mm, or (even better) the Minolta 200mm\/2.8 with a 2x Minolta converter (provided that I can buy a second-hand one before take off &#8211; a converter).<\/li>\n<li>Misc lens: Minolta zoom xi 28-105mm\/3.5-4.5; Not a wonderful glass, but it&#8217;s small and may come handy.<\/li>\n<li>Additional macro front lens in case I&#8217;d look down and check flora and insects<\/li>\n<li>Two Compact Flash Transcend 1GB cards and a CompactDrive PD70X portable disk drive in order to always have enough storage (in Kenya, in 7 days, I shot 950 photos)<\/li>\n<li>A Minolta 5600HS flash because it may be possible to do night safari and I dream of a drinking leopard<\/li>\n<li>Binoculars: Not really critical, but very useful, lovely 10&#215;50 bought in a sale at Liedl a year ago<\/li>\n<li>Cleaning: standard rag wool, air gun, etc. but nothing hi-tech<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am still hesitating about brining a monopod if we are to stay all day long in a SUV. A good <em>bean bag<\/em> or a rolled-up scarf may be better.<\/p>\n<p>About energy management, it&#8217;s clear cut. In South Africa we will be based in hotel lodges. Everything will be simplified by the availability of mains power. But I&#8217;ll bring the 12V chargers for the Dynax 7D battery and the CompactDrive PD70X batteries.I never use a 12V\/230V converters: Too heavy and with a low efficiency (it&#8217;s heating up quickly), I am equipped for 12V autonomy plugged in cigar lighters in cars. I&#8217;ll take two batteries for the camera (I&#8217;llswap and charge them at any time), three or four sets of 1.5V AA NiH batteries.<\/p>\n<p>All this will come with some paper notepad to replace the Sony Cli\u00c3\u00a9 PDA that I always have with me but will be too cumbersome to recharge.<\/p>\n<p>Not forgetting long sleeves shirts and bush hat as protection against the African sun.<\/p>\n<p>Do you see something that I&#8217;m missing or something I should leave behind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s decided, I go a leopard safari trip in South Africa in April. the big question is -as always- what should I put in the camera bag, what should I bring. But also, what should I leave in Europe? We are not donkeys, but when you want to take the picture of your dreams it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-photo-safari","category-wildlife-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}