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<p>Go Camping. Preferably on an island. Try and leave behind the urban infrastructure and see something wild(ish). Like Tashiro or one of the ones between Shikoku and the mainland.<br /><br />Miajima has never disappointed despite having always failed to time my visit with high tide. Really nice in the evening.</p>

<p>I'd go to Yakushima island and look for Monkeys.</p>

Not really. You can't use a tripod and there is nowhere convenient to put a camera down. You might be able to do something sneaky with a monopod and the railings, especially if it is dark, but don't count on it being easy.

Buget airlines have their own carry on rules, which they probably enforce more stringently, since enforcement == money. I believe easyjet allows one bag of standard dimensions and any (reasonable) weight, but you should definitey check on their site.

You might find something a bit wider to be useful.

 

Tripod is handy as some temples are surrounded by trees and it can be quite dark in the shade. Tripods can be invaluable as it starts to get dark in the evening. But make sure it is a light one.

 

Try sitting down and waiting for the kids to stop asking you to buy their stuff.

 

Watch out fo the bunch of monkeys between Ankor Watt and Bayon.

 

Consider renting a bike.

 

Take lots of 1usd bills, as everything costs a dollar (more or less)

 

You need three days, minimum.

Definitely look at the body for better AF in low light. Certainly from 1DMk2 to Mk3 it has improved quite a bit.

It is possible to go from Bangkok by road. You take a bus (or train) from bangkok to the border, walk across the border where you can get a cambodia visa but risk overpaying. I suggest doing the online prepayment method. The other side of the border is a bumpy road to Siem Reap. You can do the whole journey in a day.

There is a big fat Yodobashi just outside Osaka station (not Shin Osaka)

The catacombes. At night a lot of stuff along the river is lit up quite nicely. You can climb Notre Dame tower, and I think one of the department stores on bvd haussman (printemps?) lets you out onto the roof for a sunset shot of eiffel tower.

You'd probably be better off with the 1.4. The aperture difference is minimal. The sealing is not so useful in a social context. The images from the 1.2 had bad CA when focused reasonably close (I tried at 2m) which the 1.4 did not. The AF isn't really faster, but I felt it was more responsive.

IMO, you definitely want to consider Frank Uhlig's suggestion, you want to avoid solving one problem, just to create a new one. In particular, if you want a shoulder bag (like me), you *have* to minimize the stuff you put in it. I get the impression you're thinking of a backpack style load in a shoulder bag format, and that will not work for long distances.

 

However, If you're talking small body, small primes, and a gitzo CF tripod, then I think getting a shoulder bag that your stuff fits in, then sewing on straps to hold your tripod, is a sound strategy.

 

For my long trip of SE Asia, I went with a body+lens in latex case + telezoom in case, both on straps over my shoulder - minimum weight from day to day + they could go in my 35 Litre backpack when travelling from place to place, or as carryon on flights. Strangely I don't remember doing a lot of sweating.

Are they *really* Li-ion batteries? Or has some underpaid marketing person just assumed that all DSLR batteries are L-ion? If they are, then you shouldn't charge them in the 1Ds charger which is designed for Ni-MH cells.

www.camerapricebuster.co.uk

Here in the UK, we can just phone someone up and it is delivered the next day.

In a similar position, I went with the 1540T and a manfrotto 488 ball head I already had. I chose against the 1550T because the 5th section is *really* thin, and the ball head is very small (and the whole thing is more expensive).

As a wacky alternative, one could also buy a second flash memory card for the camera and swap them over.

You need 2-3 extra batteries, and a plan of what to do with the photos you take after they leave the camera. It depends on what you're doing, but consider - buy lots of flash memory. Copy to DVD in internet cafe. Backup to PSD. Backup to portable DVD recorder. Take laptop & edit / DVD-R. Take your pick...I'd also suggest one of the latex camera cases as being the smallest camera covering you can get. When you start taking about underwater covers, you're probably not really in the "light as possible" and "essential" category any more.

doorstop?

I did something similar recently with 2x 250GB PSDs, 100GB of flash which was good for about 2 months and 12-15k images. Longer than that, then I'd suggest switching the disks in the PSDs. You can do a copy in an internet cafe, but it would take a long time to copy 250GB.

I'd go to india. You might like to go from Luxor to Istanbul.

I'd suggest not carrying a notebook. Only take one tripod. Do you *need* 2 flashes?

 

Consider reducing the number of lenses so you can put them all in your bag and carry them around. Or you need somewhere secure to leave them. I'd have thought 3 would be enough. 6 is silly. probably.

 

Forget about being inconspicuous unless you're wearing local clothes, and look local.

I'd suggest avoiding printers generally if you can. And especially avoid the inkjet variety. Paying a proper print processor for a proper print makes for a much less cluttered life, and the price is probably similar.

 

I like the small dye sub Selphy range from canon for use as a portable printer. It can produce a 6x4 print in a minute or so, powered by an optional Li-ion battery.

Golden pavilion, silver pavilion, kiomizu temple (in that order) + maybe wander around gion area. You can take public buses from outside the station. Also get the english kyoto bus map which is very handy.

 

Or just outside Kyoto station, you can choose a tour bus which takes you around a few different places.

Aren't Kenko and Hoya the same company? They might even be the same glass

I've seen it in my 1ds2 a long time ago. I believe there was a firmware update which was supposed to deal with it, so you might want to check that.