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<p>Hot dead pixels !? That sounds serious and kind of what it looks like. Is there a solution?</p>

<p>I have a Nikon D610 and using it with a Nikon 17-35mm f2.8 and a Breakthrough 10 stop ND filter and shooting in RAW. ISO is 100. I have been experimenting with this new filter. I don't know where this starts, but I know it is there at 20 minute exposures. If I zoom into 100% and definitely at 200% it looks like there are lots of pin holes in the image. These manifest themselves into bright specks. I am shooting with long exposure setting off, because the camera will work for more than 10 minutes cleaning up the image. That's not acceptable. Anyone know what's going on?</p> <p>Thanks</p>

<p>My spouse is almost 5 years older than me, so never had to wait for her to retire. However, we have both been good with traveling alone as well as with each other. Both are great and very different experiences. Anyway this is something we need to do. I'm 68 and she is 72. We have never really traveled outside the US with finding a new place to live in the back of our minds. Done it in the US, but never in different country.This could be our last hurrah traveling on the edge...together anyway. We may need a yacht to live on soon instead of hostels, couch surfing and home stays. Lovely photograph. I like that its so close to Africa.</p>

<p>Well Gup, that is an interesting question. We tend to be "by the seat of our pants" travelers. There are definitely some places we plan on going, but where we go first depends on when we actually get out act together. We are hoping to leave late fall of this year (after a few week spiritual retreat in the Peruvian Amazon), but no later than late winter next year. It is challenging to disentangle ourselves from our home, get everything in storage so we can rent the house, store cars at friends houses, mail, etc. etc. We know we wish to spend more time in Central America. We both wish to see Cuba and likely Patagonia. We both wish to return to India. We have a young lady in Uganda that my spouse met while there in 2007 and has helped her through secondary school and college so we would like to be in Uganda for her graduation in 2017. I have lots of relatives in Italy. We want to see eastern Europe. There I parts of Mongolia I still wish to see as well as parts of Russia. All I can really say is our travel is "fluid" and with a year we could end up almost anywhere, but the above is a starter and that's all we need to get going.</p>

<p>Thanks Leszek. My wife and I will be traveling with a Nikon D610,D7100, Canon G12 (I love this little camera), and at least one GoPro. Oh yes two iPhones :-). We both have Pacsafe camera straps and backpacks. We also lock our bags closed in our rooms as well as lock the bags to something immoveable. I am still going to use the cloud when possible, but in conjunction with the other measures I mentioned above in the post just before yours. I also take one more step to avoid theft. I put off market lens caps on my lenses so the large white word Nikon does not show and I put small pieces of black duct tape on all the camera brand and model names wherever they appear on the cameras. That way the cameras are less noticeable and unless the potential thief is a photographer, he/she won't know its a Nikon, which likely is known worldwide as an expensive camera. We also have camera insurance, so replacing one out of the country is perhaps a pain, but not impossible. Great discussion !</p>

<p>Thank you all again. I am pretty sure I have a plan based on all of your comments and my personal needs and levels of comfort. I have a rather large following of individuals wanting to read about my adventures out of the country "while I'm, traveling". I never traveled with a laptop. I would write in my journal every night and when I found an internet café I would write home. On recent trips to Mongolia, Colombia and the Amazon I found it more difficult to find an internet café. But finding WiFi here and there even in a place as remote as Sagsai Mongolia is now common. I decided the next trip I needed to have a tablet with a decent keyboard or a small laptop. I have had a tablet for a couple of years (never traveled with it, just too much stuff in my back pack, AND front pack) and find it unsatisfactory for my needs anywhere. Apps are annoying as well and belong on the phone. So I will be purcasing a very small Windows based laptop primarily for writing and e-mailing. So, I will have a laptop with me, but the size of the hardrive will be small. I will stick with 16GB SD cards, because as I said earlier, I can't deal with the loss of more than 300 images if my camera is lost or stolen. The camera is the most likely item I will be traveling with that will be stolen followed by the laptop. I should point out that both my wife and I are independent travelers. We go it alone and like to blend with, experience and photograph cultures different from our own. This means we don't have some of the protection that comes with traveling with experienced guides and leaves us more vulnerable to lots more "bad things" to happen to us including theft. But this is what we like to do. I don't view backing up my images to my laptop or keeping large numbers of images on SD cards in my camera as a safe way to back up. I will carry two SSHD's, one for my wife carried in her bag (not her day bag) and one for me. We will use the laptop to upload images to these as the opportunity arrives. I may purchase several hi capacity SD cards and store the same images 0n them that are on the SSHD drives and carry these in my money belt. Finally I will try to upload to iCloud when the opportunity arises so images are not with me and can't be stolen. Yes I know that could take hours, but traveling for a year we have to reason to rush from one place to another. We may even rent an apartment or house here and there as we are also scouting for a new place to live out our "elder years" as far away from the current worldwide" insanity of humanity"' as possible.</p>

<p>Gup. Thanks. Why was the tablet a mistake ? Just curious. Just that it has little storage space or something else ? Thanks</p>