Robert / Seattle
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EDIT NOTE: I've moved this post to a more appropriate forum (Cameras and Photography). Please respond there, not here. Thanks, Robert / Seattle
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A general question to all of you fellow naturalist world travellers:
I'll be spending a few weeks in Botswana and Zambia next year on a walking safari and want to take enough equipment to observe and record the birds and widlife, but not so much to burden the experience and end up not seeing or enjoying anything. I'm thinking of a Leica Ultravid 10x32 (my light-weight travel preference), teamed with a 2-lens digital SLR kit (Leica Digilux 3 w/2 mega zooms - together encompassing 28-500mm (in 35mm equivalence)), and a Leica VLux with fixed 12x optical zoom (35-420mm) "point and shoot". Maybe a Gitzo monopod as well. The critical criteria is that all my gear fit into an airline carry-on (less the checked monopod), and be both professionally useful yet comfortably portable for a given day's trek. The above "kit", with pack and accessories, sundries and etc., might weigh in at ca. 20 lbs.
What would you bring? What did you bring and regret? What did you leave behind and regret?
Robert / Seattle
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A general question to all of you fellow naturalist world travellers:
I'll be spending a few weeks in Botswana and Zambia next year on a walking safari and want to take enough equipment to observe and record the birds and widlife, but not so much to burden the experience and end up not seeing or enjoying anything. I'm thinking of a Leica Ultravid 10x32 (my light-weight travel preference), teamed with a 2-lens digital SLR kit (Leica Digilux 3 w/2 mega zooms - together encompassing 28-500mm (in 35mm equivalence)), and a Leica VLux with fixed 12x optical zoom (35-420mm) "point and shoot". Maybe a Gitzo monopod as well. The critical criteria is that all my gear fit into an airline carry-on (less the checked monopod), and be both professionally useful yet comfortably portable for a given day's trek. The above "kit", with pack and accessories, sundries and etc., might weigh in at ca. 20 lbs.
What would you bring? What did you bring and regret? What did you leave behind and regret?
Robert / Seattle
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