Being a family of four and attempting to travel light on our 7 week journey in Central America I have concluded that I will need to limit the amount of photography gear I travel with. I am considering dropping my 70-200mm lens and doing away with my flash as the first step to weight loss. My basic gear will consist of my Canon 7D, Tokina 11-16mm, Canon 24-70mm, Manfrotto carbon fiber tripod, intervalometer and filters etc. My backup camera will be the Canon S100 and Tegan's Panasonic DMC-TS4.
Being a family of four and attempting to travel light on our 7 week journey in Central America I have concluded that I will need to limit the amount of photography gear I travel with. I am considering dropping my 70-200mm lens and doing away with my flash as the first step to weight loss. My basic gear will consist of my Canon 7D, Tokina 11-16mm, Canon 24-70mm, Manfrotto carbon fiber tripod, intervalometer and filters etc. My backup camera will be the Canon S100 and Tegan's Panasonic DMC-TS4.
Since we are hauling our iPad and not a laptop around on this trip, I have thought of a feasible way to do backup while jumping from location to location in C.A. The solution that came to mind is to carry my high speed card reader and my 1 TB portable hard drive then use this combo to transfer images from one source to the other. All I need to do is have access to a computer at a hotel or Internet cafe with a couple of free USB ports. I have many CF cards for the SLR so I should have little problem keeping duplicate photos on those as well. I am only lacking extra cards for my point and shoot. So either I chance not having a backup or I pickup a couple of 32 gig cards prior to leaving or while there.
The second issue was how to get the photos onto the iPad so that I may edit and place photos into our blog postings. Our iPad is protected by the Otterbox Defender case and I highly recommend this. I thought of finding a solution to plug in the hard drive to the iPad, but that proved to be a deadend. I ended up ordering a card reader that plugs into the 30 pin docking port on the iPad and allows me to read the photos from my CF and SD cards alike. The only drawback of the Otterbox case is that it is fixed onto the iPad and the ports are deeply set into the case, requiring an extension to use the card reader. So off to eBay and I snagged one for under $5 shipped to my door from China. Hopefully the cable lasts the length of the trip!
Now I am feeling pretty confident about my ability to update my blog entirely from the iPad.
