Azza wrote:I never sorted out a system for lens changes though...
Nuts wrote:I have a D90 (and some bigger lenses), the best solution I found, left it behind!!
Nuts wrote:...For general travel (or perhaps anything), lets be honest.. big price (cumbersome, fragile, heavy, expensive) to pay for unnecessary(?) image quality (and not medium format.. is it ) High end compact will have 'enough'(?) IQ and bits to twiddle.. so much better suited to overnight 'Bush'walking....
JonnyBoy wrote:The guy tried hard but missed virtually every shot - by the time he knelt down, selected his lens and set up his camera the shot was long gone
Ent wrote:I agree with Nuts, the best camera is not a SLR for walking
Ent wrote:As for the quality issue, well I chuckle. Many of us spend a fortune on the the latest and greatest and a few years later a much humbler camera kicks its but...Great photographs have a lot more to do with effort by the photographer than the gear...
Ent wrote:And lets be serious, a top class photographer would be lugging a massively heavy tripod
Ent wrote:A tripod carrying walker moves slower than a three toe sloth...
Nuts wrote:Like to see a crop of my dogs whiskers (taken with a$400$200 camera)
Nuts wrote:What i'm most impressed with these days are the advances made in getting such quality from tiny sensors
Nuts wrote:over winter gobbling lollies and researching light weight gear
whynotwalk wrote:The only downside is the pull on the neck if I use a long (read heavy) lens and carry it all day.
photohiker wrote:whynotwalk wrote:The only downside is the pull on the neck if I use a long (read heavy) lens and carry it all day.
What I've done with my admittedly smaller camera is to run the strap through the pack frame behind my neck, taking the weight off my neck altogether. This makes removing the pack a little more complicated, but I have quick release buckles on the camera to make that less of a chore.
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