Comments on: Travelling Overseas with Photographic Equipment

By: Richard Day

Richard Day — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:29:50 +0000

I once went to the Bahamas, Long Island, with three Hasselblad bodies, five lenses and the various accessories. What a joke. I did have it insured and it made it safely, but there was no way that I would ever use all this equipment.

I was totally paranoid about it being damaged on the plane. I was afraid to leave it in the cottage – no locks. I couldn’t enjoy my vacation.

Take the minimum and you will be happy.

By the way, I did take a Nikon with an 80-210 zoom on a plane trip years ago. It sat on the bottom of an thinly-padded case. The vibrations of the airplane caused the body to have necessary repairs. Many of the screws loosened up.

By: V.G.

V.G. — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:24:33 +0000

Good Morning Roy.
Thanks for the article and always your good advise. On my last journey abroad, I did have a small but sturdy tripod (it did fit in my backpack) and I brought about 6 extra memory card just to be on the safe side. Everything workout great.
Thanks, keep up the good work. Really appreciate it.

By: DaCosta

DaCosta — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:57:57 +0000

Good Evening Roy!

As always, a very helpful article. Acutally I believe in travelling light: an advanced point & shoot running on AA batteries with a mini tripod (or “Gorillapod”) and extra memory (or film) is my best choice. I believe travelling light makes for more fun and less headache.

Thanks and all the best!

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:28:12 +0000

Thanks Suzanne. I just checked it and it seems OK. Might have been your connection at the time…I can only guess.
Roy

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:59:06 +0000

Hi, Don’t know if you know, but the video skips every 1-2 sec and stops. What I hear was good information, but I gave up before 2 minutes was up.

By: Blujean

Blujean — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:24:38 +0000

As being someone who has not traveled out of the country I would probably forget to bring enough memory and I didn’t realize that you might have to check-in your equipment.
I would have been so unprepared without your information.

By: Elvin

Elvin — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:29:18 +0000

Well, take the choice for your body too: if you take a body which (also ) uses normal penlight / AA – batteries, you can safe a charger for your specialized accu’s and a number of accu’s. If you need to charge, make sure the charger is working also abroad and can be plugged in. Here in Europe we have 220-240 Volts and a different format of plug – for US-photographs this can be a real pain if you only can use special accu’s or batteries. For this reason I choose the Pentax K100D with a large-range lense: 18-200mm, an extra flash, filters and very little tripod.
Not enough for everybody but it suits a lot of needs.
Elvin

By: bobbyd

bobbyd — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:59:04 +0000

Great article,one to make you think