This is a follow up to the first "Gear" column that we posted a few months ago.
We've finally figured out our gear options, and we can safely say that we are going to be able to get away with traveling with one carry-on bag each, plus a small backpack and camera bag. All in all, the total weight isn't all that bad... we've yet to measure that, but perhaps that'll come up in a subsequent column.
We've managed to keep our electronic gear down to a reasonable level too... (if you think this is a lot, then you should have seen our initial list!) Looking at the picture on the right going clockwise, we have:
1) SONY Vaio laptop with Archos CDRW external drive - this will be used to maintain this website, store and edit photos, and burn photos to CD for backup and storage.
2) 75-300mm Canon lens - for getting really close up; this will probably be on all the time on safari in Kenya/Tanzania
3) Teleadapt DC to AC power converter - this will allow use of any regular three prong device while in a car/truck or on the airplane (only in business class). Crucial for charging batteries on safari and for those long-haul flights.
4) Canon 10D digital SLR camera with Canon 28-125mm IS zoom lens- pretty big, pretty heavy, but hopefully will be able to take good shots with this... we've been really happy with it so far, you be the judge once the pictures start getting posted!
5) Power adaptor - for use in six different continents (thanks Scott & Rochelle!)
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6) Four Viking 256MB and one 32MB compact flash cards, which should hopefully suffice until we have time to offload our pictures onto the laptop
7) Lexar USB Jump Drive flash memory card - for transferring files to/from our laptop to internet cafe computers for uploading, if we can't hook our laptop to their network (thanks Tony!)
8) Canon S400 Digital Elph camera - Jen's camera that is small enough to tote around town in a pocket to avoid looking too much like a tourist.
There are a few other small items not in the above picture like chargers (for 10D, S400, and laptop), blank CD's, and network and phone cables.
With luck, we won't discover that this is too much electronic gear and end up abandoning some of it. Check back in a bit to see if we really needed this gear or not!
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