My family and I are off to an Inside Passage cruise soon. Side trips include Mendenhall Glacier, Skagway/Lake Bennett, Glacier National Park, and Butchart Gardens. I'm hoping to get wildlife and landscape photos.
Here are some equipment I'm planning to bring along with my 60D
Anyone with Alaska experience who can tell me what I'm missing and should rent before I go? I understand renting equipment at Alaska is probably not an option.
You are right, nowhere to rent up here so bring it with you. Everything covered on the wide angle and mid range zoom plus the rain gear. Might want something longer and with stabilization since you are on a boat, a longer range telephoto since the 70-200 with the 1.4X may not be long enough IMO. A longer prime, or a 100-400mm or one of the Sigma's like the 50-500mm would be a couple of options. Have never done the inside passage, but from what I have heard you are never real close to the wildlife on the boat. Hope you enjoy your trip
I'll echo the advice about something a little longer than the 70-200 + 1.4 -- I took those on my Alaskan trips, but the 400/5.6 was great to have. It's light and quick. You won't be able to use a tripod on the boat and bus trips.
By the way, I made quite a few panoramas hand held using the 70-200... just remember to set manual exposure, overlap at least 25% (or more) and use the horizon as a reference point as you rotate. Unfortunately, SmugMug doesn't support interactive panoramas made with VR software.
peterindb wrote:
My family and I are off to an Inside Passage cruise soon. Side trips include Mendenhall Glacier, Skagway/Lake Bennett, Glacier National Park, and Butchart Gardens. I'm hoping to get wildlife and landscape photos.
Here are some equipment I'm planning to bring along with my 60D
Anyone with Alaska experience who can tell me what I'm missing and should rent before I go? I understand renting equipment at Alaska is probably not an option.
Thanks in advance. I just got back from an Alaska cruise, Princess Sapphire. Same places you're headed to. Great landscape photos. You can rent equipment on the boat ( I didn't haha ) they don't have a large collection though. I spent 3 weeks in interior Alaska, Denali, Fairbanks, Palmer, Anchorage, Homer and Seward. Then a week on the boat. Be prepared for fast action photos in the Glacier National park, the glaciers are falling at this time. Good luck man and PM me if you want to know more.
You aren't missing anything on your list except a 28-135mm ( great landscape lens ) but other than that, thumbs up. Get an orange filter, you're gonna see a lot of sunsets.
