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bs kite wrote:
I need to decide my strategy for air travel.
I need advice please. What do you have and use?
thank you
Robert
If you want to carry the camera gear onboard, as I do domestic, check out the Think Tank Photo Airport Accelerator or the roller version.
The most I carried in mine (domestic) 2 x D810, 1 D500, 200-500, 28 1.8, 50 1.4, 85 1.8 and Surface Pro 3 plus all the accessories for everything, including a 1TB drive and two cell phones.
I used two cables designed to secure luggage to secure it in the hotel when I didn't carry the bag. Not ideal at all.
The only reason I carried all that crap was to shoot an event for work where the images had to be uploaded and released (ideally) within 15-30 minutes to beat a deadline for the east coast (and to give them to the local paper for the next day).
Normally, I carry a Domke F2 with two bodies and 3-4 lenses, plus a small "map case" style bag for my Surface. Those two bags stay on me the whole trip. Suitcase gets checked.
The trick is to carry minimal gear for your own subjective comfortt level. I always take two bodies. I also have a Hadley Large for more formal travel (two bodies, lenses and Surface fit in there.)
I have had no trouble counting a small laptop bag as the "personal item". XPS 13 or Surface Pro. They can go in really small cases. :-)
Family travel, no laptop. I uase a tablet slid in the pocket of an F2 or the Chronicle Domke J bag.
Overseas? Whole new ballgame due to carry on weight restrictions on commercial airlines. I know pretty much all of Asia is 22kg/10lbs supposedly. Last time I was there, I was shooting Oly so my bag looked small boarding the plane. I'm sure it was over 10lbs.
Always check the airline and be prepared to check a heavy bag. I've seen domestic flight crew take a bag due to weight, but only twice. In both cases the bags were not large, but they were clearly too heavy for the passenger to easily manage. WTF was in them? No idea.
The Lithium Battery excuse may work.
I doubt it. Who knows.
Domestic? Get the plane size. A 50 seater will gate check your stuff.
That's why people who fly domestic like the Pellican hard cases. You can wrap your stuff, pack it tight, lock it up and gate check it if need be.
I am no expert. And I tell ya, I've seen guys who can shoot rings around me with one old body and two lenses or kit glass carried in a cloth grocery sack. It's all good.
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