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JaKo wrote:
Ronny, I still have modded A7R and standard A7R2 and on trips the two cameras work best for me. No need to change lenses often in the field as you can plan for specific setup (21/35, 21/50 or 35/50) and just keep both of them 'on' with a set of spare batteries. I think Samuli hes three cameras and keeps semi-fixed lenses to keep it fast and clean.
Ronny,
For travelling & hiking 2-4 cameras works best in my opinion. I'm lazy and if I have just one camera, then I don't use the best field of view=perspective for each shot, instead on timeline I see that I'm stuck to one lens for some part of the trail/path/road/time/whatever, and then change to another, and then stuck on that one. If you are not lazy then one camera may work. I was big fan of multicamera shooting already before Sony-era, at "worst" times I carried 2x5DmkII + 1x1DmkIII 
Other issue is sensor dust, when changing lenses on forest/swamp/non-clean-place. For example there was so much pollen in air on Lapland during my vacation that there was zero change to change lens in forests/swamps without getting some pollen to sensor, maybe after rain it would have worked for few minutes.
I was just 2 week hiking in Lapland, but had AirBnb "base camp", returned to it daily = didn't carry tent, sleepingbag etc., just water and food in addition to cameras. Thanks to very small footprint of Sony FE-cameras and excellent backbag (LowePro Tactical 450AW), I was easily able to carry 4 cameras. Here is LowePro packed with A7v2 w/ ZM18, A7r w/ ZM25, A7 (Kolari mod) w/ ZM2/35 and A7(Kolari mod) w/ Leica APO 90. To have variation of rendering styles I had other set of lenses with me as well; Contax G-series 21, 28, 45 and 90 - packs naturally exactly the same way into this backbag. For each day at "base camp" I changed lenses, so that I had best lenses for planned shoot (actually laziness hit also here and it was more or less 2-3 days same lenses, then change from ZM to G rendering style or vice versa, and few times used the below mentioned 3 lens setup).
Rear view of the backbag: link. The MOLLE-system is nice, easy to add small or larger additional bags/pouches for food, water, etc. For example that small green pouch has my coretex-jacket, extra pair of shoelacess and compass. I have had >15 photo backbags, and this is far best and I have hard time figuring out how to improve it even I could custom design one for myself. It also fits nicely larger lenses; on past weekend I was shooting with ZE135+metabones+A7v2, ZE28+metabones+A7(Kolari) and FE55+A7r, and I can keep all hoods on lenses and everything still fits fine.
On some days I had longer hikes and had to fit more food & water, and carried only 3 cameras, set of G21 + ZM2/35 + Leica90APO was nearly perfect, but all 3 lenses require Kolari modified camera body for perfect operation, and I just had two, due to which I had to put Leica 90APO to non-modified camera, which caused me to use thicker DOF to hide thick sensor glass caused astigmatism & field curvature in some photos with Leica90APO.
In order to fix issue of "only having 2 Kolari modified cameras" I was planning to get Loxia 85 to get the "optimal 3 lens setup", but I could not find one from Finland. Instead I bumbed to used Sony FE 1.4/85mm GM. Now testing it to figure out would it fit to my camerabag - images did look great on viewfinder, but boke looks worse on larger size on majority of photos- time will show can I adapt to this lens or not. Rendering style is very much different than Zeiss lenses (real Zeiss lenses with traditional Zeiss rendering, not talking Tamron Batis here)
Sony FE 1.4/85 GM @ f/1.4, 1/2500s, ILCE-7M2 @ ISO 100
Sony FE 1.4/85 GM @ f/1.4, 1/2000s, ILCE-7M2 @ ISO 100
Sony FE 1.4/85 GM @ f/5.6, 1/250s, ILCE-7M2 @ ISO 100
Samuli
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