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 p.1 #14 · If you do a lot of traveling, do you even bring a regular camera with you? | |
I traveled extensively for business in my previous, younger life, including international months-long, multi-country trips and was on the road 80% of the time. I had the same dilemma, and went so far as to buy a special backpack where my laptop fit in the top, and the bottom had a camera bag that fit my D200. When the NEX 5n came out, I switched to the small EDC with small manual focus lenses along with a string of pocketable point and shoots (that all broke, eventually, even after repairs). Now I travel with a Leica D-Lux 7 or Sony RX1R III.
I greatly value the *memory* of each photo, and would perhaps caution you deleting any photo so soon (measured in decades) after your travels. As I'm older, when I look back to these trips and really that period in my life, the photos become the memory. And I value them not so much from a critical aesthetic, but rather the memory that it brings back, and my only time visiting those countries ("No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man" as the saying goes). I value high quality images that I can zoom in, see details that at the time were ignored, and value the memory. I have similar trips from my youth, and some are single frames of people long forgotten except for that memory. Maybe in 20, 30, 50 years, you will want to revisit these travel memories when you can no longer (physically perhaps) travel, and you will value different photos than those that you produce for client work, and I think you will be glad you took and saved them.
Anecdotally, I was in Rome and at the time really liked high contrast, back-lit shadow shots and took so many photos where faces and people were obscured. It was fun at the time. When I look at them now, I simply wish I could remember the faces. Maybe you'll feel the same in the future if most of what you take on an entire trip is ICM.
If you can accomplish and organize a month-long trip with a smartphone, then that is a perfect EDC tool for you. The quality is very good. For me, I still travel with higher quality EDCs along with an iPhone since I take different types of photos with both, and value both tools. Hope that helps, and enjoy your trip!
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