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Flowernut wrote:
two bodies, 24-105 (two one is a backup), 100-500, 14-35. with normal accessories tripod, cable release
laptop with external drives
Subject is scenic in dolomites and Venice. could go with 70-300 rather than 100-500 but ti doesn't save much weight. maybe a 70-200? Most photos will probably be taken with 24-105 so I want a backup for it and the body. Seen too many people drop a camera and be out for the rest of the trip.
If I understand correctly, you want to use one luggage bag/suitcase (checked), one camera bag that can be carried onboard, plus a small bag, perhaps a shoulder bag. You carry two bodies (don’t know what size) a long telephoto zoom, a wide angle zoom, a tripod, other accessories, and you laptop plus your other non-photo stuff.
The biggest challenge is perhaps the tripod. If you are taking any kind of “serious” tripod, even a lighter one, that probably is not going in your carry-on luggage. When I carry a larger tripod on flights like this, I remove the head and center column and put the tripod into my checked luggage. (If I have space I carry the head in my carry-on luggage.)
That usually means that I check a medium size (too big for carry-on but not the largest size) roller with all of my regular travel stuff (clothes, etc.) plus the tripod.
I have a non-rolling camera backpack (an older one from Lowepro) into which I can squeeze a body (5DsR), and up to four lenses: 16-35, 24-70, 70-200, 100-400. the 16-35 and 100-400 are f/4 lenses. I can also get my accessories (batteries, filters, etc.) into this bag.
That’s more lenses but fewer bodies than you carry. Since size is more likely to be a constraint than weight, I would consider the 70-300mm lens and, if it is compatible, a 1.4x TC “just in case.”
Your small shoulder bag can probably handle a small laptop (I never travel with a full size laptop any more) and other small items.
The closest to what you are trying to do that I’ve done recently* was a trip to photograph New England fall color a few years ago. It worked out just fine.
* We do a fair amount of European travel — 10-12 weeks er year — and we’ve learned to downsize what we take. You’d be amazed by how far that can take you. We’ve traveled for up to 10 weeks straight with nothing more than carry-on luggage — a backpack (sometimes a roller) and a single under-seat bag.
Good luck.
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I have also learned to downsize my camera gear quite a bit for travel in most cases. While I drag along a ton of stuff (sometimes two systems) for my American landscape photography, in Europe I mostly stick to a smaller APS-C camera and a set of three smallish primes. I realize that landscape photography — which I presume you want to do in the Dolomites — will require different gear, but do try to hold it to what you actually _know_ you will _need_, and not include things that you might, maybe, possibly sort of wish you had.
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