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 Re: Travel and only bring iPhone. Fulfilling? | |
"What if I just leave all dSLR gear at home and only bring iPhone and binoculars. Anyone tried this? Was it fulfilling?"
I'm not as crazy and courageous as you are, so when I walked from Chamonix to Zermatt over too many mountain passes I shared an RX100 V with my daughter while my wife relied on her iPhone. That worked well, and we enjoyed a memorable (and, yes, "fulfillng") trip.
We walked in a small group of very fit people (one self-effacing fellow had summited Everest a few months before our trip, the others were avid cyclists or trail runners, etc.) They (perhaps "we") wanted and needed to move quickly, given that a day's hike might cover up to 14 miles and thousands of feet of ascent and descent, sometimes over rough ground and in poor conditions. Well, although I at least used to be fit, there wasn't much time for photography, anyway, even if I had been able to carry a heavier kit.
This year I'm going to take along an A7R III and just two small, lightweight lenses (one wide angle and an 85/4) on a similar trip and enjoy watching my daughter record our memories with the RX100 V. Although I'll be walking with just my (somewhat more accommodating) family this time, because we'll still have to cover a lot of ground I suppose that I'll have to consider an important point of the thoughtful essay linked below, which is to distinguish "memory" shots from creative efforts:
https://www.dearsusan.net/2018/04/23/715-monday-post-23-april-2018-finding-a-useful-spot-for-my-smartphone-in-my-photographic-workflow/
For my purposes, the little Sony and the iPhone acquitted themselve well for the "memory" shots. I suppose that I missed the few (creative!) images that might have displaced some of large prints on my walls, but we have the memories.
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