Traveling for a long assignment was Re: [Leica] Re: extra photo bag on plane

[jonathan at openhealth.org (Jonathan Borden)]

Tina Manley wrote:
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>
> Guess what.  I've even tried this.  I shipped a box of 100 rolls of 
> film to Tegucigalpa using DHL.  I cost me $150.  When I got to 
> Tegucigalpa, I planned to leave early the next morning going out to a 
> remote community in the mountains.  The DHL office (when I finally 
> found it in the maze of Teguc streets) was closed and didn't open for 
> 3 days.  It took them another week to find my package.  Luckily I had 
> only done it as an experiment and carried extra film with me.  When I 
> finally got the 100 rolls of film, I had already returned from the 
> trip to the mountains.  I'm just glad it wasn't my cameras or 
> something I couldn't do without!
>

Ouch... well you have a problem then :-} I assume you carry as much 
equipment as you can by hand to these sorts of places. It must be a 
logistical challenge.

So is it digital or film for these sorts of things? I imagine that 
digital has the space advantage (not needing to carry 100s of rolls of 
film) but what do you do if you can't recharge your batteries? And film 
has to be carried around but the batteries last a bit longer than a 
couple of hours. Or do you leave the laptop at home and carry lots of 
large CF cards?

Jonathan