Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In the good old days of prop driven 4 engine passenger planes everything was weighed included your carry on bag and if you were in total over weight it cost a bundle. So some of the guys I know including self would load the shoulder bag to everything possible to get in. The checked suit case would be lighter allowing room for a extra pounds to make the legitimate 40 lbs. limit. So if the shoulder bag were placed on scale it just made it OK. Other wise it cost a fortune extra. Obviously bag in near empty state. A PLAN! Sneaky but it worked until the days of the big jet liners and weight didn't seem to be a problem. We'd arrive at airport extra early, find a large locker... that was in the days when lockers were available until the morons started using them for placing bombs. Find a big locker, empty shoulder bag of the heavy lenses, several camera bodies and cut the weight at least in half or more. Then lock it up, bag on shoulder.... "Aaaahhh that felt better!" Then went to check in and the baggage limit was usually met with a few ounces to spare. All smiling getting boarding pass next stop Paris!:-) Of course with a quick stop at locker, retrieve heavy gear stuffing the bag back to full capacity and some. Then off to departure gate. Worked wonders. However due to the economic state of the airlines today and charging for extra bags we may have to devise a similar method. :-) cheers, ted ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 8:37 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Traveling with a camera > My math brings me to two Om-1's being about the same size as a full frame > Modern DSLR certainly a Nikon D700. The lenes would be about 20% bigger if > you matched them lens per lens but they way people work now is with one or > two zooms certainly the smart option in this case. > No not only are you not worse off you are actually a heck of a lot BETTER > off than the days of film. By a country mile. > The bricks of film = a few cards. > > My experience directly is from doing road trips with > A. DSLR's (cropped), > B. SLR's and film. > C. Leica M6's and a set of glass. > D. Hasselblads. > I'll take A. any day. > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > mark at rabinergroup.com > > >> From: Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:56:38 -0500 (CDT) >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Traveling with a camera >> >> On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> (excerpted)... >> >>> I long for a quality DSLR the size and solidity of the Olympus OM series >>> or >>> even the Leica III series. I neither need nor want the bells and >>> whistles, >>> including the 27 exposure modes built into most modern cameras. I can >>> think >>> for myself, thank you, and set the camera as needed. >> ============================================================================== >> ===================== >> I have the same wish/philosophy. I hate bulky cameras. >> >> I'm not sure if I could do now what I did in 1993, when I traveled >> through >> England and the Isle of Man on a motorcycle, shooting stock photos. >> Because I >> used Olympus OM equipment, along with my clothing and other personal >> items for >> a trip of two weeks on a bike, I was able to pack two OM bodies(for >> Kodachrome >> and B&W), 21, 50, 100 and 300mm lenses, a small Vivitar tripod, and an >> Olympus >> Stylus. Because I needed lenses longer than what an M8/M9 supports, and >> from >> what Tina says about QC, these days I'd have to use a huge DSLR body and >> lenses, extra (big) batteries, and chargers, etc. Trying to carry all >> this on >> a motorcycle might not be practical. Or maybe I'm wrong; Nathan could >> probably >> set me straight. >> >> >> Alan >> >> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer >> UPAA POY 1978 >> University Information Technology Services >> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee >> amr3 at uwm.edu >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information