[Leica] What would you take to Peru?

[richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)]

I am going to channel Tina and say

The Leica M9

:-)

I know that the California high altitude Sun makes the sky really blue, so
I presume same in Peru (same Sun after all). There is some rumor about the
XPan metering being overexposed at high altitude but I haven't been able to
confirm that so that may or may not affect your Fujis.

If it is me, I would go for a lightweight great everything camera, e.g. may
be the M8 with a couple lens (e.g. 21 and a 50?), and then one camera and
one lens that you know will give you the highest quality image possible,
even if that weighs a bit more.

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Dante Stella <dstella1 at 
ameritech.net>wrote:

>
> Since this is sometimes a place for abstraction, I'll pose a hypothetical.
>
> Assume that you are a male in good physical conditioning.  If you are
> going traipsing around in the mountains and among ruins in Peru, what would
> you take?  I'm headed out next week.  Usually, no matter where I go, I take
> a Fuji GA645, 20 rolls of 120 film (for b/w), and some small camera for
> color.  Sometimes a 6x9 Fuji instead of the "little" Fuji.  I've been
> pretty good at making it work, as Tim Gunn would say.
>
> Aside from Macchu Picchu, I think I can improvise with about anything.
>  But up on the mountain (a place where I probably will never return), what
> are the conditions like? Any weird-color light that screws with exposure
> meters (like in the desert)?  Any particular filtration?  Were I to deviate
> from my normal packing, there would be a lot of choices (these are the
> *realistic* ones...)
>
> Fuji GA645 (=35mm)
> - small, light, flawless
>
> Fuji GL690 (with 50, 100 and/or 180mm lenses)
> - heavy as hell, but the 50mm has eye-burning resolution
> - wants a separate meter
> - would require 40 rolls of film
>
> X100 (=35mm)
> - very lightweight, some ability to use grad NDs
>
> D700 (I can cover anything from 17 to 300mm)
> - heavy, fast, able to shoot in any light.  Great for ND grads
>
> Leica M8 (21 to 90mm)
> - Not bad for all purposes, but a little heavy
>
> Nex-5 (16mm or 18-55 lenses).
> - kills the X100 in shooting speed. Not bad at taking pictures, either.
> Excels at HD video.
> - somewhere, in a drawer, I have the superwide lens adapter
>
> Neither film nor batteries nor supplies are really an issue. If I took a
> GL690, I would grab a cheaper 50mm (=21mm) finder than my Universal
> Wideangle Finder M, but other than that, this will be off the shelf.  I
> would not take two heavy cameras, but aside from that, the sky is the
> limit. As I would imagine at 10,000 feet.
>
> Ideas?  I usually go on gut instinct the day before, but I do like to hear
> different perspectives.
>
> Thanks
> Dante
>
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