How to travel with backpack & suitcase? (photographer/videographer)
I've never traveled on long distances with a suitcase before. It's always been unbelievable to me how one can carry a backpack and a suitcase, especially if he goes to more remote places like jungle, desert etc.
Due to the fact the older I am the lighter I want to travel, I changed all my heavy DSLR gear to light mirrorless cameras and ordered a smaller but durable backpack (Wndrd Prvke 31l) instead of normal hiking 60l.
Thing is I carry lots of quite expensive gear with me and as long as I don't take photo camera and video camera at the same time it's fine. But when the assignment which needs both comes I know the backpack by itself will be overloaded and the gear can get damaged - even if not damaged, then it's not the best idea to carry everything in one bag.
For this scenario, I was thinking of buying a Peli 1535 Air suitcase - then I could travel carry-on with both and don't be afraid of airlines losing my suitcase.
Main question is: how the heck do professionals travel with both?
As long as you stay in hotels, that's fine. As long as you have whole crew, that's fine - there will be some transportation organized, even in the most remote Africa/Antarctica places. But traveling alone?
How do You move between places if You travel Africa for example? It's easy answer when You travel cities and concrete places but can't imagine holding a heavy suitcase for 3-5 kilometres when there's only gravel road everywhere.
There were many times when I hiked for 3-4 days with all my gear just to do the shot. There were many times where I captured one of my best frames ONLY because I had my hands free and carrying a backpack on my back I could still take a frame.
How do you do it?
Some of you will say - to leave the suitcase at hotel/overnight place. But what if You camp new place every night (Iceland trip) or travel with a rented motorbike (Vietnam trip)? I think the hard suitcase is very limiting then and traveling with it is pointless if You don't know where would You sleep. I guess it applies only when Your assignment is really well planned.
Some of you will say - pack lighter, pack minimal. I come from the same camp. Pack as minimal as you can. You can always buy clothes and other things at the destination - as long as there's people living there. That's not the case though, unfortunately.
If you go for an assignment, you can't tell your client or subject you didn't take the video because you had no recorder with you.
The gear I use if traveling for two sided assignment I'm making a living of:
- X-Pro 2 + 56mm (photo)
- ELB400 + 1x HS head
- Manfrotto Nano lightstand
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Rotalux Deep Octa 70cm
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X-H1 (in cage) + 16-55mm (video)
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Zoom H6 recorder + Videomic pro
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9V battery
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follow focus
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rails + shoulder pad
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external 7" monitor
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Mavic Pro
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Manfrotto Befree Carbon tripod + Benro S4 head
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Zhiyun Crane 2 gimbal
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WD My Passport Wireless SSD (which should gimme a chance to leave the laptop @ office)
The gear I use when traveling for fun:
- X-Pro 2 + 35mm
- Manfrotto Befree Carbon tripod
- Macbook Pro 15"
So as You can see there's much difference between the two. When traveling for assignment, I can easily pack all this stuff to Wandrd Prvke 31l but there won't be place for anything more. That's ok, I can buy clothes @ the destination but where to put them then?
I hope You got my point. Not an easy one!
Submitted March 11, 2018 at 05:18PM by paulsoiree http://ift.tt/2IkaoOG
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