After chatting with my son, the retired
soldier, and my nephew the cop, I was reminded that no matter where
you're traveling with your gear,
Personal safety is most important. Gear can always be replaced.
Bob
Bob wrote:
Andrew,
When I traveled out of the US here is what I did.
I took my gear to the US Customs House nearest me. We listed, on
a form provided by them, all my gear and the Customs Official put
the "Official Stamp" on the list.
This was recommended to me by more seasoned international
travelers than I was. The advantages to this are A: I had an
official list verified by the US Customs people. And B: This list
proved that I had the gear prior to leaving the US so I would not
have a hassle about any taxes for buying out of the US and
bringing it home with me.
Since I think you are more than a hobby photographer you should look
into any insurance available to cover loss or damage if you are not
already covered and be sure it includes international travel.
Any camera bag you might have should be as unobtrusive as possible. No
camera logo or name on the bag. One guy I knew used a baby's diaper
bag when traveling.
If you're taking a laptop with you you can easily transfer the images
from the CF cards to a DVD at day's end. If not taking a laptop
perhaps you can find a shop that does digital printing and have the
images put on a DVD.
I hope this helps.
Bob
Andrew Paul Brooks wrote:
Hi,
Just after some ideas and advice on traveling as a photographer.
Me and my girlfriend are planning on doing a multi stop world tour,
and I really would like to travel with a good quality dSLR but I have
some worries about safety. Does anyone have any good tips and advice.
Also I picked up a Cannon G9 with the idea of this being my travel
camera, as it's quite small, but I've found the images quality is not
really as good as I'm looking for, can anyone recommend a compact
which has images quality of a digi SLR(I have a D300 so would like a
compact approching that)
Also any tips on file storage when traveling, I tend to get through
8gig memory cards very quickly which creating getting the RAW elements
to create my images ( http://www.andrewbrooksphotography.com/
)
Cheers in advance for any help
Andrew
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