Going on a photography safari or a hiking excursion can be one of your greatest adventures which will bring fond memories for you to share. But such a trip requires carrying lots of equipment and electronics. Sometimes an excursion means doing multiple flights, train rides, car or bus displacements, and constantly changing hotels. Forgetting an appliance during one of your displacements can totally ruin your trip!
When I put that in perspective, I find it necessary making a checklist for my photography travels:
- Passport
- Wallet
- Keys
- Camera
- Lenses for camera
- Camera's batteries and charger
- Camera's memory cards
- Mobile phone + charger
- Electronic tablet + charger
- Laptop computer
- Electric toothbrush + charger
- Electric adaptor
Being environmentally conscious myself I can recognise that the objects in this checklist are big energy spenders. But it's possible to change this list a little to make it more "ecological", for example replacing the electric toothbrush by a regular one.
Furthermore, the tablet can completely replace the laptop. Ideally the tablet should have a good memory capacity and a memory card reader in order to backup the photographs taken. Sometimes a tablet charger can also be used for recharging the mobile phone, as it is the case for the iPhone and iPad, requiring overall fewer items to carry.
Someone might have a high level of green thinking and bring a solar battery charger! These devices are fantastic, but you must consider that they are still expensive, and their large size use a lot of space in a suitcase. Maybe in a few years they will become more practical?
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