All depends on the airline configuration. There is a lot of space, but if the seating’s are optimized for the number of passengers there is no other way than squeezing the seats tight in economy class. Each company can configure them differently.
I found another answer. If you can do exactly the same thing or more, with a user interface exactly the same or better, but the package is a lot smaller and lighter, then why bother lugging around more weight ?
The thing is that D3 (and the likes) is not a carry around camera. It is a specialized camera, that is used for specialized type of photography, like fast, with loads of dr, etc., etc ... The D300, as an example, is somewhere on the border between specialized and carry around camera, although in my book is is not a carry around setup either. More like get to the spot, do your shoot, and go home. The E-xxx, panasonics, lumixes, etc., on the other hand, are not specialized for any particular type of photography cameras (as the same images can be taken with anything larger and with ease), but either can be taken along to anywhere you go, and therefore be around when you think you need it. Personally, I always prefer fewer but better captured frames to loads of snaps that are forgotten as soon as they are copied, but tastes differ, and so the smaller and lighter cameras exist. What you do is comparing bus to a small car, and with regrets that one can not be what the other is. Well, it does not have to, and that is why we have each.
and the D300 weighs more than 5D and is within mm's of the same size. Yet it has the same Mp and cannot manage the same DoF control
--More like get to the spot, do your shoot, and go home. The E-xxx, panasonics, lumixes, etc., on the other hand, are not specialized for any particular type of photography cameras (as the same images can be taken with anything larger and with ease), but either can be taken along to anywhere you go, and therefore be around when you think you need it. Personally, I always prefer fewer but better captured frames to loads of snaps that are forgotten as soon as they are copied, but tastes differ, and so the smaller and lighter cameras exist. What you do is comparing bus to a small car, and with regrets that one can not be what the other is. Well, it does not have to, and that is why we have each.
You are a brave man if you carry you gear on the motorcycle. I do not put my lenses even into the trunk of the car.
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- sergey
Why not? If they are not visible no one knows what's in the trunk. I do it all the time all over, have also done it in Austria.
I was using D300 as the borderline weight reference (since it has been so much talked about). Same goes for 5D (and its younger brother II). It is not the camera than most people need, least to say haul around everywhere. Although it is an outstanding machine once mastered.
Where I live I leave my car windows open overnight, it is not a problem. What I meant was that there seem to be too much vibration in the trunk of the car when driving. I put my gear either on the back or the front seat only, and only when well packed (in a bag). I heard somewhere that precision optics do get out of calibration of continuously shaken, and so (right or wrong) I do not take chances. Attaching the bag to the motorcycle would be the last thing I'd ever do.
Where I live I can normally do that as well, but the laptop story happened in a shopping area, not on my drive way.
I see. Well, some times there are no other options than the trunk but generally I keep my camera on one of the seats and all the lenses in the bag as well. The camera with one lens is some times beside me but if I am driving with the family on a family vacation there are no other options than the trunk. I do however understand the vibration issue, but that's different in different cars as well and it also depends on the road and the driving style. However, I never leave my lenses on their own in the trunk to roll around freely; they are always in the bag. With a motor bike it is different. I believe vibrations are stronger, but even there much of that depends on you and the bike model. In any case, if you are using a bike there are no other options, there is no back seat which can be used.
