Compact kit with best IQ for travel?

zuikowesty wrote:

BruceRH wrote:

For you, the 12mm and stitch for wide. Zoom, the 14-150, a very nice lens on the EM5 MK II with excellent quality.

For your wife, the PL 15, a little wider than the Oly 17 but really either one is a great choice. Buy her a 14-150 too.

Looks like the 14-150 is getting a lot of votes...

I would consider getting the Olympus 9-18, one of my favorites, small and mine has impressive sharpness. With the IBIS, very easy to great indoor shots. The Laowa is nice and small with decent sharpness but I prefer the rendering of my Olympus 9-18.

Computer? An iPad Pro.

I'm a bit old school to consider an iPad a computer, and I just can't get used to iOS... besides, I try to avoid buying anything Apple, except for their stock - part of my retirement plan I use a 2015 MBP, but re-built it for almost free from parts, only cost me a $40 trackpad and some time spent cleaning the boards. For now, it's light enough to travel with.

I traveled with PowerBooks and MacBook Pros for years, and got really tired of the size and weight, but mainly all the extra cables and power supply. I tried my iPad several years back and it was a revelation! Now I travel with carry-ons ONLY!

Not only is is the weight and bulk negligible… but I started using it to navigate when driving rental cars while traveling. (I don’t own a car) My girlfriend and I drove a big 1800 km + loop around Morocco a few years ago. We also drove up the coast of Uruguay and the Caribbean Coast of Colombia. We just came back from another trip to Morocco.

Even without cell service the iPad (iPhone, too) is able to show our position using offline maps, like Ulmon’s CityMaps2Go Pro and now Google Maps. We mark points of interest on maps as we do research… places, things to see, restaurants, stores, whatever. It’s a fun way to plan and execute a trip!

Now I have an iPad Pro 9.7” and every night I backup both our cameras using the Apple Camera Connection Kit. It does incremental backups that are dead easy to do! Then we have a nightly photo review. I never bother to edit images while traveling. What waste of precious time!