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Which camera for lightweight travel kit?

Started Oct 19, 2018 | Questions thread
Day Hiker Forum Pro • Posts: 10,829
Everyone’s idea of a travel kit is different

Some people want to carry a bunch of small lightweight lenses and call that a lightweight kit. You seem to have a kit like that now. When traveling, I consider a lot of lenses, no matter how small or lightweight, annoying.

Some want to carry just one lens and concentrate on the trip and not so much on the photographic aspect (keeps the spouse happy). The 12-40 Pro and 12-100 Pro do that.

I’m in between. Anymore, my lightweight travel kit is one body and two lenses:

  • Pen F with Oly grip
  • M.Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro
  • M.Zuiko 8mm f/1.8 Pro fisheye

Occasionally I will substitute in the M.Zuiko 75mm f/1.8 for the fisheye. It depends upon the nature of the trip. The entire kit fits in a tiny ThinkTank Mirrorless Mover 20 bag. My backup is a Fujifilm X70 that I keep packed away in my luggage in the event my Olympus system fails or is stolen (neither has happened yet).

Jim Pilcher
Summit County, Colorado, USA
Life is good in the woods

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