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Gear for travel over the years

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gdanmitchell
gdanmitchell Veteran Member • Posts: 7,991
Re: Gear for travel over the years

The OP's mention of the Pentax system brings back memories. Decades ago we (my wife and I) took the tiny ME and MX bodies on long Sierra Nevada backpacking trips and other kinds of travel, using a few of the excellent little Pentax lenses that were available for the system. Those were beautiful travel cameras in their day.

Later on I inherited a Rollei 35 from my father. For those who don't know the camera, it was not much larger than a pack of cigarettes and it had a retracting lens — 35mm focal length if I recall. It was the smallest high quality 35mm camera I ever saw. (It since ended up in the hands of one of my sons... who collets and uses old Leica's. But I digress.)

When it comes to "travel cameras," we are fortunate to have so many great options today. I can do things with the gear that I travel with today that I couldn't have done with that older gear. One of the BEST things is that we don't have to carry and manage all of that film! On one of our long (two-week) backpacking trips, my wife and I carried something like 30 rolls of film. Today? Memory cards.

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