Daily Archives: August 4, 2014

 

One of the things about being a photographer is experiences alter our perceptions!  Recently I have been wanting to carry just as few key lenses and keep it light!  Then I did the workshop in Nashville and we shot a lot of different subject matter, and I constantly found what I wanted was back in the SUV or at the hotel!!!  Well I missed some opportunities because, well I didn’t have what I need with me.  When I shot Nikon, carrying everything meant forty pounds, maybe even more!!!  That was not possible, but with the Fuji X System I can actually manage to carry all the lenses in a small backpack that ways only 10.5 pounds.  So what can you put into a Lowepro Flipside Sport 10L AW?

 

Fuji X-T1 with battery pack and Really Right Stuff “L” bracket

55-200 f 3.5-4.8 LM OIS

56mm f 1.2

60mm Micro f 2.5

23mm f 1.4

14mm f 2.8

10-24 f 4.0

 

I always have a Fuji X-T1 with the 18-55  f 2.8-4 LM OIS and a RRS “L” Bracket and my RRS Tripod and B55H-LR ball head separately.

 

4 – NPW-126 batteries

Guru Gear SD Card Holder (with 11 – 32 gig cards)

Filter Holder with:  Nikon 5T & 6T Diopter  –  Canon 250 D Diopter 

 52mm Polarizer – 39mm Polarizer  – 49mm Polarizer

Jeweler’s screwdriver

A Think Tank rain cover

 

The new back up bag that will remain  in the FJ, a Think Tank Retrospective 5 :

 

Fuji X-E1 with 35mm f 1.4 lens

Fuji X100s with 23mm f2 lens

4 – WP-126 batteries

4 – NP-95 batteries

1 Remote Release

Eyelead Sensor cleaner

Lots of Zeiss lens cleaning wipes

Three Microfiber cloths

 

 

In a Accessory bag (Think Tank Speed changer) I have:

4 Chargers

Photographic Solutions Cleaning supplies

Tools

Close-up diopter from Rayonox 

Blower bulb

More Zeiss wipes

 

 

So my next trip, up to Shaker Village, I hope I will find  that this is the way to be prepared, we will see!!!???

 

Let me take a moment to express my deepest appreciation to the great folks that joined us in Nashville, what a wonderful group!!  A very special thanks to Ricky for being what he always is;  a super star, loving , kind, and a kick to hang out with!! My incredible team, Jim, Snake, Vinny,  Bob, the incomparable Nick Coury, and our newest and wonderful KelbyOne friend, Pete Collins.  But most of all, the blessings of a loving God, who once again brought some strangers together. and unleashed His Holy Spirit on us all!

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim

 

Just for giggles, single click on the image and look at it close!  ISO 6400!!!!!

 

So…..what’s the point of owning a few dozen bags, and backpacks if you can’t rearrange them!