Jim Poor
01-14-2008, 09:33 AM
I just signed up to take a slot that came open due to a cancellation.
Has anyone been on one of these? The trip I will be on is to FL for FL Birds in March.
I don't imagine I'll have much need for many of my shorter lenses, but the instructions say "bring all your gear" for a shakedown on the first day. They make a big point of that in the email and on the phone. I'm afraid they don't quite know what the might be getting into if I bring all my gear :D
Anywho, I was wondering what advice folks might have as to "must have" items that I may not already own. I'm thinking of adding a mono pod.
I'll be taking (among other things) the following. I'll be driving so I don't have to worry about planes.
Bodies
D2X, D300, D3
Flash
2X SB800 with Better Beamer
Wimberly flash Brackets (both telephoto and Wimberly head models)
Digital Camera Battery external power for the flash (on the way to me today)
R1C1 Closeup commander flash kit with 6 X SBR200 flashes
Sync Cable
Lenses
600mm f4
500mm f8 mirror lens
200-400mm VR
70-300mm VR (This resides in my back up kit)
70-200mm f2.8 VR
80-400mm VR (probably going to sell this or move it to the back up kit)
105mm VR
17-55mm
50mm
20mm
14-24mm
10.5mm
TC 1.4 & 1.7 (I've avoided the 2.0 for now, as I haven't been real happy with reports on quality)
Support
Old Wimberly Head
BH-55
Two Gitzo Tripods (one CF one old metal one)
A couple cheap tripods to mount remote flashes on.
Processing
Laptop (MacBook Pro)
Cintique tablet
2 X 360 GB external drives
Eyeone pro
CF reader
Flash Cards
2 X Sandisk 16 GB
2 X Sandisk 8 GB
2 X Generic (Microcenter) 2GB
Quick Camo blind
Has anyone been on one of these? The trip I will be on is to FL for FL Birds in March.
I don't imagine I'll have much need for many of my shorter lenses, but the instructions say "bring all your gear" for a shakedown on the first day. They make a big point of that in the email and on the phone. I'm afraid they don't quite know what the might be getting into if I bring all my gear :D
Anywho, I was wondering what advice folks might have as to "must have" items that I may not already own. I'm thinking of adding a mono pod.
I'll be taking (among other things) the following. I'll be driving so I don't have to worry about planes.
Bodies
D2X, D300, D3
Flash
2X SB800 with Better Beamer
Wimberly flash Brackets (both telephoto and Wimberly head models)
Digital Camera Battery external power for the flash (on the way to me today)
R1C1 Closeup commander flash kit with 6 X SBR200 flashes
Sync Cable
Lenses
600mm f4
500mm f8 mirror lens
200-400mm VR
70-300mm VR (This resides in my back up kit)
70-200mm f2.8 VR
80-400mm VR (probably going to sell this or move it to the back up kit)
105mm VR
17-55mm
50mm
20mm
14-24mm
10.5mm
TC 1.4 & 1.7 (I've avoided the 2.0 for now, as I haven't been real happy with reports on quality)
Support
Old Wimberly Head
BH-55
Two Gitzo Tripods (one CF one old metal one)
A couple cheap tripods to mount remote flashes on.
Processing
Laptop (MacBook Pro)
Cintique tablet
2 X 360 GB external drives
Eyeone pro
CF reader
Flash Cards
2 X Sandisk 16 GB
2 X Sandisk 8 GB
2 X Generic (Microcenter) 2GB
Quick Camo blind