I am fortunate enough to have two lovely holidays planned for this year. The first will be in April so I need to start getting together the photography equipment I need. As a newbie I'm not too sure what I should take so I am looking for any suggestions and advice you could give me.
In April I shall be on a bike tour. The plan is to travel through South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi. I will obviously be limited in the amount of luggage I can take with me, but I certainly want to give myself the best possible chance of taking good photographs. I currently have my Canon 450 with the 18-55mm lens as well as a Tamron 70-300mm lens. I'm thinking of leaving the 70-300mm lens behind as it is quite weighty and using my bridge camera with 12x zoom for any long zoom shots.
I was also thinking of getting the Canon 50mm f1.8 lens for low light shots and possibly getting a wide angle lens too? I am also considering a light weight tripod and a flash gun.
Does this seem a reasonable list of equipment which hopefully wont weigh me down too much? I will need to make room in my panniers for everything else.
The second hoilday will be a safari in Kenya and trekking mountain gorillas in Uganda and Rwanda, so I should be able to use the same equipment and wont be too limited luggage wise.
In April I shall be on a bike tour. The plan is to travel through South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi. I will obviously be limited in the amount of luggage I can take with me, but I certainly want to give myself the best possible chance of taking good photographs. I currently have my Canon 450 with the 18-55mm lens as well as a Tamron 70-300mm lens. I'm thinking of leaving the 70-300mm lens behind as it is quite weighty and using my bridge camera with 12x zoom for any long zoom shots.
I was also thinking of getting the Canon 50mm f1.8 lens for low light shots and possibly getting a wide angle lens too? I am also considering a light weight tripod and a flash gun.
Does this seem a reasonable list of equipment which hopefully wont weigh me down too much? I will need to make room in my panniers for everything else.
The second hoilday will be a safari in Kenya and trekking mountain gorillas in Uganda and Rwanda, so I should be able to use the same equipment and wont be too limited luggage wise.
