Yes. Digital cameras shoot color. If you want B&W you have to convert in post processing. You could go back to film, I suppose and set up a dark room.

I have a couple Pelican cases that provide both padding and water proofing. I take my camera gear on multi day float trips on several western rivers, including the Grand Canyon. I wouldn't use anything less for expensive gear on the water, even flat water.

I have a Nikion Z 24-200 lens for my Z6 that I use as a general "walk around" lens. Thats for when I'm out walking the dog or on someother ramble that doesn't have any planned photo objective. Its just there as I walk around, in case something interesting comes up. I have other lenses, mainly for my D850 that tend to get more of a focused attention.

Red Mountain Pass is loads of fun in a snowstorm.... I've done it several times and had white knuckles for days.

There seems to be fire just about everywhere these days. The sky is full of smoke from California, Oregon, Montana and around here. There are still fires burning north of Grand Junction, Steamboat and south of Eagle.

Thomasville and Meradith are both not far from the Sylvan fire.

Not this year, or last year.... I'm in Carbondale and Glenwood.

This year the east side of the Front Range did have plenty of snow, and then rain in the spring. Here on the West Slope it has been far different. Little snow, almost no rain, high temps and low humidity, and no seasonal monsoon moisture in sight. Very smokey right now...

Yes, thats what they are called here and have been for many decades. Its moist air flowing up from the Pacific into the Four Corners. They occur in July and August. Not daily, and not an Indian deluge, but usually enough rain here on the West Slope to blunt the dry summer a bit. An afternoon thunderstorm with a short but steady rain for a bit. We had some of it a couple weeks ago, but now we are back into the hot, dry smoke haze conditions we had last year.

I live in Glenwood Springs and I-70 in the canyon is open, for the most part. The Monsoon Season has started, a bit (didn't happen at all last year, hence the fires...). We travel the canyon a fair amount - Costco and my daughter are on th east end. If it looks like we'll have an afternoon thunderstorm we go in the morning. If the canyon closes due to a mud slide it usually happens in the afternoon, as it has two or three times in the past week. It should be open by the next morning, so if you are traveling just get a motel room in Eagle.

If the canyon closes for a longer time, as it has in the past with major rock slides (sometimes for weeks) the detour is about 200 miles, from Wolcott to Steamboat to Craig to Meeker to Rifle and Glenwood. If you get forced on that road by all means take it! It's a very beautiful drive through some parts of Colorado that are not usuall tourist routes.

We have the same problems in the winter with seasonal closures, avalanches, heavy snow and idiot accidents on the passes. We just get used to it as a price for living in a photographers paradise.

I made an error in my post on Iceland. The sweater wasn't 240,000 kroner, only 27,900 kroner, or $279. You get the tax refunded at the airport when leaving, in this case $79 or so.

I was also going to say that Diamond Beach and the Galcier Fjords on the south coast are worth the trip and not that far from Reykjavik. They are pretty well shot to death too....

Get some good travel guides and plan your trip yourselves. The Golden Circle is good and close in to Reykjavik, but you should get out to the north and east. My wife and I were there for a week a few years ago and I found plenty to shoot. I'd love to go back for a couple weeks and drive the Ring Road around the island. The Westfjords are beautiful. The numerous waterfalls provide spectacular photo opportunities. If you rent a car, as I did, get the volcanic dust insurance and be ready for mostly well maintained gravel roads (except in the interior, where you'll need four wheel drive), and watch for sheep! They are the biggest road "hazard" and pretty expensive should you hit one. Get a good wool sweater instead (only 240,000 kroner... One kroner is about a penny, or was in 2017).

The place can be expensive, but you can find ways to save. Still, a sandwich at Subway in Reykjavik is twice what you'd pay in the US. And skip the Blue Lagoons They are just a tourist trap. Reykjavik has a very nice community pool and hot tubs at a fraction of the cost, and next door to the city operated Hostel.

Its a wonderful place. Have fun!!

Take it. If you are in a car, the weight is meaningless.

I had no trouble when I ordered my D850 from B&H, but that was a while back. I also had ordered a 70-200mm 2.8 lens in late January that was backordered with the "2 to 4 weeks" notice. That went on for nearly three months. I'm also waiting on some Lee filters that have been backordered for nearly the same amount of time.

As long as you have the 810 my advise would be to work with that and just be patient on the 850. I don't know why the plant in Thailand would be holding things up, unless it has to do with the broader disruption of trade caused by. the pandemic. That disruption extends to Nikon's ability to get the raw materials needed for lens and camera manufacture as well as shipping finished product. The Thai plant has been there for a while. I remeber driving by it on a tour bus in 2013 and was happy to see where a lot of my gear has come from!

Everything I've seen indicates that Nikon will be focusing primarily on their mirrorless line rather than DSLR's. I just purchased an 850, trading in my old 810 and I don't think either are going to be "obsolete" anytime soon.