Flexibility - what do you bring? When on a photo trip or mission, I travel heavy. As many as three cameras and half a dozen lenses. Pretty much covers anything I might want to do.

Quixdraw Loc: x

When on a photo trip or mission, I travel heavy. As many as three cameras and half a dozen lenses. Pretty much covers anything I might want to do. However, I always have a camera, even without specific photo plans. When I go to the City it is the Leica D Lux 109 or the DF with 24-120 or 24-85. In the country, more an issue of distance vs. coverage. Often the D7200 with 200-500 or D3 with old AF 80-200, sometimes D750 with 70 or 75-300. The first covers the distance, but is not the best for landscape or other general subjects. The latter two don't have the range, but are more flexible. Always a compromise, and sometimes the camera / lens combination on hand dictates practical subject choice. What do you prefer for your type of photography?

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quixdraw wrote:

When on a photo trip or mission, I travel heavy. ... (show quote)

Easy toting:

15 to 90mm
15 to 90mm...

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12 to 32mm
12 to 32mm...

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10 to 24mm
10 to 24mm...

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

My camera and an 18-200 zoom; spare batteries and cards; maybe some filters.
It depends on where I'm going.
I travel light.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Photo trip:
Arca Swiss F line 4x5 / 6 lenses
Hasselblad 500C / 3 backs and 6 lenses
Nikon D850 / 4-6 lenses
Nikon F / 3 lenses
Gitzo tripod

Walk around town or local area:
Nikon F / 50mm
or
Leica IIIf / 35mm
--Bob

quixdraw wrote:

When on a photo trip or mission, I travel heavy. ... (show quote)

Quixdraw Loc: x

rmalarz wrote:

Photo trip:
Arca Swiss F line 4x5 / 6 lenses
Hasselblad 500C / 3 backs and 6 lenses
Nikon D850 / 4-6 lenses
Nikon F / 3 lenses
Gitzo tripod

Walk around town or local area:
Nikon F / 50mm
or
Leica IIIf / 35mm
--Bob

And I thought I traveled heavy! Of course you are melding formats and film into the mix as well. You must have a bunch of hard cases.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

My tripod my D5oo my 300-800 f 5.6 a 120-300 f2.8 a 1.4 tc and a 105 Nikon macro. Usually throw a 35mm f1.8 in the bag just in case. The usual extra batteries ect. I'm a wildlife nut. If action is slow the micro 105 comes in handy for flowers bugs ect.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Since I can pack the trunk of a car rather than saving space / weight in luggage, I tend to travel with more. But, for any given day, I try to limit it to one body and one lens, two lenses at most.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

rmalarz wrote:

Photo trip:
Arca Swiss F line 4x5 / 6 lenses
Hasselblad 500C / 3 backs and 6 lenses
Nikon D850 / 4-6 lenses
Nikon F / 3 lenses
Gitzo tripod

Walk around town or local area:
Nikon F / 50mm
or
Leica IIIf / 35mm
--Bob

You don't have film backs for the Arca?

JhnMhn

Going light; Canon R with RF 24-105 plus/or RF 35 Macro…if wildlife, insects, wildflowers or appropriate scenics, Canon R5 with RF 100-500 instead. Less Light; all of preceding. Going heavy; all of preceding plus: Canon TSE 24mm, Canon TS 90mm, Canon EF 16-35 f4, EF-RF adapters, extension tubes, lots of batteries, charger, tripod, mini tripod, macro focusing rail, Canon EF 65mm MPE, reflectors, all in a F-Stop Loka photo backpack. Mix & match variations of preceding depending on specificity of “mission”.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

quixdraw, not really. The only hard cases I have are for the 4x5 and the Phase One back. The rest are in sapper's bags.
--Bob

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And I thought I traveled heavy! Of course you are melding formats and film into the mix as well. You must have a bunch of hard cases.

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All of my light and easy kits (2nd post from begin of thread) have very wide but only minimal tele lenses.

I very recently added an all purpose tele, fits everything in that earlier post, but it’s new to me and I don’t even have all the adapters yet. For size reference it’s seen below on a Sony APSC.

Second pic is a tiny 250/5.6 that looks just about right-sized on that m4/3 body, but it’s really a film era (FF) relic.

Either of these two teles can expand a compact kit without defeating the “light and easy” idea, especially the 250/5.6.
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Voigtlander 200/4.0 (native M42)

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Minolta RF Rokkor-X 250/5.6
Minolta RF Rokkor-X 250/5.6...

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Quixdraw Loc: x

rmalarz wrote:

quixdraw, not really. The only hard cases I have are for the 4x5 and the Phase One back. The rest are in sapper's bags.
--Bob

Should have remembered, was impressed the last time you showed one. Even looked them up on line, but I live surrounded with cases & bags, so no present need.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

The backs I have are the 4x5 Graflok back, two Fotodiox shift-stitch backs for my Nikon digitals and my Phase One back, and a 120 roll film back.
--Bob

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You don't have film backs for the Arca?

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Wow I only own one camera and four lenses: D7200; Nikkor 200-500; Nikkor 70-300; Nikkor 18-55; Tamron 90 macro. Oh, I forgot my cell camera. I only carry one lens and it's on the camera. I go out looking for one type of subject and the lens is chosen accordingly. Do I miss some shots? Sure, but I'm so focused on my desired subjects I don't usually notice

Quixdraw Loc: x

Curmudgeon wrote:

Wow I only own one camera and four lenses: D7200; Nikkor 200-500; Nikkor 70-300; Nikkor 18-55; Tamron 90 macro. Oh, I forgot my cell camera. I only carry one lens and it's on the camera. I go out looking for one type of subject and the lens is chosen accordingly. Do I miss some shots? Sure, but I'm so focused on my desired subjects I don't usually notice

Well, you probably have better discipline than most of us!

And as I said, what you have with you controls some of the available options. On a mission is one thing, targets of opportunity at large, another! As an obvious victim of Photography Derangement Syndrome, what more can I say!