Hanheld? Tripod? Lens? Aperture? All great shots, but I'm a detail boy..

If you are going to hike, do not take your good stuff unless you are EXPERIENCED in hiking/photography.
Take something small and less $$ with a zoom lens like a SonyRX10 IV (See the wonderful suggestion above)

Alaska off the highway in the forests is the wettest place I have ever been...you will get wet and muddy if hiking, and all your stuff will suffer. Impossible to keep things dry..the ground, "squishes" It is always that
way, even if it hasn't rained for awhile.

Gloom Boy has spoken....trying to save your money. None of this applies if you are just going fishing.

Thanks for the reply...You remind me of me..

High ISO out of doors...because you're hand held?
Just want to learn..
I would've dropped to lower ISO for better color saturation, but then
again, I'm film trained..

Rod

Beautiful. Curious...what lens, aperture, and how many pixels/full frame or less?

That's a beauty right there!!

Think about the word, "wet" and take the best you can afford to keep it away from your gear....mud, rain, fog, hands, slipping/falling....
Spend the necessary $$$ to protect your gear. The whole state is wet, very wet.

Hard to believe a company would release a camera that didn't default to, "No Card In Slot".

gwilliams6:
Pretty damn funny. I just came back from Europe, lugging my big, superb Canon, and yet found myself
Bookmarking your Sony instruction sites... Am I telling myself something I don't want to hear?

On my computer it looks very soft as opposed to sharp. Color is nice, though..
I was expecting something quite different, you know, Hasselblad fame.
This is just an opinion...I thank the poster for
the effort...I'm not saying, "Nah-nah-nah-nah"..I'm just surprised.

Size Difference? Is there really a size difference that matters between a cropped camera and a full frame? Don't you have to lug either..wishing they were the size
of a cell phone? Don't you have to have a few extra lenses, and some other peripheral gear in a bag? "YES!" to most.... So, get the full frame.

OK Thanks...I missed it...

The sensor size of the Hassy 1XD-50c is roughly 4.4x3.3 cm..but your saying the sensor is 6x4.5 cm?? Or are
you talking about the size of the image at the focal point? Obviously, I'm, confused..Thanks... Rod

So what was, Rod?

Well, Canon F1n. However, that camera, and the AE1 and lots of others were not well weatherproofed,
that's why I owned so many of them, and ended up trying to by the least expensive....in my experience, the lenses were ok...
the bodies.....no.....I read where the modern digital cameras are pretty good...and I have owned a Canon EOS 5D (has no video) for years now..still good.
I remember 35mm Nikon fellas shooting at the beach bitching about weatherproofing also, so it wasn't just Canon....Both companies now tout some of their digital
models as being very weatherproof....good if true. This is a problem only if you are a waterman or general explorer I believe...I just
cant stay away from the water...salt water..Baggies/towels/hair driers/desiccating tablets....naw..not with the old 35s..

Canon Pellix. Nothing to break! Mine was with a 50mm f1.2 lens.
A real trail breaker that didn't break any trails because it was a
bad idea, but was at least an attempt at addressing the mirror problems of the time...was also
very quiet. f1.2 WAS trail breaker at that time..It probably wasn't real good
wide open, but Canon was ahead of the game ..good marketing skills. They
sold a lot of that lens, and the following f1.4, which was a comparative
nice lens, also a market leader.

No, I'm not serious that it was the best 35mm I ever owned...but the one
I think about when I think of older 35mm cameras.