Just a word on Raid mirrored hard drives: I had a set up and the controller failed leading to the drives being unreadable. All data lost. I now have a file server with two single backups for 3 intances of each file.
A few comments. I would make sure that you have one or two backups for your 2 T drive. My personal favorites are crucial 1 T M2 drives (Under $100 now) installed in a a Startech case (about $30) to turn the SSD into a portable USB 3 drive. They are smaller and lighter than your 2T HD by a bunch and much, much faster to upload and download your files.
I would strongly suggest that with travelling all that way at likely significant expense that you keep 2 or three copies of each image. If you take 30 mb raw files, you can fit 33,000 of them on each 1T drive. (FYI, I keep two of them in a hard eyeglass case). Two cautionary tales from my sister. 1, on her way back from Cuba, one of her fellow travelers dropped her HD (only copy of files) at the airport and lost all of her images. 2, My sister had one of her SD cards crump after the Alligator Farm in St Augustine last April and lost hundreds of her images.
I recently had my several year old Think Tank Digital Holster fall off of the belt/harness and my Nikon D850 with 80-400 lens hit the ground in the room. Luckily, it seemed to only have damaged the lens hood which is easily replaceable. Think tank was sympathetic and sent me a new one within a day of receiving the old one. Apparently, they don't last forever and the velcro wears out over time. Makes sense in retrospect, but....
If you have a lens of 4 pounds or less I would enthusiastically recommend an Acratech ball head with built in gimbal. It weighs less than a pound and works great. Also economical.
Warning: If you make any money with photography, you need a "commercial policy" as homeowners' insurance can disallow claims as they don't insure "business" items.
Pretty annoying that you didn't bother to list any pros and cons for either of the two lenses. This seems to be an abuse of the forum.
I'm not clear how MS "supports" machines. They (mostly) keep their software working. What else is there?Both of mine are home built and have had no problems with Windows.
I'm not clear how MS "supports" machines. They (mostly) keep their software working. What else is there?Both of mine are home built and have had no problems with Windows.
Also MS will no longer be supporting W7 after this Dec.
I recently switched from Canon to Nikon. I currently am shooting the Nikon 500 5.6 PF (3.5 pounds vs 7 lbs for my Canon 500 F4), with a Nikon D850 (42 Mpx which seems to me better than a crop frame with fewer pixels) and a D5 for low light. I also have a 24-150, a 12-24, a 105 Micro (what non-Nikon shooters call a Macro) and an 80-400. The learning curve was a bit steep but I am getting there.
If you separately schedule your equipment, it should not affect renewal of your main policy. However, if you make any money with your photography, they can refuse to settle your claim as you should have a "professional" policy and not put on homeonwners.
The 500 PF (prime) is very easy to handhold and also works with a 1.4 extender. The D850 buffer should hold at least 29 frames at full resolution.
Jeff