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What’s In My Bag – IMG_2473.JPG
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What’s in My bag on a long business+vacation trip.
Taken in and around Sofia Antipolis (Valbonne), France.
Kodak DC4800, one
Image by Lone Primate
Bang, here it is. The DC4800. This was my principal camera for over four and a half years. This photo was taken the day I acquired its successor, a Canon Rebel XT, which was used to take this picture.
I got the DC4800 in February, 2001. It was my first megapixel camera. The image quality was wonderful. It was light, its battery held a long charge, and it connected to the computer via USB, so downloading the images was a lot brisker than it was using the previous cameras — ironic when you consider this camera’s images were over eight times larger that those of the DC40 or DC50. This was the first digital camera I ever had that made me think, yeah, this is a real camera. It’s not a toy, it’s not an experiment… it’s a camera. Sure was: at the time I bought it, it cost me over 0.
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How much does all this weigh?
it weighs too much. way too much. it’s right at the margin of what’s possible to carry without injury or pain.
On the other hand, the checked baggage is also too heavy, but my strategy for a long time has been to carry gadgets (which are too fragile to check, and too annoying if lost) and check clothes (which are easy to replace if lost, and not distressing, since I’m not a fashionista).
I just got a little carried away with too much stuff this time. I should have left behind about half of what is here. I could have left behind two pair of glasses and just brought the two bifocal ones. one paper back book, not two would have been enough. I thought I pared down the cables and stuff, but not as much as I needed to. only one cell phone, not two would have been fine. only one ipod, not two, and then also leaving behind the firewire charger for the older ipod. only one four-port USB power-brick not two. neither of the 5500 mA external USB batteries were necessary, nor the cables for charging them, and the retractable cables for connecting them to stuff. none of the "backup headphones" are needed. There’s about twice as many us-to-european plug adapter gizmos as strictly necessary. the bluetooth headset and it’s special (not micro or mini usb) charger were not strictly necessary. Twice as many spare AA rechargeables as needed for the mouse.
Before the trip, I didn’t know if the eyefi would actually work well while traveling, so I had backup SD cards, and a hub, and SD-USB readers for use with the camera. All of that could have been punted on, and just one SD-USB reader for the eyefi to configure it would have been fine. the nook color (which was brought to watch movies on) turns out to not have been worth the weight, nor the special charger it needs, because playing video on it is too brittle and prone to fail. Since the nook color turned out to be deadweight for movie viewing, I could have left the rest of the micro-sd with video content and all their adapters and little cases, and the other reader in that sub-bag behind too.
About the only things that are correct in count are the extra batteries for the camera, and two chargers to recharge them. On the "worst case" day so far, I got to the end of the day with only one spare fully charged, one in the camera half-discharged, and all the rest drained. I tossed two in the charger(s) at lunchtime, two in before dinner, and two at night – to end up with everything recharged again in the morning.
oh man, I’m relieved to hear you didn’t really need all of that in the end! I kinda cringed in sympathy at you having to carry all this, all the time
I know what that’s like because I used to carry a lot of crap, and at some point I realized I was hauling around so much weight I was really edging toward the carryon limit – on a bag I would use to walk miles carrying! Possibly even carrying some shopping in one hand, even.
The realization came when I was shopping for a new backpack, and having loads of trouble finding something because nothing was big enough in the usual range of school/urban backpacks. Eventually I stuffed everything in one of the bags in the store and the sales clerk brought over a luggage scale, which stabilized at a whopping 8 kg!! I was speechless, and decided then and there to do a thorough paring down. I don’t know where I’ve gotten down to now, but it should be over a third off, or more if I leave out my heavy DSLR. I really don’t miss the extra, can’t even remember what it was! lol
Sally [http://www.flickr.com/photos/9872366@N08] ,
The proof here that the backpack had too much is that the shoulder strap on the backpack started to come unstitched during the trip, and probably would have completely failed (shoulder strap would have come off alltogether) if the trip lasted a day or two more.
As it is, I have already replaced the backpack (with an identical one in a different color that I already had) and throwing that backpack away – it only cost a few dollars and isn’t worth the time and effort to repair.
How does that all fit haha? Impressive though.
Neil, [http://www.flickr.com/photos/62815193@N07]
Well, it fit so tightly that I needed to put a little lock on the zipper toggles to keep them from coming unzipped spontaneously and spilling everything.
Which, before I put the lock on, actually happened once, in the taxi queue in Barcelona.
Good grief! It’s like Mary Poppins.There looks to be a little bit of redundancy there. You’ve got like 10 of everything.
These were funky cameras! This was one of the cameras I was considering before I got my DC290.
I just got the image of my DC4800 uploaded. It is a great camera.
This was my first digital camera. It was a great camera for it’s time. OMG, I just read your description and I also bought it in February 2001!! I paid $949CDN including the taxes and shipping. I feel jipped now!
This camera is a very great camera! This camera makes the heavenly color very uniquely. I’m sometimes using it now.