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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-30-2017, 06:16 PM
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Yep - and for truly beautiful places like the backwoods of Norway I could see taking the K-S2 and a single UWA - that place was made for landscapes and starry nights. For cities and whatnot, I'm going to try out a super-zoom and see if it saves me a lot of hassle and stress about expensive stuff getting broken or mugged. I'll have to pick something by Spring when I go to San Fran. Hopefully there will be a bunch of prior-year stuff on clearance by then.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-30-2017, 05:51 PM
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I'm one of those wacky "ultralight backpackers" and also a "one-bag traveller" so for years now I've been conditioning myself to get by with less. For example I agonized over the additional 14oz of point-and-shoot weight a hauled into Death Valley. So while the K-S2 is pretty light with an 18-135 for being a DSLR, it's not all that light in general. Start adding on additional batteries (to save having to bring the wall-wart), a fisheye or UWA, something fast enough for night use etc etc and suddenly you're 4 pounds heavier at least. Add to that the mental anguish of TSA manhandling my stuff and I think for most trips I'm going to have to compromise and use a cheaper superzoom of some sort.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-30-2017, 04:36 PM
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Thanks. Posted a reply there. Still need to find something better than my Lumix DMC-TS6 to travel with. Wanted to chuck that point-and-shoot out the window after getting used to my K-S2 :)
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-30-2017, 11:58 AM
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I feel like "superb low light" might be a stretch, due to the sensor size. I think they are saying it because it's a constant f2.8, but it's on a 1/2.3-inch sensor.
All that said, it seems like it takes pretty decent night shots for the sensor size: Search: night | Flickr |
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-30-2017, 11:46 AM
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I appreciate the reply, but between the extra volume and weight of a full DSLR putting me over my self-imposed "One Bag" traveling style, there have been a lot of recent horror stories about TSA taking DSLRs apart and damaging them, forcing people to put one electronic item loose in each xray bin, etc - I'm just never going to go through the trouble to carry a complete DSLR setup.
I think I'm going to try to hold off for a bit in case anything new comes out that is 1" sensor or larger *and* is weather resistant.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-30-2017, 06:41 AM
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Thanks for the reply, but I've already ruled out the extra trouble of travelling by air with full DSLR components. I'm far to used to travelling with just a single 30L backpack that I carry on at this point to go back to multiple bags and multiple extra pounds of gear. Even the 1.5LB of a faux-DSLR with a single built-in superzoom lens is going to be pushing it. At this point I kind of wish they had just made a GR or an RX100 with more zoom and some weather resistance.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-30-2017, 05:05 AM
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Hi Folks,
I'm in love with my new-to-me K-S2, but there is no way I'm going to travel (domestic air travel, international air travel, etc) with ~50oz of camera, glass, chargers etc. Aside from the weight and wanting to be able to continue travelling carry-on-only, I'd be bummed if my primary photog setup was damaged or stolen.
Because of these concerns, I'm looking for a secondary camera that still takes great photos for travel, and also to just keep in my commuter backpack that goes into the city with me daily.
If I hadn't seen a friend get exactly 1 adventure day out of his Sony RX100, and read many other similar horror stories (condensation kills, sand, mist, etc) - I'd probably just try to get any old 1"-sensor super zoom. But since I am often in rainy, misty, dusty areas I think I need to have something about as weather proof as my S2 to feel safe taking it everywhere.
I also shoot primarily in low light, walking around after dark in cities, during sunrises etc.
Given my needs, I'm leaning toward a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ300K because of the weather resistance, micro-usb charge on the go, and constant 2.8 aperture. Unfortunately it only has a 1/2.3" MOS sensor and I'm worried that regardless of the good glass and big f2.8 aperture, it's going to take not-great night shots.
LUMIX FZ300 4K 24X F2.8 Long Zoom Digital Camera - DMC-FZ300K - Panasonic US
Anyone else have similarly priced counter-recommendations for weatherproof 1" or APS-C super-zooms?
Thanks!
PS: Flickr shots taken with the Fz300: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/fz300 |
