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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:43:35 +0000

At the start of 2011, my wife and I decided to finally pursue our dream of travelling - we sold our home, she quit her job, and we hopped on a plane with just our backpacks. After spending one year traveling the world in the past two years, I'm excited to finally share a short visual preview of our travels:

https://vimeo.com/64778017

If anyone has any comments in regards to gear or traveling with gear, I'd love to share some of my experiences with it.

Gear Notes ///

All footage was shot either on a Canon 5D Mark2, 60D or Canon S95 (for underwater footage). Lens choice consisted of: 70-200L 2.8 IS, 24L 1.4, 28 1.8, 16-35L 2.8, 135L 2.0, 45TSE 2.8.

The Canon S95 was housed in a Recsea.com housing with a Dyron 16mm fisheye lens. No external videos lights were used, but I did have a ultralight arm set with a SeaAndSea.com YS-01 strobe (the ultralight arm set helped with camera control for video).

Support gear consisted of a Glidecam 1000HD, Manfrotto 776Y Compact Monopod, Joby Gorillapod Focus with Ballhead X, and a homebrew DIY Slider - I didn't always travel with all of these items but rather chose a couple pieces for each trip (usually 2-4 months at a time).

Backpacks. I'm a bit of a backpack collector, I've taken 3 different backpacks on my trips, trying to find the perfect one. The first two trips I used a Tamrac Evolution 8, second trip was a Lowepro Vertex AW 300, and finally for my last trip (the bag I was always on the lookout for) a fstopgear.com Loka.

Edit Notes ///

In conjunction with my ASUS laptop, we each carried a 1TB external HDD on us for safety, so I always had three copies of any data, in the case something got lost or stolen.

I had to search through over 3TB of footage to compile this trailer together. It took a while.

Edited in Adobe Premier Pro CS6
http://www.amishsolanki.com

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Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:33:17 +0000

Wow, that's a really impressive video, thanks for sharing.

I'm about to head out on a RTW trip, and am deliberating whether or not to take my SLR. Obiously for you it was central to your experience, but did you find all your gear a burden and a worry? Did it hold you back at times, or could you easily compromise on the hassle to get the results?

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Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:02:25 +0000

Thanks for your comment!

To be honest, I stopped worrying about my gear after a while. If your constantly worried about it, then you won't enjoy your trip. I did however make sure to take days where I never touched my gear, and just witnessed things with my two other cameras (eyes!). This to me was HUGE during the travel. Was there times where I wished I had my camera (oh yes!), but sometimes the memories from those times are the best for sharing with words, rather than images.

There were certainly times where I thought 'why the heck am I carrying a glidecam with a 5d up this 500m incline) during the Everest Base camp trek, but as you'll see in some of the footage, it was now totally worth it.

So there are +/- to it. Finding the right balance when to use it, and when not to is key.

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