{"id":5503,"date":"2012-06-07T14:36:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T04:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2012-06-07T14:38:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T04:38:56","slug":"my-photo-travel-kit-for-4-weeks-in-uk-and-ireland-olympus-e-m5-and-awesome-lenses-all-under-4-5kg-including-ipad-and-other-goodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=5503","title":{"rendered":"My photo travel kit for 4 weeks in UK and Ireland &#8211; Olympus E-M5 and awesome lenses all under 4.5kg including iPad and other goodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have just finished packing my bags for my 4 week trip to UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>I chose Micro Four Thirds when it first came out because I realised it would be THE camera kit for international travel with its limited airline carry-on luggage weight and size limits.<\/p>\n<p>The awesome Olympus OM-D E-M5 camera is small, light, weatherproof and gives high image quality, shallow DOF when I need it with lovely bokeh from the lenses which are image stabilised meaning I really will not need a big tripod even at night without a flash.<\/p>\n<p>So what did I bring to fit into a normal hiker&#8217;s backpack and have it all weigh in at only 4.5kg?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/equip\/UKTravel2012a.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/equip\/UKTravel2012a.jpg\" alt=\"travel kit\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and with the E-M5, 12mm f\/2.0, 14-42mm kit lens, 45mm f\/1.8, clip on flash and spare battery all fitting easily in a LowePro TopLoad Zoom 1 bag for added protection:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/equip\/UKTravel2012b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/equip\/UKTravel2012b.jpg\" alt=\"travel kit with bag\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 4.5kg consists of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>cheap hiker&#8217;s day backpack<\/li>\n<li>Apple iPad (to back up my photos)<\/li>\n<li>Apple iPhone<\/li>\n<li>Olympus OM-D E-M5 camera<\/li>\n<li>Olympus mZD 12mm f\/2.0 lens<\/li>\n<li>Olympus mZD 14-42mm II lens<\/li>\n<li>Olympus mZD 45mm f\/1.8 lens<\/li>\n<li>Panasonic Leica-D Four Thirds 25mm f\/1.4 lens with MMF-2 adapter<\/li>\n<li>Olympus ZD Four Thirds 50-200mm f\/2.8-3.5 SWD lens with weatherproof MMF-3 adapter and lens case<\/li>\n<li>Panasonic Lumix 14-140mm HD lens (old habits die hard &#8211; I find this nice for walkaround travel shots during daytime when I can&#8217;t be bothered changing prime lenses)<\/li>\n<li>spare SD cards<\/li>\n<li>spare battery<\/li>\n<li>LowePro TopLoader Zoom1 camera bag<\/li>\n<li>travel docs and miscellaneous items<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, I put some cheaper items in checked in luggage which with my Aussie winter clothes and boots for the UK summer came to under 16kg:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>compact travel tripod (in case I need to do shots longer than half a second)<\/li>\n<li>Olympus FL-36R flash (in case I do indoor portraits and available light is not nice)<\/li>\n<li>Rokinon 85mm f\/1.4 manual focus lens with Canon EOS to MFT adapter (well I just couldn&#8217;t leave this one at home!)<\/li>\n<li>Sigma 19mm f\/2.8 Micro Four Thirds lens<\/li>\n<li>ND gradient filters, other filters, battery chargers, iPad SD card adapter, power board, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ONLY other lens which I considered bringing is my lovely Olympus ZD Four Thirds 7-14mm ultra wide angle zoom lens but I would be start to push through the 5kg back pack weight, it was too expensive to put in checked in baggage, and thus I decided this time, I would leave it at home.<\/p>\n<p>I thus have 24mm to 400mm focal length range fully covered with high quality image stabilised lenses (thanks to the E-M5), lovely wide aperture low light lenses and some nice bokeh lenses.<\/p>\n<p>That should be plenty enough to give me fun even in dreary, rainy, dark UK weather.<\/p>\n<p>ps.. apologies for the lousy DOF in these photos, I used my Canon 1D Mark III in low light indoors and had to resort for a wide aperture as I didn&#8217;t have time to get the flash out.<\/p>\n<p>Note that I may not get to post much in the next 4 weeks as the iPad, and as I understand it, rather shaky mobile ineternet in rural UK and Ireland may make posting blogs difficult, plus I will be having too much fun with my E-M5 to actually bother using the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have just finished packing my bags for my 4 week trip to UK and Ireland. I chose Micro Four Thirds when it first came out because I realised it would be THE camera kit for international travel with its limited airline carry-on luggage weight and size limits. The awesome Olympus OM-D E-M5 camera is small, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,3,181],"tags":[18,241,14,156,249],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backpacks-photography","category-photography","category-travel-photography","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-micro-four-thirds","tag-olympus","tag-travel","tag-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}