Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Xmas is close, very close. Wouldn?t it be high time for Tom to finally get his own SL body? He?s been dreaming of one for so long ... ;-) Against the cold, I don?t see many solutions but the onion technique. I sometimes even wear silk gloves under my ski gloves ? makes it difficult to feel the shutter release button though. I?ll ask a friend who made the trip with his nikons, and report when he?s anwered to me. Till then Amities Philippe > Le 11 d?c. 2017 ? 23:26, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> a ?crit : > > PESO: > > One of the items on our bucket list is to see and photograph the Northern > Lights. We have planned a 25 day trip through Norway and Sweden beginning > January 24 until February 17. It is going to be cold and dark. We will > stay in a cabin on an island some of the time, but there are a lot of > transfers from boat to bus to train all along the way. > > In a nutshell, we need to travel with as little luggage as possible. Right > now, I plan to just carry my SL with the two SL lenses that I have 24-90 > and 50/1.4. I have the M to L converter and a couple of M lenses and the R > to L converter and couple of R lenses. Battery charger, batteries, power > pack, memory cards, tiny netbook, downloader, external hard drives, cables, > converters, power plugs. That should all fit in my Lowepro backpack and an > M Classic satchel. > > Clothes will be long underwear, jeans, turtlenecks, down coats, boots, > gloves, hats, thermal socks - all fitting in one roll-on bag. Small > travel-sized tubes of toothpaste, soaps, etc. > > I've made my list and checked it more than twice. Am I forgetting > anything? Have you photographed the Northern Lights? Any recommendations? > > TIA > > Tina > > -- > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > tina-manley.artistwebsites.com > http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information