[Leica] What would you take to Peru?

[rcmphoto at yahoo.com (R. Clayton McKee)]

High UV filters.? You get up in the Andes and unless you're a TREMENDOUS fan 
of blue chromes.... You're going to want them.? 

?
R. Clayton McKee
PhotoJournalist
from somewhere just south of somewhere else...


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> From: Dante Stella <dstella1 at ameritech.net>
>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> 
>Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 9:43 PM
>Subject: [Leica] What would you take to Peru?
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>Since this is sometimes a place for abstraction, I'll pose a hypothetical.
>
>Assume that you are a male in good physical conditioning.? If you are going 
>traipsing around in the mountains and among ruins in Peru, what would you 
>take?? I'm headed out next week.? Usually, no matter where I go, I take a 
>Fuji GA645, 20 rolls of 120 film (for b/w), and some small camera for 
>color.? Sometimes a 6x9 Fuji instead of the "little" Fuji.? I've been 
>pretty good at making it work, as Tim Gunn would say.
>
>Aside from Macchu Picchu, I think I can improvise with about anything.? But 
>up on the mountain (a place where I probably will never return), what are 
>the conditions like? Any weird-color light that screws with exposure meters 
>(like in the desert)?? Any particular filtration?? Were I to deviate from 
>my normal packing, there would be a lot of choices (these are the 
>*realistic* ones...)
>
>Fuji GA645 (=35mm)
>- small, light, flawless
>
>Fuji GL690 (with 50, 100 and/or 180mm lenses)
>- heavy as hell, but the 50mm has eye-burning resolution 
>- wants a separate meter
>- would require 40 rolls of film
>
>X100 (=35mm)
>- very lightweight, some ability to use grad NDs
>
>D700 (I can cover anything from 17 to 300mm)
>- heavy, fast, able to shoot in any light.? Great for ND grads
>
>Leica M8 (21 to 90mm)
>- Not bad for all purposes, but a little heavy
>
>Nex-5 (16mm or 18-55 lenses).
>- kills the X100 in shooting speed. Not bad at taking pictures, either. 
>Excels at HD video.
>- somewhere, in a drawer, I have the superwide lens adapter
>
>Neither film nor batteries nor supplies are really an issue. If I took a 
>GL690, I would grab a cheaper 50mm (=21mm) finder than my Universal 
>Wideangle Finder M, but other than that, this will be off the shelf.? I 
>would not take two heavy cameras, but aside from that, the sky is the 
>limit. As I would imagine at 10,000 feet.
>
>Ideas?? I usually go on gut instinct the day before, but I do like to hear 
>different perspectives.
>
>Thanks
>Dante
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