What is your lightweight SLR travel kit?

"THO" a écrit dans le message de
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I'm finding that I don't carry my SLR as much as I should because of the
weight. I'm curious - what are others carrying for a lightweight travel
kit and what do you consider an optimum lightweight setup? I would use
this kit while traveling as a tourist and while hiking.

This year I did a 600 Km bicycle trip with a Canon 30D along with a 28mm
f1.8 and a 70-200 f4L, I only used the 28mm lens. I did another bicycle
trip (1000 Km) but this time took only a 17-40 f4L it was all I needed. To
say it is light is not quite right, but for utmost quality it's way better
than my G6. Oh, I also only took one spare battery, no charger and a single
4Gb CF card shooting RAW.

Jean

"jean" writes:
This year I did a 600 Km bicycle trip with a Canon 30D along with a 28mm
f1.8 and a 70-200 f4L, I only used the 28mm lens. I did another bicycle
trip (1000 Km) but this time took only a 17-40 f4L it was all I needed. To
say it is light is not quite right, but for utmost quality it's way better
than my G6.

Did the 30D's extra features compared with the lighter Rebel XT do you
any good?

"Paul Rubin" a écrit dans le message de
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"jean" writes:
This year I did a 600 Km bicycle trip with a Canon 30D along with a 28mm
f1.8 and a 70-200 f4L, I only used the 28mm lens. I did another bicycle
trip (1000 Km) but this time took only a 17-40 f4L it was all I needed.
To
say it is light is not quite right, but for utmost quality it's way
better
than my G6.

Did the 30D's extra features compared with the lighter Rebel XT do you
any good?

No, a RebelXT would have been lighter, in fact, a Rebel and a 28mm f1.8
would be OK for about 90% of the time, the rest like wider shots could very
well be made up of 2 or 3 shots stitched together as for the need of a
telephoto while travelling, it is needed very seldom (for me) unless I want
to fill a frame with some detail.

Jean