Like all photographers who have to fly with their equipment I am paranoid about both losing gear when checked as luggage, and on the other hand fighting the often arbitrary and capriciously enforced size and weight restrictions of carry-on. My approach of the past few years is as follows, and it has worked on every flight that I’ve taken including Toronto – Paris – Madagascar – internally in Mada, and then return.

Shooting speed (FPS) is a given. No MF back can do 5 FPS, and none can take stabilized lenses and the like. When it comes to a combination of overall image quality, high ISO capability, shooting convenience, features, frame rates, lens selection and the like, the new 1Ds mark MKIII is going to be a hard act for any medium format back to beat.

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There are blogs about family vacations, cooking, knitting, little dog puppies, cats, hidden sexual fantasies, about photography, art and so much more. Despite the fact that nobody could ever possibly read all the blogs out there due to the sheer tremendous number of thousands and thousands of blogs, most of the time it wouldn’t be worth it anyway. Frankly but at the same time nicely put: Most blogs are not very interesting at all. At least not if you are not the author or a close friend of the author.

But of course there are many, many exceptions to this as well. There are a whole bunch of blogs that are worth reading, that you can learn from, that can inspire you and broaden your horizon.

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