Holiday camera gear

We came back home after two weeks in Hungary and Romania. It was a holiday after all so we did not pack every possible piece of a camera gear with us. The airline restrictions prevented it.

The main parts of the camera gear were Canon 450D and 550D bodies. For them we had three lenses. EF-S 18-55mm IS kit lens, EF 70-200mm f4 L IS USM and Vivitar M42 35mm f1.9 prime. We also had set of extension tubes, Canon 430EX II flash, radio triggers, YN-460II flash, SLR Zoom GorillaPod, Manfrotto 745XB tripod with 701 RC2 fluid head, batteries, filters, chargers and some random bits and pieces. Most of this was inside or attached to Lowepro Primus AW backpack. Only the camera with 18-55mm lens was in a separate small bag.

So, what was necessary? Most I would say. We did not use extension tubes or YN-460II flash for some reason. Everything else was used and I don't think we were missing anything else except couple more memory cards. I left the tripod in the car trunk quite often but every time we left the car we took all the rest of the camera gear with us.

We had 2x16Gb cards for 550D and 4Gb+8Gb for 450D. Unfortunately that was not enough for RAW photos so we had to switch to JPEG. That has caused some issues in post processing but most of the photos seem to be fine. There is still good amount of material to sort and video to cut... I think I would need another holiday just for that.