This is a generic photography tour packing list.
Please adjust your clothing to suit the local expected weather conditions.
Photography tour packing list
This is a packing list. Not what you should bring. Use this list and modify it to your own needs. Make sure you adjust for local conditions such as heat, sun protection, cold or wet.
Wearing on the plane
- Walking boots / solid ankle support shoes
- Dress weight jeans
- Dress shirt
- Wind stopper jacket
- Socks & underwear
Carry on luggage
- Wallet
- Air ticket
- Camera bag
- Camera + spare camera
- All batteries
- Lenses
- Camera memory
- Lap top with Lightroom installed (photoshop & silver efx)
- Hard drive 1
- Note book & pen
- Phone
- Reading glasses
- Sun glasses
- Medications (all likely and regularly used medications that I personally use)
- Reading material
Camera pack
- F stop Loka camera pack
- Pea less emergency whistle
- Ultra light head torch (Petzel Tikka)
- Camera
- Lenses
- Spare memory
- Neutral density filters
- Polarising filter
- Spare batteries
- Lens cleaners (tissues, cleaning fluid & micro fibre cloth)
- Cable release or remote control for camera
- Lens shades
- Reading glasses
- Camera manual (as pdf on tablet or phone)
- Light weight umbrella
- Rain jacket - Gortex or equivalent 3/4 length for wet conditions (replaced with ultra light one for dry trips)
- Over pants - waterproof over pants if wet
- Warm jacket - polarplus or insulated thermal
- Sun hat
- First aid kit & personal medications (asthma puffer, paracetamol, etc)
- Sunglasses
- Sunscreen
- Lip balm
- Insect repellent
- 1 litre water bottle
- One cup thermos
- Ultra light weight carbon fibre walking pole
- Comfortable day pack
- Waterproof lining - silnylon dry bags
- Clip lock plastic bags
- Map and compass
Luggage
- Duffel bag on wheels
- Tripod in tripod bag (quick release & plates on cameras)
- Spare camera
- Battery chargers for camera
- Power cord for laptop
- Charger for tablet
- Power board and local power adapter
- 2nd hard drive and cables
- Card reader (if not included in lap top)
- Light weight dress or dry shoes
- Socks - woollen & nylon blend hiking socks (1 pair per day)
- Gaiters if wet or muddy
- Underwear
- Outdoor / travel quick dry pants
- Woollen / thermal short sleeve and long sleeve tops (Icebreaker)
- Down jacket (lightweight or heavy weight depending on the location)
- Long sleeved sun shirts (outdoor or travel)
- Travel dress shirts
- Toiletries - toothbrush, hair brush, tooth paste, etc.
- Pyjamas / night clothes
- Back support & specific medical necessities
- Spare glasses
- Garbage bags for weather sealing clothing and equipment
- Back support & compression brace for back support
Medical Supplies
- Stomach cramp medication (Buscopan)
- Diarrhea medication (Diastop)
- Antacids
- Anti Inflammatories (Nurofen)
- Panadol
- Antihistimines
- Antiseptic cream
- Bandaids & tape
- Bandage & antistick dressings
Digital camera specifics*
- Olympus OMD EM-1 Mk 2
- 14mm f2.8 Panasonic (28mm equivalent)
- 25 mm f1.2 Pro Olympus (50mm equivalent)
- 75mm f1.8 Olympus telephoto lens (150mm equivalent)
- 300mm f4.0 Olympus telephoto lens (600mm equivalent)
- 1.4 x extender Olympus
- macro extension tubes for Olympus
- Olympus spare batteries for OMD
- Lots of 32 gb Scan disk Extreme Pro memory cards
- Olympus battery charger for OMD
- Card reader and cable
- BW circular polariser
- BW 10 stop neutral density filter
- BW 6 stop neutral density filter
- BW 3 stop neutral density filter
- BW macro filters
- Fuji GFX 50s camera
- 63mm f4.0 Fujinon Lens (50mm equivalent)
- Kodak lens tissues
- Lens cleaning fluid
- Micro fibre lens cloths
- 2 x Lacie external hard drives
- Macbook pro 13" retina display notebook
- Macbook pro power cable
- Phone charger
* this is what Len carries on most trips. This is often reduced depending on the location.
Tripod and camera supports
- Really right stuff camera plates & L plates for all cameras
- Gitzo carbon fibre tripod
- Linhof ball head Provi II & RRS quick release clamp
- Really Right Stuff - Monopod
- RRS Safari clamp, flat surface adaptors & mini ball head
- Really Right Stuff gimbal head