GH1 - Micro Four Thirds the ultimate travel camera ?
03 January, 2011
My experiences with the Panasonic GH1 on a 18 day trip to Uganda, Tanzania
Elephant in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Olympus 70-300mm, F5.4, 1/800. Colours messed with in Aperture
As soon as we started travelling I started realising the huge advantage over traditional DSLRs. I had the equivalent focal range of 28-600mm in one bag for not a heck of a lot of money. To put that into perspective, to buy one lens capable of 600mm you're looking at 5k plus on a single lens and they are HUGE! (eg ... weighing 5kg). Even going back to 500mm, we're still generally talking 1-2kg for a lens. When you're bumping around in tiny planes, safari vehicles, have ridiculous weight limits (15kg for 3 weeks), every few hundred grams counts, and if one lens cost that much money well the paranoia factor would be off the charts. I get pro photographers who do it for a living need that gear, but when 99.99% of everyones photos land up on the web, the law of diminishing returns kicks in. My bag with everything in bar the monopod and mic, would fit under an economy airline seat, and I could get my feet in as well !
