Been spending some quality time with our Pelican bags, trying to configure the kits to make sure that everything crucial gets to Nepal in one piece, and that we can carry all the really key stuff on the planes with us. To that end, I’ve been configuring our two Pelican 1510 carry-on sized roller bags. [...]
Canon USA’s Professional Services division also stepped up to honor Serious Customer Service, when I called yesterday to find out status on a body and lens we’d sent in for repair. For whatever reason, these hadn’t been initiated, even though I’d authorized the repair (and emailed a PDF of our warranty cards so they knew [...]
We are officially four days behind our schedule for getting our gear into bags and ourselves ready to carry it all to Nepal. If we were just going trekking, or just going to Kathmandu to make a documentary, we’d be better off. But the double-whammy of doing both of these things interrelatedly is really kind [...]
First big task of the packing-packing (the part where I’m actually moving stuff into containers, rather than just thinking about it): Assembling and labeling all the various power devices. We’ve got a solar panel, about six different kinds of batteries, about nine different kinds of chargers/adapters, and an alarmingly wide variety of cables that either [...]
We’re in the initial stages of the final phases of putting our kit together. Today I’ll be fitting the cameras into cases and figuring out what goes where and how it’ll get there. We will need to configure three basic kits: Travel: How We Get All The Stuff Over There Trek: What We Carry On [...]
