Packing this one was a kick too. This was the Pelican with the dividers. I was able to fit a pretty crazy complement of multimedia gear in there:
Leica M8 with 15mm CV, 28mm Summicron, 35mm Summilux ASPH, 75mm Summicron, spare battery and charger
Two Pocket Wizard units and two speedlights
HV20 Canon camera with ebay lenshood and [...]
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. These [...]
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 [...]
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 attach [...]
