I guess it is about time to talk about some of the gearhead stuff upon which this blog was partly founded. CANON XH-A1 video camera: It’s been around for a while, and compared to digital still cameras, camcorders (especially at the ‘prosumer’ level, typically have a much longer product lifespan. That combined with the fact [...]
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 [...]
