Usual Dilemma

Off to Brazil very very soon and again like next week and the age old question what to take crops up.

I don't know 8 plane flights in a month and my internal clock has gone haywire.

Need one lens for a family Christening and another for the famous waterfalls
(don't ask me the name of them) we are flying to see whilst there. Ok decision-the 70-300mm VR lens with UV filter and the 24-120mm with UV filter as a walk about lens ( my favourite lens)

As for cameras this time looks as if it will be the Nikon D300 as my son is thinking about getting a Nikon DSLR, and for the price on the used market the build qquality far outstrips these latest models. No way would I part from mine even as a backup camera. Knowing my son he will still pick one from the bottom of the range like the D3200.



For video work it is again my Panasonic HC-X900M against taking the D800 to give it a rest from the med cruise we have just done.

So If I don't post for a time you know why

bye the bye

I am finding the D300 a lot more forgiving taking pictures than the D800 which you do really have to concentrate with to be spot on. The D800 is truly an out and out pro camera and to be honest I would not recommend it as a first buy, you do have to have some idea on Nikon cameras first

I don't know, such arduous decisions. Enjoy your trip, no doubt whilst out there you will pass comment to the effect of, " I wish I'd brought so and so along........................."

just got back from Brazil, also went into Argentina and Paraguary. will put up photos later on when sorted them out,

Great stuff Bazza, I hope you had a wonderful trip and look forward to seeing some of your photographs of the trip.

First view of water falls in Brazil/ argentina border


Dam 3rd largest hydro-electric brazil/paraguay border





sluice gate run off








To give some idea of size



From top of sluice gates looking down river

Taken in a typical Sicilian courtyard. It takes up to 5 years to learn how to play these under a masters instructions

Ok where have I been
Italy-Sicily-Sardinia-Greece-Majorca- Changed at skipoll airport Holland (Pompeii- Mount Etna and vesuvius)-Spain- Brazil-Argintina-Paraguay

No pics taken in Argintina or Paraguay due to possible problems crossing border and having cameras seized


IGUACA FALLS





From Brazil side, other side is Argentina

COATI AT PLAY (NO SOUND)


These and more were around an outside food hall in Brazil

Pompeii bodies from 79AD




Lava flow two weeks before we got there or we wouldn't be allowed this far up Mt Vesuvius



Crater ( there are 127 of them)






Our cruise ship 12 stories high






Caves of Drac (Majorca)


A main street in pompeii

Original Paraguary people