Hello Everyone! Hope you're having a great week. Me? Pretty well. Hey I was thinking about what I would take on a Street photography trip let's say to New Your City. The Big Apple! I have never been but am looking to go soon so what would I take on let's say a long extended weekend trip. What camera gear or my computing needs for that matter. I know I want to be quick and nimble while in route so just a carry on bag if flying or taking the train. So I would want all of my gear and clothing to fit in the carry on which would be some sort of backpack. Light on gear and clothes. So let's get started with the easy stuff clothes.

If I was going on a 4 day trip to include travel days on each end. I would probably take two pairs of pants the ones I was wearing and one other. And a couple of shirts. These clothes would have to be very packable not jeans or clothes like that. I like to travel with convertible pants that can become shorts at a moments notice and shirts that are super light weight. Just to make things easier well say that this trip is in the spring so cool in the mornings and warm during the day. So I would want some sort of jacket that would compact down to a small size when it warmed up. Just a few personal toiletries to get by with. A comfortable pair of shoes because I'll be doing some walking. I would put all of this in some sort of packing cube that would fit in my backpack.

Now let's talk about camera gear and computing. I'll start with computing because I would keep it simple some sort of iPad maybe my iPad mini. It's small and compact and I'll be able to back up my photo's from each day and even edit some if I need to. Now to camera gear. I have lots of good choices to choose from. If I wanted to keep it super small I could use my point and shoot Canon G7XII . Its small compact, 20mp type 1 sensor and has a 24-100 equivalent lens with maximum aperture of f/1.8-2.8. It's very discrete and small and would go almost unnoticed . But never have been to New York before I would want something a little more punch. I would probably bring my A7C with a 50mm and a 16-35mm lens. Both are small-ish but would definitely be noticed more than the point and shoot. And of course I would have to carry some sort of bag to hold the extra lens and batteries. Or I could carry a 20-70 f4 lens I have and the Sony and just do one lens. It would be a bigger set up but it would have a better camera set up with just one lens. Now if I was really brave I could go with a film camera and shoot film the whole time there. If I were I would bring my Canon Cannonet GIII QL17. This is known as the poor mans Leica with a 40mm f/1.7 lens. It would definitely tic all of the boxes but then its film and won't be as flexible as digital. So what to do? On a special trip like this I could go without a camera and plan a trip to B&H Photo Video and buy a camera for street there. It would almost be worth it maybe something like a Fuji X100 a built to be a street camera. There are so many ways to go. What would you do?

Well since this is all hypothetical I would probably go to B&H and buy a new camera just to say that I had done it. But in reality it would probably be the Sony A7C although I think the smart choice would be the Point and shoot.  Well that's just me dreaming. What would you do? Let me know. Until next week Get out and Shoot!

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