A lot of travelling is seeing. Photography is seeing. Very easy bedfellows indeed. All of the prints around my apartment both big (40") and small (15-20") were taken away from home so there is little point in me owning a compact camera for travel and leaving all the good stuff at home.
Last year all of the following rode in a backpack through Central and South America for almost six months:
Central and South America proved to be a bit hit-and-miss photographically but I should still end up with some good prints and electronic albums out of it once I finish sorting and processing everything in about 2018 or so. The only things that I really felt that I didn't get much use out from the above kit were the two Panasonic 14mm and 20mm pancake lenses; ironically two the of the lightest items. The 14mm isn't especially good, the 20mm hardly got used, and given the choice I'd use the two 20mm and 30mm Samsung pancakes instead most times. Faced with putting together something like this again I'd change the following:
- No m4/3 pancakes as noted (both now sold anyway), which would also lose the screw-in 46mm hood that never came out of the bag (saves about 200g)
- Trade the old netbook for something like a Microsoft Surface (big weight saving, faster and more functional)
- The GH1 would make way for an E-M1 which along with the E-M5 would mean two cameras sharing the same batteries (still take both chargers just in case)
- The Panasonic 14-140mm Mk1 (already sold) would be replaced by a Mk2 (slightly faster aperture, smaller and 200g lighter)
- NX200 becomes the NX300 (because that's what I did!)
- As much as I'd regret doing so, maybe leave the G1X at home (~500g inc extra batteries and charger) to reduce the number of cameras to "only" three. I could achieve the same be deciding between Micro 4/3 and Samsung NX but that is easier said than done.
- Probably wouldn't bother with the camera body caps since there is always a lens attached to any of the interchangeable lens cameras.
Incidentally the photographic portion in the image above (i.e. ignoring computer) was barely heavier than the single Canon 50D and four lenses that I carried on the last decent overseas trip prior to this one, despite the ridiculous levels of redundancy and better capabilities in the mirrorless/compact kit.