Our photo & video equipment
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Whether you’re an amateur photographer or a passionate videographer, capturing the memorable moments of your journey is essential to immortalizing your memories and sharing your experiences with the world. In this article, we will guide you through our choice of equipment and our personal recommendations for essential road trip photo equipment!
Photo & Video
The Sony Alpha7III is the camera behind the pictures in our books! After many years with a Nikon D5300 reflex, we finally decided to buy a Sony full-frame hybrid. The perfect box for developing our video practice! This camera meets all our needs: lightness, versatility, tropicalized body, powerful autofocus, etc.
Objectives
Sony ZEISS 55mm F1.8 The ideal lens for portraiture and reportage: wide aperture, superb bokeh.
Tamron 28-75mm F2.8 The perfect transtandard for travel, though it’s a shame it doesn’t go down to 24mm. Voted best standard zoom lens for hybrids 2018-2019, it has the advantage of being tropicalized.
Tamron 75-180mm F2.8 No more frustration at not being able to photograph the animals or the horseman spotted in the distance on the Kyrgyz plains. Lightweight and tropicalized, this is THE zoom we needed to travel!
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Filter: the HOYA PRO1 UV for everyday use and to protect the lens from scratches. And for very sunny days and sea outings, HOYA’s Pro1D polarizing filter works very well.
Extra battery: the LOOKit pack contains 2 batteries (850mAh) and a practical double charger! Inexpensive.
Tripod: the Ravelli 127cm aluminum tripod is very light indeed, and was my top priority when choosing a purchase. Ideal for keeping your travel clutter-free.
Memory card: 2 SANDISK cards – 128 GO class 10, U3, V30 This SD card is fast and works perfectly with the GX80, especially in 4K video.
Stabilizer: Ronin-S
DJI Ronin S
DJI Ronin S: This is the essential accessory for improving your video skills. Some features, such as Time Lapse in motion, are really interesting!
Drone: DJI Mavic PRO 2
DJI Mavic Pro 2
Compared to its predecessor, the DJI Mavic Pro 2 offers superb image quality thanks to its one-inch sensor! For us, aerial photos are an integral part of this type of journey into wide-open spaces.
We chose to take it with the combo pack and DJI care insurance to get the most out of this little toy! You can find images of this drone in our latest video HERE.
Combo Pack: MAVIC 2 PRO
Micro SD: SANDISK – 128 GB Extreme. The high speed of this card means you can use all the features of the Mavic 2 pro without any problems!
Insurance: DJI Care refresh
Storage & Batteries
External SSD
We equipped ourselves with a 1TB SSD external hard drive from SanDisk. In the field, this tiny hard drive really comes into its own! It works just as well on a Mac as on Windows. Transfer speeds are very high and, above all, it is very robust. I repeat, it’s really very small, it fits in the palm of my hand! This is THE all-terrain hard disk of excellence!
External battery 26800
A must-have for any road-trip. We recommend you have one or two! The RAVPower battery recharges up to 3 devices at a time, and has a huge capacity! After several tests of external batteries, this one has a very interesting size/capacity ratio! A USB C version is also available.
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