This question goes to all who had blogged on the road.
I intend to do a few months trip and blog it. This requires a good/appropriate camera: info on this I have found on this site. Mostly though it requires a light & rugged computer with easy to edit & connect in various contries. Please give any hints you have! i cannot possibly think of dragging along my present Toshiba laptop: much too heavy and not sure how rugged.
Thank you!
Reply to this I'd recommend the Nikon D40 as a basic digital SLR. If your into photo's a digital SLR is a must.
Reply to this Currently in China and using a Nikon 70S--Digital body, short regular lens--and a MacBook. Heavy and bulky but easy because I have owned them for years. Be prepared to carry them around or stow them safely--they are expensive. The connection really depends on where you are not so much on your computer, just be sure you have all the cords and the right plugs for the outlets for charging everything. There is a brand new PC Notebook for just over $300 which might be adequate--it is very light and the battery lasts all day. My kids just Skyped me about it so I do not have all the details at hand. Good luck.
Reply to this Depending on where you are planning to travel, internet cafes can be found almost anywhere, so if weight/space is an issue, then consider leaving the laptop at home. We traveled through out Africa, and had no problems finding internet cafes, where we were able to update our blog with text and photos.
For camera ideas - the Nikon D40 is a great camera, and only 6mp, so the file sizes won't be enormous and cause issues with insufficient photo storage capacity.
Reply to this i think for the laptop, just go with the cheapest, and most rugged. You don't want a brand new macbook getting scratched and stuff...most laptops will also break down(usually from water damage of some kind), so its easier to replace a cheap, $300 laptop rather than a $2000 mac
Reply to this I travel with my Acer laptop that I paid $800 loaded a few years ago and I have a Sony Cybershot at 7.2 meg with underwater camera housing total cost for camera and housing $550 but I knew that I was not getting the shots that I should so I went and bought a Nikon D90.
I have 2 lens the kit lens 18-105 which in hindsight I might have went with the upgrade to a 18- 200 and a 10-24 lens for shooting hotel rooms and panoramas and I wish that I had traveled with the nice camera from the beginning the difference in the images is amazing. I am looking for a 55 300 for the long wildlife shots.
The main reason that I went with the Nikon d90 is it shoots Hidef Video which you can upload to flickr or youtube and let them store it and you can link on to your blog or website. which also help drive traffic to your blog or website.
On the Acer I have a copy of photoshop which I use to knock everything down to 72 DPI which is all the resolution that will show on a website. Google is looking at page weight as a ranking factor so having large un-cropped heavy images or Vids is going to work against you if you are looking to get organic traffic to visit you.
I also travel with a backup storage hard drive 160 gig that I paid under $100 USD for that I keep in a bag separate from my computer. I run a full scan of my computer for virus's then back up everything onto it when I am moving to a new area or once a month.
I also have a another backup in LA CA that is .5 terrabytes.
all of the stuff together is kind of heavy but way worth having .
Keep all of your stuff in bags that don't say expensive brand names and get yourself a large water proof bag for inside your travel bag that closes tight for accidental water damage avoidance.
I make a little money off my websites so for me having all of the stuff is a worth while investment if I was going out on the road for the first time as a blogger I would go with what you are comfortable with. Minimum a camera and a storage device for images.
A youtube video shot in Bangkok Thailand with D90 and uploaded with a ton of visits.
Bangkok
I love this picture of Barkley at a Aspen hotel just a lucky shot that having a great camera really captured the moment He is even cuter and friendlier than he looks in the picture!
Reply to this we just got an Acer Aspire laptop, 11inches, cost us $700 Cnd, it's the most amazing little machine, more powerful then my old HP (something like 17inches I think).
Camera wise would be Scott's department, he's looking at either the Nikon or a Canon (I think Nikon D80 and a Canon Rebel.. I'm Camera clueless though)
We actually found a bag from kata-bags.com that can hold a camera and an 11 inch laptop. which is perfect!!
we were considering spending something like $200 on a netbook, but the quality of the computer really helped us to decided on the smaller laptop!!
ps. that is an adorable dog ChuckMiser!!
Reply to this Believe it or not I did all my blogging in net cafes for 4 months. And I traveled with a digital SLR (Canon 400D) which I hardly ever used because it was so heavy to carry around. Most of my nicest pictures were taken with a digital happy snapper. I think really it all depends on the quality you're looking for. It did get a bit costly using net cafes though. I've now bought myself an Acer netbook so I can take it with me when I continue my travels.
Reply to this I love my Acer but the next one, which will be soon is going to be a Asus. I was doing some shopping and the difference between a netbook and real computer is very small these days. the Asus has 9.5 hours of battery life thats 3 movies LAX to BKK!
One of the other reason for your own computer is banking a bill paying much more secure on your computer then a strange machine.
hawaii picture that I wish I would have had a Nikon D90 for
Reply to this ASUS EEEPC 1005HA pretty much nails it far as im concerned.
weight 1KG
10 hours battery life! (nothing more dissapointing than a laptop that seems to be always empty on battery just when you need it)
160GB storage
has a network connection and wifi
and cost me 230 euros (november 09) , they are probably even cheaper now.
im definielty no pro when it comes to photography, but personally i have used the canon IXUS range which i carry everywhere in my pocket as i would do a phone when at home. of course not as good as a SLR for quality but maybe the best available for its size, the main advantage is you can bring a tiny camera everywhere and take pictures without standing out too much..ther are places one would not want to take an SLR
one thing about them that is always exceptionally good is the sound recording, which is something that is overlooked in cameras and hardly even mentioned in the specs of any camera. this is one reason why i keep coming back to canon.
Reply to this I have an Acer Aspire One netbook and its fantastic. Very light and easily connects to wireless internet. I had a nikon digital camera, just one i could throw in my pocket and it took some fantastic photos. It no longer lives any more after it fell into my cup of coffee.
RIP Nikon digital camera :-((
Reply to this If that happen again pull it out as fast as you can, and what ever you do don't try to turn it on, and remove the batteries immediately, place in front of a fan with all the opening's open, wait 4 days and see, you might get lucky and save it.
Reply to this I did all that apart from the wait 4 days and see. It was time for a new camera anyway. It took over 10000 photos in 6 months. Not bad for the price i paid for it.
Reply to this If you turn it on the water frys the circuits and then it is dead, if you wait and remove the battery and get it to dry as fast as can there is some hope that it will come back. Salt water allmost allways a gonner. I have seen phones , cameras and computers that were completely drenched revived this way.
Reply to this Its not completely fried but i think because coffee is sticky, it has stuck the lens together so it cant come out of its body.
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