Howdy folks,
So now that I finally have my hands on the new housing and strobes I have a few questions about travel. I should mention that I've read through several similar threads, in fact the soft sided cooler/personal dunk tank that I'll be using as a carry on came from one of them.
I've done quit a bit of dive travel, and have usually checked everything but regs and computer. However, my current plan is to back as much as I can/makes sense into the soft sided cooler posted above. This will most likely include housing, camera (Nikon D7000), pair of strobes (YS-D1), Sola 1200 focus light, arms, and Zen 100 mini dome for tokina 10-17. At some point I'll add macro port and lenses to the mix but it might be a few trips away. In addition my gut is to carry on camera chargers, power strips etc, to ensure they make it. I'm just curios how this relates to what most other SLR folks are lugging for LONG international trips. Also, when traveling do you typically mount ports for transports or carry them separately? I noticed for my Nauticam housing the recommend NOT transporting the camera in the housing during travel, which means double the space. I certainly don't want to risk damaging anything, but if I truly need to back the camera, housing, and dome all detached in the same bag it's going to fill up quickly.
Just looking for a sanity check here. Any other relevant tips you can share would be appreciated.
-E
So now that I finally have my hands on the new housing and strobes I have a few questions about travel. I should mention that I've read through several similar threads, in fact the soft sided cooler/personal dunk tank that I'll be using as a carry on came from one of them.
I've done quit a bit of dive travel, and have usually checked everything but regs and computer. However, my current plan is to back as much as I can/makes sense into the soft sided cooler posted above. This will most likely include housing, camera (Nikon D7000), pair of strobes (YS-D1), Sola 1200 focus light, arms, and Zen 100 mini dome for tokina 10-17. At some point I'll add macro port and lenses to the mix but it might be a few trips away. In addition my gut is to carry on camera chargers, power strips etc, to ensure they make it. I'm just curios how this relates to what most other SLR folks are lugging for LONG international trips. Also, when traveling do you typically mount ports for transports or carry them separately? I noticed for my Nauticam housing the recommend NOT transporting the camera in the housing during travel, which means double the space. I certainly don't want to risk damaging anything, but if I truly need to back the camera, housing, and dome all detached in the same bag it's going to fill up quickly.
Just looking for a sanity check here. Any other relevant tips you can share would be appreciated.
-E