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Going with an ultra-light gear configuration

Going with an ultra-light gear configuration

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Going with an ultra-light gear configuration

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I really love shooting with a full frame camera. For years now, I've been using the Canon 5D series. I really like the extra shallow depth of field I can get with the bigger sensor. I like the huge assortment of lenses that are available. The image quality's spectacular. And, I really like that focal lengths are what I grew up knowing, 50 millimeter means a normal lens, but boy, I don't like carrying the thing around, especially when I add a couple lenses to it. It gets really, really heavy and leads to a lot of neck and shoulder pain, and it makes me sometimes not take my camera. Hi, I'm Ben Long and this week on the Practicing Photographer we're going to talk about going ultra light with your camera gear. I'm on a motorcycle trip right now. I have very limited storage. I don't have room to carry a lot of things. But also, I'm wanting to do a lot of camping and hiking. I don't want to carry a big camera kit. So I've stripped down to…

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