Hello all! I am off travelling round Central America this summer for 5 weeks, so naturally I am thinking there are going to be some damn good photo oppurntunities. So I want to bring my camera and stuff, but at the same time I am going to be living out of a backpack with limited space, and I am seriously wussy about carrying weight. So I have decided already that the tripod is out. Not that it is all that heavy, but its bulky and to get good use out of it, I'd have to carry it most places which I am just not prepared to do.

So far I am thinking:

-One of my canon EOS 300 film cameras (I have several) cause my other film cameras are either less versitile, heavier or cost more than £45 so I don't want to lose them.

- Polarising filter (do you think I should bring a UV one as well? I have never really noticed much difference from using a UV filter, but then again I live in the UK and there is never that much UV light).

- Colour film. Here is where I am struggling, because I mostly use black and white and when I use colour, I use very low ISOs like 50 or 100. But I think that using them in really bright sunlight will result in pretty washed out looking colours. Anyone expert on what film speeds are good for tropical conditions?

-Lens wise I think I'll bring just one of the standard pretty small ones, again due to weight and space considerations. But then again, maybe I want the versitility of more of a zoom lens....

Anyhoo, please advise fellow photographers! What should I bring?

Ah so lucky, what a photo mission!
I'm about as far from an expert as you can get but I'd say take a UV filter and just heaps of film. Kodak Portra VC 160 might be good for the bright conditions, take some black and white too though. And you could take a mini tripod(£8 from Jessops) , takes up no space at all and is light as a feather

You should bring extra batteries.

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Good advice! Extra batteries is a v good plan, because I buy the lithium ones ridiculously cheap online but I think they would cost a bomb in some small town in the middle of nowhere.

I want to get good film ideas now so I can buy some in bulk off 7dayshop.com - Online shopping made easy ! (cause I have quite a lot of ISO 100 film at the moment, but its out of date and living in my freezer, so not ideal to travel with...) Buying it off the internet will make it cheap, but then I have to be sure I am buying the right stuff...

Yesss get the Portra! Ross told me to bring that to Israel and the results were amazing.

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