Finding the perfect travel tripod seems to be an elusive task. After traveling for more than 15 years and doing (amateur) travel photography for about 10 of those years, I have tried many tripod options. From the cheapest that can be bought online to carbon fiber and magnesium alloy options. I’ve come to the conclusion there isn’t really _ the best_ travel tripod. It depends on your personal requirements and what you are willing to compromise....
Quarks rating explanation here. Hardware Design Rating: 8.5/10 True to Voigtlander’s fashion, design is elegant and functional. Every single hardware feature is there for a reason, and it’s adequately located: the aperture ring is placed towards the front, well separated from the focusing ring, which makes it really easy to operate without looking, just by positioning your fingers on the right place. This lens is one of the three that Voigtlander has made available for Sony’s FE mount so far....
It’s been a while since the last time I wrote about travel photography gear. Since then, my setup has changed a lot. In fact, I tried out a couple of configurations before settling for this one, which is the one I’ve used in the last few months. Please, keep in mind that, although I’ve sold a couple of my photos, I’m just an amateur photographer. I do this out of love for the art form and the peace I find when going out taking pictures on my own....
Background Information This is Part II of a series of posts on backing up photos while traveling using a Raspberry Pi and an iPad Pro. In Part I, we covered how to set up both the Raspberry Pi and the iPad to be able to establish a secure (i.e. SSH) connection between them and manually run a script to copy photos from an SD card to a thumb drive (both connected to the Raspberry Pi’s USB ports)....
As mentioned before, I like to travel light and I backup my photos to a high capacity and tiny USB drive. However, from time to time, I might bring along a portable 1 TB hard drive like this one, just to have some extra capacity available. The Raspberry Pi series 3 doesn’t have USB ports powerful enough to feed a hard drive, not even a portable one. The exception to that would be a small portable hard drive released by Western Digital some time ago, but it’s not easy to find and only comes in 314 GB capacity....