In our family, if no one takes a picture, it didn’t happen.  So of course we are taking a camera, or two.  The main camera is a Nikon D300.  I’m going to try a single lens for the whole trip, the AF-S Nikkor 18-200M 3.5. I got the lens on sale at Kenmore Camera.  I tried to buy something a little more expensive, but they actually convinced me this lens would be fine for the whole trip.  We’ll see!

Speaking of sales, I got the camera for $100 lower than the best online price I could find.  And got a free printer too.  I think the recession is here…

Storage is on Compact Flash memory;  one SanDisk Extreeme III 16 GB and one 8GB of the same card.  Backup will be to Lenovo laptop (see Part II) as well as to writable DVDs.

For snap shots we’ll also carry a Canon SD400.  And of course we’ll have a bunch of card readers as the Lenovo has not slots for SD or CF.

For the most part we will be posting photos on SmugMug.  We’ll send links as we go.