Over on Luminous Landscape, Nathan Myhrvold, award winning photographer, former Chief Technical Officer at Microsoft and co-founder of Intellectual Ventures, offers a long, informative article called Digital Safari Equipment Tips. If you’re planning on going on a safari in Africa or even if you’re not, it’d be worth taking the time to have a read of this essay. Nathan details some of the essentials a photographer needs to know before embarking on a safari in Africa. A lot of the information given is equally useful for any photographer who travels or spends time in the field.

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Covered in the essay is a lot of information about camera supports, from bean bags through to tripods. As well, he looks at the different vehicles used in safaris, camera, lens and computer cases, camera bodies, lenses, flash, downloading and storing photos, GPS/geo-tagging,  power and batteries and rounds it off with a look at cleaning options followed by an equipment table summarizing all the gear he uses listed as both Canon and Nikon varieties.
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