The fundamental criteria for both trips was that the equipment had to fit the size constraints of aeroplane carry on luggage & be personally carried by me the whole time.
Equipment for the 1998 trip to Nepal comprised:
Linhof 617SIII with Schneider 72m lens + center grey & polarizing filters
Miller 20 fluid head carbon fiber tripod
About 36 x 120 rolls of Kodak Ektachrome 64 ASA slide film
Minolta light meter
Hand Held GPS, 2 miniature Silva compasses
Various accessories - Electronic Flash, red laser pointer, binoculars, water proof bags, spirit level, maps & notebook
Equipment for the 2011 trip to the USA comprise:
Nikon D200 with Red Hen Systems Blue2Can bluetooth GPS geotagger
Tamron 18 to 250mm zoom lens
LTI Truepulse 360B bluetooth Laser rangefinder with digital compass
Apple 13" Mac Book Air laptop computer
Motorola Xoom Tablet
Samsung Galaxy S2 cell phone
Google Nexus S cell phone
Google Nexus One cell phone
LG G2X cell phone
3 x Bluetooth GPS devices
Imageotag Android Camera Software & other (in development) intervalometry software.
Accessories included numerous digital memory cards, usb cables, power and charging cables, batteries & notebook.
The fundamental differences between trips was the shift from single analog large format photographic film camera & single GPS device to multiple digital cameras varying from 10 down to 5 mega pixels, 8 GPS devices, 6 3D digital compasses & 6 portable computer devices (!) plus a laser that measured instead of just pointing.
I'd estimate the weight of each set of equipment to be essentially the same, both were heavy at over 40 pounds. For the Nepal trip I had to find a long rucksack style bag to fit the tripod & then to argue to get this accepted as carry on flight luggage more than once. For the USA trip I was carried an ordinary day pack style bag.
Tomorrow an explanation of the purpose & use of the equipment.
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