What's in your backbacks?

[NiloV]

Show us your backpack's contents!

Here is mine:

• 1st Gen 3G iPad Air: Business pictures, Google Maps editing and Street View management
• Amköv AMK 200s 360 camera: Really cheap, but requires lots of editing, Probably I'll replace it with a Theta S
• 5th Gen iPod touch: I use it as a remote for the Amköv
• Samsung EB-PN915B: 11300 mAh battery pack. Best investment ever.
• Selfie stick for the Amköv
• PhotoSEL ST121 mini tripod: converts the selfie stick in a low-profile tripod

[ManuelS]

I travel much lighter. I make almost all my contributions with my Moto G LTE

[LucioV]

A lot of stuff... will share later today 🙂

[Corrie]

So many extra batteries... 😉

[Mcfleury]

Amköv AMK 200s 360 camera: Really cheap, but requires lots of editing, Probably I'll replace it with a Theta S

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How are you liking this camera?  

Could you go into detail on what kind of editing you do?  

Does it have a resolution high enough for google street view?

Is it durable?

Do the lenses scratch easily?

[NiloV]

How are you liking this camera?  

It's good enough for the price, but I wouldn't recommend it for any serious use

Could you go into detail on what kind of editing you do?

well, for starters this is a sample raw image from the sd card:

The camera comes with a really bad image conversion software. I've made a custom node.js script that extracts the two hemispheres, prepares them with nona and stitches them with enblend. It's not pretty but it works.

Does it have a resolution high enough for google street view?

Kind of, you have to upscale the images a bit during processing

Is it durable? Do the lenses scratch easily?

The cover of the lenses seems to be acrylic. I've had no problems (yet) but it haven't had to withstand any rough use (yet).

It's really hard to keep the lenses clean of fingerprints with such a small camera body.

Bottom line? It's cheap, but the savings don't make for the struggle.

[Mcfleury]

Thank you for such a detailed review, hoping to win the Theta S, but if not ill probably be saving up to buy one.  

I love 360 photography, its too bad that its so pricey to get into.

[LucioV]

Here is my actual backpack for summer 2016

MacBook Pro late 2012, i7, 16 Gb Ram, 750 Gb HD, 500 Gb SSD

64 Gb additional ultrafit USB disk Sandisk

Nikon D300 (over 280k shutter actuations....)

Nikon 17-55 f2.8 AF-S DX

Sigma 10-20

Nikon AF-D 80-200 f2.8

Sigma 8mm Fisheye on Nodal Ninja R10 + Ball mount for SV|T

Flash Nikon SB-900 (sometimes + 2xSB600)

Ricoh Theta S for low budget SV|T, mounted on my helmet, on a minitripod+minipole, on car mount

GoPro Hero+ + mount adapters

Cards, readers and adapters

12000 mAh battery

Aukey 20W solar charge

Manfrotto X190ProB tripod with three axis head

Batteries and charger

X-Lapse mini rotator for timelapses with Theta or GoPro

Radio Remote Shutter

4G LTE WiFi portable router

iPhone 6S, for mapping and communication with Theta

And my Oneplus One for this shoot and for SV app mapping and Theta control

[Nick-Hobgood]

It takes more like a small suitcase but the gear I take is the following from left to right: 

• Canon 60mm macro lens - good for small critters and underwater close-ups
• Tokina 10-17mm wide angle - great for wide-angle underwater and photo spheres
• M-1 Nodal Ninja panohead
• Canon Rebel SL1 - a good compact camera for travel
• Ikelite strobes to light up underwater subjects
• Ikelite housing for the Canon SL1 camera
• Benro tripod

More pictures taken with this gear here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/globalvoyager/

[rtsayles]

Just my IPAD and Iphone, I am a light traveler 🙂

Robby