Longtail Boat at Sunset in Thailand
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Southern Thailand may not be the right place to go when you are looking for a lonesome island, but nevertheless the sunsets over the Andaman Sea are awesome! This longtail boat is driving tourists from Ko Phi Phi Leh to Ko Phi Phi Don. Both islands offer some amazing nature but are overrun with tourists, so if you are looking for a true nature experience look somewhere else. Party lovers will love Ko Phi Phi though!
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I love the long tail!
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beautiful picture
Thank you :)
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What a beautiful, moody composition! Your photography skills are really something to aspire to.
Out of curiosity, may I ask what kind of gear you use? Camera, lenses etc.
Almost all of my photos were captured with a Sony Alpha 37 and the Sony 18-135 travel zoom lens, so no super-professional gear.
This year I got a Nikon D5500 with another travel zoom lens and a wide angle zoom, but only my newest photos are shot with that camera. I would have loved to get a compact mirrorless, but so far none of the systems could convince me, so I will probably be shooting with the Nikon for some years before I have to change systems again..
I used a Samsung NX2000 for a few years and found it to be a pretty decent compromise. I travel ultra light so the smaller the better. I used to have a Nikon D7000 with a 70-300mm, 50mm f/1.8, and the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 (which is probably the best ultra-wide zoom on the market, from a cost vs performance point of view). Unfortunately, that would have taken up half of my backpack, so I sold it all and bought the Samsung NX2000 with a 20-50mm kit lens in a fire sale (€80).
It was a decent camera. The image sensor was fantastic for a camera of its size and price, 20MP CMOS with APS-C crop. The depth of field was pretty shitty, the controls were awkward, and there was no viewfinder, but the dynamic range was good and it shot Raw, so I was pretty happy with it for the price. After I got it wet in Pakistan, the light meter stopped working, I had to shoot at 1/4000 in direct sunlight, and changing the aperture didn't affect the exposure, so it's definitely not very weather resistant! Not a bad servant though.
Eventually I lost it in Georgia, leaving it on a bus after going on a wine tour. So I went down to the bazaar and bought an emergency camera, a Nikon D3100 with the 18-55mm kit lens. It's not bad, but not great either. Eventually, when I have the money, I'll go for a Fuji X100, which has Leica size and performance, but a proper viewfinder that looks through the lens. It also has a pretty amazing selection of wide-aperture lenses. Much cheaper than a Leica as well. I'd suggest it to you as a compact option as well.
The Fuji seem to be the best mirrorless cameras at the moment, but unfortunately the lenses are quite expensive. I don't like to travel with such expensive equipment since loosing or breaking a camera happens so easily..
This were some of the cameras and lenses (travel zoom + wide angle + prime) I was considering (Cheapest prices for new products in Germany in August 2017):
Nikon D5500 Kit 18-140 f3.5-5.6 (465g+490g/970€-50€ Cashback) + Nikon 10-20 f4.5-5.6 (230g/350€) + Nikon 35mm/1.8 (200g/190€) = 1.385g/1.460€. Possibly Sigma Art 18-35.
I love the handling, the amount of lenses available and even got it even a lot cheaper in the end..
Olympus E-M10 Mark II kit Olympus 14-150mm f4.0-5.6 (342g+285g/850€ - 75€ Cashback) + Olympus 9-18 f4-5.6 (155g/530€-100€ Cashback) + Pansonic 25 mm f1.7 (125g/170€) = 907g/1.375€
Con: Mft Sensor
Panasonic GX8 + kit Pansonic 14-140 (435g+265g/1.200€) + Olympus 9-18 f4-5.6 (155g/530€-100€ Cashback) + Pansonic 25 mm f1.7 (125g/170€) = 980g/1.800€
Con: Mft Sensor
Canon Eos M5 mit Kit 18-150 f3.5-6.3 (427g+300g/1.300€-120€ Cashback) + 11-22mm f/4-5.6 (220g/330€-60€ Cashback) + Canon 22mm f2 (105g/215€-25€ Cashback) = 1.052g/1.640€
Con: Almost no native lenses, Canon Sensor
Sony A-6000 450€ + 18-105 f4 500€ + Samyang 12mm f2 255€ 1.205€/976g + Sony 35mm f/1,8 400€/155g = (344 g + 427 g + 200 g)
Con: Great specs, but I absolutely didn't like the handling even though I came from a Sony camera! Also 105mm is not a lot of zoom and the wide angle zoom is very expensive..
Fuji X-T20 900€ + 18-135 700€ + Samyang 12mm f2 340€ (383g+490g+200g) 1.940€/1.073g = ( 383g + 490g + 410g)
Con: Too expensive for a travel camera
That's quite a sound comparison you've done there! Makes sense though. Photography is your primary discipline. For me it's secondary.
great pictures and very inspiring of course.
Thanks!
Wow, gratuliere zu diesem Foto, wirklich sehr schön!
Danke!
looks quite dramatic!
Thanks, it was a beautiful sunset!