>>4338787Nikonos V (and start practice shooting it now bc you won't like it having to figure it out on the trail). It weighs as much as your head, and you'll have to fuck about with film cartridges and worry about # of shots, but they will be beautiful.
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And just like fucking roll with me for a sec, but lets reconsider the hated Nikon ZF, + a 14-30 f4 lens. On a trip like this, you're gonna take 3 kinds of images.
1. vidya
2. quick snaps for your feed
3. very fucking fine hi-res landscapes.
1.It does fine and great but through that fucking excellent glass
2.Only does at 24mp, which, nigga that's still huge compared to how far down you're going to crop & resize for posting anywhere, and with that lens they still look goddamn spectacular compared to any shitty phone pics.
3. Great big Fuck Off landscapes actually work pretty well innawoods bc the wind's not moving every damn thing around so much that it doesn't work. Set your timing so it blasts em fast & the merge in post does the rest. Use a simple light hand-sized tripod and a strap to mount it on stable rocks or around tree trunks so it's still, and BAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAM there's your 140mpx mega wide panorama of the beautiful PNW. The rest of your life you will see them and be thankful you took the effort. People will tell you to publish them in a book but you will know better.
The nicety of the ZF is that with lens off, it's flat as fuck and packs down nicely anywhere you want to put it, including carry-ons, outer pack pockets and jacket pockets. The 14-30 is a stout little fucker, small enough to sit in your other jacket pocket. Not as compact as a P&S, but shoots the kind of images you're going to want at a quality far better. Fuck I should get another one. I had one and sold it bc I had to have a Sony. Fuck the Sony was made by engineers, not designers. Fits in the hand like shit, trying to do anything requires the misery of their menus. Rather gouge my eyes out with skewers.
