Photography toolkit
Not including Swiss Army penknife kept separately.
One observation: the Wimberley 1/4" QR bolts are of far superior quality compared with Manfrotto / generic Chinese versions. They have at least one more level of threading than the others. Downside is that you need an allen key to tighten them. Another observation: idiotic of Arca-Swiss not to use a safety mechanism such as Wimberley uses (that's what those little stainless bolts are for).
Other useful stuff that I carry in the backpack not shown here includes: small first-aid kit, compass, approx. 10 feet of paracord; approx. 2 feet of black duct tape, to be wrapped around a screwdriver; bungee chord for dealing with tree branches etc.; sheaf of small bookmark post-it notes for sticking to grads to properly visualize the transitions; extra large exped dry bag for covering camera in rain; large draw-string binliner with bottom cut off, for use as a rain cover for camera when shooting in wet conditions (use draw-string end to attach to lens-end, just like an Optech lens sleeve) - so far used only once, but worked well; merino buff, to wear like a ski-mask, to attempt to cut down condensation on ground glass when using loupe in cold weather; blank CDs for using tripod on sand.
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Photography toolkit
Not including Swiss Army penknife kept separately.
One observation: the Wimberley 1/4" QR bolts are of far superior quality compared with Manfrotto / generic Chinese versions. They have at least one more level of threading than the others. Downside is that you need an allen key to tighten them. Another observation: idiotic of Arca-Swiss not to use a safety mechanism such as Wimberley uses (that's what those little stainless bolts are for).
Other useful stuff that I carry in the backpack not shown here includes: small first-aid kit, compass, approx. 10 feet of paracord; approx. 2 feet of black duct tape, to be wrapped around a screwdriver; bungee chord for dealing with tree branches etc.; sheaf of small bookmark post-it notes for sticking to grads to properly visualize the transitions; extra large exped dry bag for covering camera in rain; large draw-string binliner with bottom cut off, for use as a rain cover for camera when shooting in wet conditions (use draw-string end to attach to lens-end, just like an Optech lens sleeve) - so far used only once, but worked well; merino buff, to wear like a ski-mask, to attempt to cut down condensation on ground glass when using loupe in cold weather; blank CDs for using tripod on sand.
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