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nesgran
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Actually, I was going to write a little about minimising noise. Using ETTR (expose to the right) you can get away with pretty low noise, or at least not too intrusive. I have an ancient 40D still going strong (lovely camera actually) and when it came out ISO 1600 would look bad. With ETTR though and some modern noise reduction the results are still very good even at ISO 1600 with very little colour noise.

ETTR: overexpose deliberately by 2/3 stop and then pull back in post. It minimises shadow noise as on Canons at least that is the most troubling bit. Only downside is that one has to keep looking at the histogram to make sure highlights aren’t clipped.

As for lugging kit, I think I win šŸ™‚ . I brought a 350D and a sigma 18-125 lens mountaineering in central asia. Nearest road was two days walk and nearest people at least five days away at an altitudeĀ  topped out with the rebel at about 4300m. I’m still kicking myself I didn’t bring a better camera and lens. Next time I’m thinking 6D, 24-105, 580EXII flash, carbon fibre tripod, flash bracket and an umbrella. These trips need to pay for themselves after all.