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Old 04-05-11 | 08:58 AM
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Originally Posted by MKIV987
I'd love to take my Nikon D50 out on tour with me but I'm afraid of ruining it/breaking it. Anyone here take nice cameras out on tour? What do you do to shield them from shock extreme heat and cold? Should I just stick with a point and shoot?
I use a Pentax 100D with a zoom lens on tour. I carry it in an Ortlieb bag with a camera insert. The Ortlieb is waterproof and has a very solid mount. I'd much rather use the Pentax over a point and shoot because I was raised on SLR film cameras. I find trying to use a view screen to be somewhat difficult when trying to frame a shot.

If I am going to do a mountain bike tour, however, I carry a point and shoot since the SLR is much more bulky and mounting a handlebar bag to a mountain bike handlebar is more challenging.
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