Many travelers to Nepal ask: Is digital photography up to the challenges of extended outdoor adventures?
Digital photography is related with various aspect of photo Journalism like photo file formats, transfer, organizing and archiving of photo files, photo editing and other news technology in the field of photojournalism
Advantages of Digital Photography:
- No film needed (except for backup): much lower cost, no fear about damaged film at airports
- Instant feedback,
- Dramatically reduced post-processing time (no need to scan slides) and easier archival
Challenges on Using in the mountains and outdoors:
What makes digital photography challenging: there is no power grid readily accessible, the weight one can carry is very limited, and the environment is not exactly as electronics-friendly as in a fashion studio. The storage of digital images is a very much correlated issue: Power actually is an issue only when weight is a constraint:
A laptop is also out of question, for power requirements and weight reasons too.
The (rather proprietary) Apacer battery lasts for about 2 hours in standard conditions, equivalent of about 25 CDs. Shooting on average 75 pictures per day in RAW format (climbing would keep me otherwise busy), I would burn less than 2 CDs per day on average, including backup CDs. So, in theory, the burner's battery would be just enough for the time you'd spend in the wild.
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