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Category: Gear

Articles about gear and equipment

5th

May

Amateur Radio, Gear, Uncategorized

What’s In My Bag—Amateur Radio Go Bag

by Hiking with Camera

The Radios The core of my setup are two Yaesu VX-6R handheld radios.  I chose the Yaesu VX-6R due to it’s robust durability and water resistance. Taking it in the backcountry, I’m likely to encounter all sorts of challenging environments. It also is likely to hold up should I ever face a long-term local emergency […]

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Yaesu VX-6R with Elastic Signal Stick on a rocky peak with a blurry Mount Rainier in the background

20th

Aug

Amateur Radio, Gear

Amateur Radio: A New Hobby

by Hiking with Camera

Several years ago, while camping at Upper Lena Lake in Olympic National Park, I met a fellow camper who had a “ham” radio. We got to talking and he talked about being able to pick up signals from all the way back to the main highway. I realized this could be a really useful form […]

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iPad Pro with a dark background

26th

Jul

Photography, Product Reviews

Choosing the Right iPad for Me

by Hiking with Camera

As a hiking photographer, there are some great advantages to having a portable, photo editing tool. With the upcoming release of iPadOS, the iPad may, for the first time, become a tool that serious photographers can use as a significant part of their workflow. Features such as external drive support and direct import of files […]

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26th

Oct

Photography, Product Reviews

A Review of Lightroom CC

by Hiking with Camera

As many of you likely know, a couple months ago, I migrated my entire Lightroom Classic library to Lightroom CC for Desktop. For a little over two months, I maintained two separate workflows for my photography, one in the Lightroom CC ecosystem and one in Lightroom Classic, completely cut off from syncing with Lightroom CC. […]

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Winter Landscape with my Osprey Mutant 38

27th

Sep

Gear, Hiking

What’s in my Bag—Backpacking 2019 Update

by Hiking with Camera

A year after my last update to my backpacking kit, and already things have changed significantly again. What’s perhaps most interesting, is in my last update, I’d transitioned to the Gregory Baltoro, in large part due to the heavy weight of my full frame DSLR gear. Although by the time I’d written that update, I’d […]

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My family carry setup

26th

Sep

Gear

What’s in my Bag—Daily Carry 2018 Update

by Hiking with Camera

Recently I posted about my quest for a new travel bag that would also work as a daily carry. Well, after much deliberation, I settled on the Boundary Supply Prima System. I just got that bag and have just started using it. I’ll review the bag eventually, but today is to show you how I’m […]

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My Ona Prince Street on a table next to my iPad Pro

17th

Sep

Gear, Photography

One Bag Travel Photographer: The Search

by Hiking with Camera

I’m currently on a journey to find the right setup for my travels. I’m reaching analysis paralysis, so I thought I’d leverage my network and see if others have any opinions that might help sway me one way or another. So, without further ado, here is my dilemma. Current Setup At the moment, I do […]

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Jon taking landscapes with his X-T2 and 14mm lens against a panoramic mountain backdrop

6th

Jul

Gear, Photography

My Favorite Fuji Lenses

by Hiking with Camera

Photo credit: Lou Toni for the feature image above I’ve been using Fujifilm for just over a year now. About three months ago, after gathering dust, I finally sold my beloved Canon 6D an lenses. (I did keep my nifty fifty and Canon Elan 7NE. I couldn’t entirely give up Canon, and that is my […]

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The outdoor antenna mounted in the front of the Mantis for the cell signal booster

22nd

Jun

Camping Trailers, Product Reviews

Mantis Mods: weBoost Cell Enhancer

by Hiking with Camera

One of the early enhancements we made to our Cricket was a cell signal booster. We went on 26 trips in the first year of our Cricket. That’s every other weekend plus a few longer trips (4–16 days), and we continued going out throughout the cold winter months, so having a good cell signal allowed […]

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Three 160 watt flexible solar panels adhered to the Mantis roof

8th

Jun

Camping Trailers, Product Reviews

Mantis Mods: 480 Watts of Solar Power

by Hiking with Camera

Update and WARNING: The solar setup described below has become problematic for several reasons: The panel that goes over the aluminum strip down the center of the roof interferes with the maintenance and weather sealing of that strip. The panels butting against the strip, while not preventing maintenance, do make it more complicated. Due to […]

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