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Preparing to Travel With Your Camera

What you need to think about before travelling with your camera.

Joel Brown
6 min readNov 14, 2019
Photo by Rosie Kerr on Unsplash

You have spent the past few months planning and booking your perfect holiday. Arriving at the hotel, you cannot wait to get out and start sightseeing.

You grab the camera and hustle the family out to see the sights.

You go to turn the camera on and there is no response.

You try again. Nothing.

You open the battery compartment and the battery is there and you realize it must be flat. Is there a spare? No. Hopefully, the charger is back at the hotel.

Essential Camera Checks Before Leaving Home

We can easily avoid the situation described above with just a little planning before leaving home. Checks that are essential if you want to capture every moment of your trip.

4–6 Weeks Before Travelling

The first four checks are best completed with as much time before travelling as possible. It allows you maximum opportunity to resolve any problems you find.

1. The Camera

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Joel Brown
Joel Brown

Written by Joel Brown

My favourite topics walking, photography, motivation, ideas, and writing. Let’s have Coffee @ https://ko-fi.com/joel_brown

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