Several people have asked us to help them set up for a travelling documentary of their own. Our Time Management post should have put them off. For those who are still interested, here’s a list of what we’ve taken with us. They are of varying importance, and although it looks like a lot, all this equipment fits into 6 bags—a rucksack and a messenger bag each.
Also, it may look like we have an unnecessary amount of hard drives, batteries and so on. We don’t. First, batteries are our life force, and we’ve run out a couple of times already. When you’re travelling it’s often difficult to find time to charge them. The same is true for the SDHC cards. And as for the hard drives, we’re making two copies of everything, so that we can post every chunk of footage to two separate addresses from two different post offices. That way, if one gets lost or damaged, we still have another copy to rely on.
That’s it. Here’s the list. If you have questions, either contact us or leave a comment below.
Cameras
4 cameras
2 lens caps
2 lenses (should be 3)
1 lens cleaner kit
4 lens cloths
3 grey cards
Stabilisers
2 tripods
1 gorillapod
1 boom pole + bag
1 monopod
Audio
2 headphones
2 Lavelier wireless boxes
2 short XLR cables
1 Zoom H2
3 Zoom H2 accessories
1 Shotgun mic
1 mic cable
1 mixer
1 mixer to DSLR cable
Computers and Computer Cables
3 computers
1 US computer cable
1 UK computer cable
1 US computer adapter
Phones
2 phones with internet sim cards
Hard Drives
2 iomega 320 GB
7 500 GB
Batteries
12 camera batteries
12 rechargeable AA batteries
4 9V batteries
SDHC cards
1 128MB SDHC card
8 32GB SDHC cards
1 8GB SDHC
1 4GB SDHC
2 card readers
Bags
3 camera bags
1 audio bag
3 Osprey bags
3 50L rucksacks
Assortment of vacuum pack and waterproof bags
Chargers and Power adapters
1 JVC Battery charger (Scart)
1 direct camera charger (Scart)
Braun Canon Battery charger with power adapter (EU)
Unomat 4 AA battery charger (Scart)
1 Unomat power adapter
2 B cam battery charger (Scart)
1 C cam battery charger (USA)
1 Nokia phone charger
Plug Adapters/Splitters
1 Universal Plug adapter
2 USA/EU to UK adapter
1 USA to EU adapter
1 UK/EU to US adapter
2 3-way UK plug splitter
1 3-way EU plug splitter
Scart Cables
2 EU scart cables
1 USA scart cable
1 UK scart cable
USB Cables
4 regular USB cables
1 firewire cable
2 USB 3 cables
1 Ipod touch USB
Personal Kit
Clothing
Books
Towel
Sleeping bag liner