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Photographic Equipment Recommendations for the Grand Canyon Expedition
Against Shooting Digital

I'm going to strongly discourage members from shooting digital. There are two and possibly three real impediments to doing so on this trip. 
The first is battery power. The second is file storage. 
Most people will shoot between 1,000 and 2,000 frames on this trip. That's some 30-50 rolls of 36-exp film. Maybe double that in medium format. 
I'm not sure how many shots on a battery a D1x gets, but likely less than 300. That would mean the need for between 4 and 8 batteries.  A Canon D30, which has very low battery requirements would still need 3 - 4 double battery sets. 
As for file storage, this represents between 4 and 8 one GB Microdrives. I wouldn't trust aDigital Walletwith these one-in-a-lifetime shots, and it too has limited battery capacity. 
So, for all of these reasons, and also because this trip will be very rough on equipment, I'm going to be u...

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