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IntroductionThe trip to Costa Rica was my first photography trip with a photography group. It was also my first major trip with the Canon 1Ds. I purchased it just about a month before the trip. I also brought along probably too much equipment. I had the Canon100-400mm, 28-135mm, 16-35mm, and the 50mm f/1 lenses. I also had the 1.4x and 2.0x extension. The 1.4x I used a lot but the 2.0x never came out of the bag. The flash was a 550EX with the Better Beamer used often. My tripod is the Gitzo G1329 with the Acra Swiss B1 ball head and the Gitzo G1321 leveling base. I used a Lowepro Stealth backpack to get all my stuff on the plane but I used the Lowepro Street and Field system while hiking. I use SanDisk 1G compact flash cards rather than the IBM microdrives. And my trusty Titanium Apple Laptop was used for bulk storage.

First LessonI came back with 1200 images. One thing I learned along...

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