Checking Camera On Laptop

[Marie Ota]

Youmay want to repurpose your webinar content and use it as a podcast or as training for remote employees. Using a good microphone and camera is key to delivering an evergreen webinar with high production value.

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Traveling with photography equipment can be a challenge. Airlines limit the size and weight of cabin bags so much that it's nearly impossible to bring all gear as carry-on. While I've accepted that my tripod has to go into checked luggage, cameras, lenses, filters, and laptop have to stay with me. In this article, I share a little travel hack that helps to get around hand luggage limitations.

Over the past ten years of traveling, I had to weigh my hand luggage three times. Each time my bag was around 5 kg above the limit, which is typically 7 or 8 kg. The first time, I could persuade the airline staff that my photography gear was too valuable to put into hold luggage and that there had never been a problem fitting it into the overhead compartment.

Before boarding a flight back to Germany from the Seychelles, I ran into a bigger problem. As I went to drop my large bag and collect my ticket, the lady at the counter didn't want to allow me to keep my camera bag as a carry-on item due to its weight. She refused to process my luggage and hand out the ticket, and I couldn't convince her otherwise. After a few minutes, I saw someone from Qatar Airways, with whom I was flying, walk by and quickly talked to her. Thankfully, she was understanding, and I could keep my camera gear as a carry-on.

Those three incidents showed me that I'm on thin ice with my camera gear. It's just a question of time until I get into more severe problems as airlines enforce their hand luggage policy more and more in the future. As it stands, it's simply not a good idea to check any valuable gear. Too many checked bags get lost or damaged nowadays. So it was essential for me to find a solution that would allow me more wiggle room the next time I get stopped.

Several conveyor belts at Frankfurt Airport looked like this in Summer 2022. Stranded bags were a common sight at many European airports. You don't want this to happen to your bags. And you certainly don't want to have valuable gear in your checked luggage if it happens.

Most airlines allow not only one carry-on item but two. You can usually carry a laptop and small personal items in a separate bag. The total weight stays the same, but distributing your gear can still help next time you get stopped by airline or airport staff to weigh your hand luggage.

In the feature video, I show my solution for distributing weight during check-in. My 15'' Dell XPS goes into a robust Inateck laptop case with some accessories. I place this case in an Eagle Creek Packable Daypack. It is very thin and weighs next to nothing. I put it into the large front compartment of my NYA-Evo Fjord 60c camera backpack.

My camera bag usually weighs around 13 kg when I'm traveling. Before I head to the counter to drop off my hold luggage, I remove the daypack from my backpack. In addition to my laptop, I put my passport, purse, power bank, headphones, and other small gear in there. In the end, it weighs a bit over 3 kg. As a result, I now carry three bags: the large bag I want to check in, my camera backpack on my back, and the small daypack.

Usually, nobody notices the daypack as I put it down in front of the counter. If my hand luggage has to be weighed, I take my backpack from my shoulders and put it onto the scales. It is still too heavy, but 2 - 3 kg is much less of a problem than 6 kg.

After claiming my main luggage, I continue my travels with a two bag configuration. The Eagle Creek daypack is again stored in the front compartment of the NYA-Evo Fjord. At the back, I carry a Db Nr 65L Duffe.

Having a daypack with you doesn't only help with the hand luggage limitations. It also makes traveling much more comfortable. I usually wear the NYA-Evo Fjord at the back and the daypack at the front while I'm at the airport. I have easy access to my travel papers, and I get through security faster because I can quickly get out my laptop.

After boarding the plane, I put the daypack under the seat in front of me. This way, I don't have to access the overhead compartment if I want to get my headphones or cell phone, which I also put in there.

I know that hand luggage restrictions are there for a reason. People with heavy bags usually slow down the boarding process, and those overhead compartments are designed with those limitations in mind. That's why splitting the weight, as I show above, is a great solution. It doesn't only help you if you have to weigh your cabin bag. It also makes boarding much quicker and reduces the need to access the overhead compartment during a flight.

Michael Breitung is a freelance landscape and travel photographer from Germany. In the past 10 years he visited close to 30 countries to build his high quality portfolio and hone his skills as a photographer. He also has a growing Youtube channel, in which he shares the behind the scenes of his travels as well as his knowledge about photo editing.

got stopped at the gate at SFO. Had to surrender my camera bag. I tried the fact that I had lithium batteries in the bag. The gate personal made me take out the spare batteries and the camera bodies which rode on my lap for 4 hours.

I bring my Tenba rolling camera bag with cameras, lenses, and laptop, but I also bring a large Lowepro messenger bag, so if they say my rolling bag is too big, I can just transfer my laptop, and camera gear to the smaller messenger bag, which can fit underneath the seat in front of me ( or in the bin above me). I also put my phone in there, as well as a snack, magazine, etc.

The Vest is your friend. I carry my phone, iPad, headphones, pen, spare batteries, SD cards and sometimes even a couple of lenses. Wear the vest when you check in. I have *never* had an airline check the weight on my vest and I can guarantee it has weighed 5-6kg by itself

I will *try* not to go on a rant where I've seen gate agents argue with me about the weight of my carryon and someone comes in behind me with a baby and about 40kg of associated "baby stuff" for the flight and they don't say a word.

These are all good ideas. But the best idea is a vest. Mine has gigantic pockets, including a large one across the back. Heavy lenses, camera bodies - all in the vest until we board, then it goes back in the bag.

the best idea is to steer clear of cheap fares where their revenue model is to nickel & dime you. Stay away from regional jets that usually require you to gate check larger carry-ons. Any airline that has a weight limit listed on their carry-on baggage for less than 15kg is likely to charge you penalty check fees if you have a heavy gear bag.

I never travel with budget airlines, but I've yet to find an airline that allows more than 10kg hand luggage. All European, middle-east, asian and australian airlines with whom I traveled in the past 10+ years have those limits. Unless you travel business class, you'll have to find a way around those limits.

Good idea perhaps for you, but you can't always get anything under the forward seat, then it's in the overhead. I am so fed up with overheads so full that you can't get your own expensive , single bag in above your seat as other people have stuffed 2 , 3 bags and other bits above by hiding it when boarding from crew.

Just try flying in Africa , you can be in row 3 but your hand baggage is above row 20 ...that's if your lucky , alternatively if no space then it goes in the hold ......if you are lucky

The John Spoor Broome Library Circulation Desk circulates digital cameras, camcorders, audio recorders, laptops and tripods to currently registered students. Check out our video on library equipment and how to check them out. Library equipment can be checked out when the library is open on a first-come, first-served basis.

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