<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by obscure2k:
My advice when traveling to Africa is to take along a back-up camera. My Nikon N70's shutter froze as we were ascending in a hot air balloon. Fortunately, I had my trusty old little Leica rangefinder as a back-up. </font>
This is good advise in general. If you are taking a "once-in-a-lifetime" type trip or photo op, then having a second camera along if possible is a good idea.
I recently took a special trip to Las Vegas and brought two cameras everywhere I went. I was fortunate enough to hitch a ride on the Fujifilm Blimp over the Las Vegas strip. The batteries in one of the camera died just I began taking pictures. My spare batteries were in my backpack down on "planet earth". Thankfully, the second camera worked great. I got some amazing pictures.
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