Must Watch Travel Photo Tip with Scott Kelby

[BitterClinger]

Spot on, Scott. I'm doing exactly that as I sit here in Lithuania!

[seaberry]

I love Porto! Night photography is great there!

[klaras]

... my camera died during holidays in Prague almost 10 years ago, it was nikon d40... i started to use my phone and realised that my phone could do so many things... and these days phones have much better cameras... 🤗

[HR-wdcw]

This is a very good tip. Even if your second camera is a $500 DSLR. It's better than nothing and probably better than the average Smartphone. Even a 5 year old DSLR would work fine as a backup (ideally, two cameras that can share the same set of lenses is best). I'm not quite sold on the smartphone as a backup camera though... I need a dedicated backup camera I guess.

Especially if you're spending thousands of dollars to go on vacation, even if you don't own a second camera body, rent one for a few hundred dollars. Hoepfully you won't need it, but if you do, you'll have it (the other key is to ahve it with you though -- not leave it at the hotel, but maybe leave it in the car if you're doing landscape, or with you if you're doing travel photography; but at least have a second body or system of some sort just in case, so the most you might lose out on is a day's worth of shooting. Not your entire trip. Having a second body saved me because I was out shooting landscapes (where there was some water present -- luckily fresh water not salt water) and some how a bit of moisture must have ended up on the sensor (looked like a dried water spot) -- luckily I was able to switch to my backup so I could keep shooting, and then clean the sensor on the other camera later that night, but If I didn't have the second body handy, I would have had to do a lot of spot removal or stopped shooting.

[JenniferKlinger]

I know its called "body", but why? A body for me is the thing the covers my soul.
(Sorry, fun question from an Austrian)