Comments on: Trip of a lifetime? Bring a spare camera.

By: Kara

Kara — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:47:40 +0000

True story: On a three-generation trip to Africa (safari), the first night in the tent, *someone* knocked over a wobby table, sending red wine INTO the camera that was being cleaned (and so the lens was off). Ruined a really, really good DSLR. Thankfully, they’d packed a back-up DSLR — at the last minute. Fab photos of wild animals came home.

I was not present; these are my in laws. I don’t think I would have survived the shock/stress of wine IN a camera.

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:54:09 +0000

Cell phone anyone?
Even if you don’t have service, you can save to the phone and download/send later.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:52:01 +0000

Oh yes! I threw my camera into a glacial river in Switzerland halfway through a three week trip through Europe. My dad promptly took me to a camera shop and bought me a new camera…luckily it was a decent one and is my backup camera now. I feel your pain!!!

By: Dominique

Dominique — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:37:49 +0000

I had a camera mishap the first day of our long-awaited trip to Spain and France. View screen broken in transit on my point-and-shoot. Fortunately, I had a second camera slightly larger digital camera with me and relied on it the rest of the two week trip. Waited ’til I got home to repair the other camera.

Tim also fell on some slippery rocks while trying to take a photo with my point-and-shoot on another trip. He was all right…the camera was not. Again, I had another (larger) SLR with, so I still had a camera to use for the rest of the weekend.

I wouldn’t dream of traveling without a second camera :)

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:57:43 +0000

You couldn’t get a disposable for the time being??? I know that I wouldn’t be able to buy a THIRD camera… but I could probably afford a disposable, they even make disposable digital cameras…

Good advice… but I say if you are trying to NOT spend money on another camera, you should settle for disposable.

By: Carolina

Carolina — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:00:38 +0000

And then there’s the video camera…I always forget to charge it up.

By: Sharlene

Sharlene — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:09:26 +0000

Point taken. I will start bringing our extra camera on big trips in case of such an emergency. I have forgotten my memory card and gone into panic mode before but a replacement card is much cheaper than a new camera