A small glimpse of the equipment we’ll be bringing on our Japan trip

Since we’re all a bunch of tech geeks, we thought we’d share some of the equipment that we’ll be bringing on our trip to Japan. Most people throw in a cheap point-and-shoot camera and be done with it. This is not the case for us, as we all enjoy photography and technology in general with a passion.

Hinjew will be bringing a Sony Cybershot DSCHX5VB camera (10.2 MP and 10x optical zoom) with a built-in GPS tracker for geotagging. The camera can also do 1080p video easily.

Thundergod, the somewhat professional photographer of the group, is bringing his spankin’ Nikon D90 camera (12.1 MP) with a 18-105mm VR lens for video and secondary photo-taking. He’s also bringing an Olympus E3 with a 14-35mm f/2 and 7-14mm f/4 Zuiko lenses for photo, along with a Zuiko 8mm fish-eye lens. On top of all this, an Olympus FL-50 flash unit, 4 CF memory cards and 1 SDHC card. Oh, he’s also bringing a Gary Fong Diffuser.

Fallout has a Canon Rebel XS (10.1 MP) with a 18-55mm and 72-160mm lenses with a separate GPS logger to geotag his pictures. He hasn’t chosen his geotagging unit yet, as he hasn’t come across a good model. Alongside his camera, he will be bringing an Apple Macbook Pro 13″ unibody laptop to document the journey across Japan.