I do miss the days when you just threw your film SLR in your topbox and 10 rolls of Fuji and that was all. Taking a DSLR, battery chargers, leads and possibly a laptop or hard-drive with you is a bit of a pain. It's just the immediacy of digital is addictive now. On my last trip I took my 5D2 with a 50mm on it and a S90 in my pocket. This seemed perfect and not too bulky. Lots of SD/compact flash cards is what I do but I'm not away for over a month.
If you want to shoot film as well it makes sense to have 2 bodies, digital and film, that use the same lenses. I can't do this as my film camera is an FM2. Then again I could buy a Canon EOS film body which wouldn't be too expensive, you can get dream cameras from the 80's for peanuts these days.
I imagine that the light is amazing in Africa and film just captures it so much better so I understand why you would want to.
Pare, I'm presuming you went to Africa this winter so what did you end up taking with you?
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