YOUR ADVICE G6 travel performance

I will travelling doing some foreign travel with my NEW G6 and the BP-511A battery pack! Sooo... I need YOUR REAL WORLD ADVICE working with the G6 on how the G6and its battery fares in real world shooting applied to this situation....

Assume: 150-175 shots per day, little use of flash, easy access to electricity for recharging at night

Is the battery pack that comes with the camera enough under the circumstances (based on Canon's claims it should be)?

If not, what brands do you suggest for backup (Sterlingtek?)

BONUS QUESTION: How much memory would you take with you for SAVING 75 images a day for 8 days at Superfine/Large mainly but various other settings for snapshots... assume you carry CF cards only?

Hello,

I just went on a trip to the States, we were there for a whole month.

I took my standard travel kit - 1dMK2, 28-105, 70-200, 15-30, 580 flash and extension tubes. I also purchased a G6 as a backup camera incase of theft, loss, accident or breaking news.

After playing with the G6 for the first week I found that 90% of the time I would reach for this camera.

The G6 is an amazing bit of Kit. I used a lot of manual settings with it and with a bit of pratice came to love it. The flexablility of just having it in your pocket is HUGE and very descrete.

I would average about 140 shots per fully charged battery, including lots of reviewing of images. About 30 % of the images used flash for fill to some degree.

On retruning to the UK I had 157 photos printed from the G6 in 5x7 inch size and they are AMAZING. I cannot tell they were digital and I shot them !!!!!

I was so impressed with the camera that in a few weeks we are taking a quick week away to Ibiza and I am contemplating just taking the G6 (porbably wont happen as never been anywhere with a HUGE camera bag in 15 years) but am thinking very hard. My wife is happy as we always seem to get attention when I start pulling out camera gear for shots.

here are a couple of pictures taken with the G6 from My US holiday.

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I have a G5, but I have used it extensively on vacations and also when taking site visit documentation photos for work (typically 100-150 shots at a time). I bought a spare battery (the cheap kind they sell at Best Buy). With my G5, I can almost always get away with using one fully charged battery, but the Canon battery does last significantly longer than the knock-off. I have also noticed that battery life is heavily dependant on ambient temperature (at least for me). I noticed during winter shoots, my batteries seem to die a lot quicker, almost exponentially faster.

As far as the storage question, it sounds like you would need about 8 gigs or so with that many photos.

You should be fine if you recharge every night, but a spare battery is just a wonderful thing--inevitably, you'll forget to charge your main battery, or you'll take more shots, and wish you had it. Like others, I went with a cheap non-Canon spare--it's always been enough to finish up the day.

For storage, I use a Delkin USB bridge--check my report on using it for a 3 week vacation:
https://photography-on-the.net …?t=62476&highli​ght=delkin
Another option is hitting local camera stores, and transferring to CD--but that requires taking time away from having fun.