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If you have trouble packing your wires, chargers and extension cables, then you are in luck! Our beloved New Yorker – photographer David Bergman with his show on AdoramaTV will share his tips and tricks on how to pack those entangled bastards.
David Bergman “I live in New York City but travel quite a bit both domestically and internationally. The problem now is every piece of equipment takes a different battery charger, and it drives us crazy! If I go on the road with a Canon 1DX MkII a 5D Mk IV, a flash, and a phone, that’s four different chargers that I have to bring with me. There’s not much I can do about all those different chargers, but there’s a few other things I do to minimize the pain.”
“I pack all of them in the smallest bag possible because everything’s together and I don’t lose any little pieces when I’m on the road but I’m sure this has happened to you. You get to a hotel room and there’s only one or two accessible power outlets, all the rest of them seem to be behind furniture, and you don’t want to move the bed around, so what I do is I travel with a power strip either a full-size one, or a small travel one, that has a USB port and then I can plug everything into that and just have one plug into the wall, and have everything powered up and ready to go.”
“Also if I’m traveling internationally I like to use universal plug adapters, but I don’t have to carry around a whole extra bag of different plugs. The challenge is that if I put one of those on every charger it’s going to get unnecessarily bulky and expensive really quickly. So I can use that same power strip, and just put one adapter on the end and then use all my American plugs just like normal, so be prepared and organized.”
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