Choosing the right equipment

While many travellers are content to rely on their smartphones these days, despite their many advantages a smartphone could let you down if you want great photos of a once-in-a-lifetime trip. Smartphones are fine for everyday snapshooting. They’re light, compact and always accessible and it’s easy to share images.

Today’s smartphones can provide high resolution plus support for 4K video recording. Many include complex processing and some have zoom capabilities. A few can record wide dynamic ranges and some support raw capture and processing. Replaceable microSD cards allow extended storage space and many phones have high-capacity batteries that can be charged from flat to 50% in as little as 30 minutes.

Ostensibly, a smartphone might be all you need. But appearances can be deceptive.

Their physical design and the total reliance on the screen for framing shots and adjusting functions can make changing settings difficult. In bright sunlight, it can be difficult