Very nice, Duncan.
How good are photobox, and what res do they print at? Do they ship world wide?
What kit do you use and what is the kit weight for back-backing?
Cheers, much appreciated....
So far I haven't received any complaints about Image quality and the large prints I have had done for myself (20x16 and 30x20 inch prints) have all been good, can't complain. In the future I will probably move to selling images direct rather than through a third party but I have to build the shopping cart etc first. I always set my images to 300 DPI and upload jpgs converted from tiffs at quality 10-12 so they meet the conditions below. I use a Canon 5d mkii so there are times when I scale the images down a touch because the jpgs have exceeded 20mb.
Photobox Image conditions (taken from their website)"If you're wondering the maximum image size, currently we don't have an upper limit for upload but we strongly recommend that you upload files no larger than 10Mb and that to optimise the time taken to upload, 5Mb is more than sufficient for most of our products."
worldwide delivery prices -
http://www.photobox.co.uk/content/delivery-information-worldwideEuropean delivery prices -
http://www.photobox.co.uk/content/delivery-information-EU The gear I carry tends to be the same no matter where I go, I have listed it all below. Because of what I do I don't always carry a tripod, more often than not I do but if i'm out climbing it is not really practical.
Camera - Canon 5D mkii (810g)
Lenses - Canon 17-40L (500g), Canon 100-400L (1363g) & Canon 50mm f/1.8 (130g)
Cotton Carrier chest harness (looks silly but it means your camera and 100-400 is instantly available to use)
Filters - 1 set of soft ND Grads and 1 set of hard ND Grads, 1x 4 stop ND & Lee's Big Stopper. Polarising & UV filter
Tripod - Slik PRO 614 CF (860g) lightweight landscape head (150g)
Spare batteries, remote timer and a few other odds and sods
total camera gear - probably just over 4kgs
Tent back packing probably talking about a 20kg or more pack weight with water and stuff, winter climbing treks probably the same amount and as little as 10kgs when pottering around the mountains. To be honest I don't really notice the weight anymore, the more you carry it the easier it gets. If you carry it one day then don't bother for a while and go back to a heavy pack then you feel it.... carry it all the time and your body adapts.
Hope this answers your questions but if you want to know anything else just let me know.
Ta
Duncan