What to pack in your camera bag for a photo trip
Fewer lenses, more photos: the list I’ve used for ten years, updated.
Stefano Tiozzo•August 27, 2026
The perfect bag is the one you forget you’re carrying. After years of travelling with too much stuff, I’ve settled on a short list.
The bare essentials
- One camera body and a versatile zoom (24-70 or similar)
- A light telephoto for details and distant portraits
- A polariser and a 6-stop ND filter
- Two memory cards and a hard drive for the evening backup
What I stopped packing
The “just in case” second body and the collection of primes. I never used them, and I carried them every day.
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