For the dedicated ultralight backpacker, photography has always been something of a burden. You spend hours and hours working out ways to shave grams from the weight of your shelter and clothing, cutting off labels and extraneous pieces of cotton, repackaging food, and carefully weighing spoons in order to find the lightest one. And then, having finally got your pack down to sub 6kg levels, you grab your 1.2kg of (minimised) camera equipment and curse the day you picked up your first instamatic and pushed the button on a slippery slope towards ultra heavy image perfection.
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