Photography & Traveling

Traveling and photography will always be my favorite things to do. I am currently in Cebu and loving it; this is my ‘motherland’ - I was born here and visit maybe once a year or every other year.

Being somewhere you’ve never been to or even a place you’ve visited once or twice is enough to make even the amateur pull out a camera and take a photo or two.

Barring all the other hassles during traveling, i.e., missing a stop, missing a train or plane, and all the ‘normal’ stuff that we go through during traveling, the one thing we don’t want is to fall victim to theft. If you have your gear with you, we certainly don’t want our gear to disappear.

I have opted for AirTags and tile trackers to keep track of my stuff. It’s in all my check-in and carry-on bags and my backpack. But what do you do when it's just the camera? I just found out, and it's been out for quite some time, but Small Rig has a way for you to place an AirTag on your camera itself. If you’re like me, you already have a Smallrig cage on your cam, so it's not a problem.

Before the AirTag in the SmallRig attached to a camera solution, there was no way to ‘track’ your cam if it was taken out of your bag and you were ‘SOL.’ My wish is that if the cameras can imprint a GeoTag on your photos, wouldn’t it then stand to reason that that tech could be used to ‘trace’ your camera if it was ‘misplaced’?

It may be a different tech, but perhaps one day, this too shall happen. I’m hopeful. In the meantime, the small AirTag rig is the best alternative for now to protect your gear while traveling.