Do you ever feel like you carry too much camera gear when out practicing landscape photography? A camera bag, a camera body, a trio of lenses, batteries, filters, a tripod, maybe a drone or action cam: it all adds up. This video looks at taking a minimal approach and some of the advantages that it brings.

In this video, Henry Turner heads out into the Lake District with a minimal camera gear setup for an evening of landscape photography. Normally, he is like many of us landscape photographers, heading out with a large camera backpack filled with a variety of camera gear and tripods. 

Turner first looks at the mid-sized hip pack he downsized to for this trip. He then shows the camera equipment he packed, including the Nikon Z30 camera body, a Nikon 24-200mm lens, a circular polarizing filter, and spare batteries he is carrying in the hip pack. 

Turner then covers several of the advantages of not overpacking and taking a minimal approach. Some of the key advantages include better mobility, which allows better movement along the trail and access to gear, all while having less fatigue from carrying a heavy camera backpack. 

Turner utilizes a key camera technique to help facilitate a one-lens setup, which he demonstrates in the video. It is a very handy technique to help reduce the number of lenses a photographer might carry.

As a habitual overpacker, I found the video quite useful, and it has me wanting to try a few landscape photography trips with a minimal camera gear setup.