honk checklist for photographers/videographers

HONK! personal barebones checklist for video/photographers

- Ear plugs
- Gift for host if staying at a place.
- Camera
- Enough battery power to last a full day of continuous shooting.
- AC charging cable for that camera.
- Monopod
- Camera baseplate for that monopod!!
- SD cards, all your fastest and highest capacity cards you have available, formatted.
- SD card-USB adapter
- Smartphone (with all your camera workflow apps on it).
** A smartphone with usb otg is recommended now that it can connect directly to cameras and stuff.
- (optional, only if you have a smartphone with usb otg, and there for more than a day) a usb flash drive.
- WiFi hotspot

- Portable 5V USB battery fully-charged.
- USB charge/synch cable for the phone
** samsung phones don't seem to charge up on my 5v battery (I'm using a ravpower battery and the usb synch cable that comes with phone).  what happens is the cable must have the data +/- pins shorted together in order for the phone to begin charging.  you can buy usb charge-only cables from mediabridgeproducts.com

- USB charge-only cable (you can buy this from mediabridgeproducts.com)
- 5V AC USB adapter.

- Pocket-sized voice recorder
- (optional) Two extra 2AAA batteries for recorder.  Recommend olympus voice recorders as they run forever on just 2 aaa batteries.
- (optional) lavalier mic
- (optional) 1/8" audio cable + barrel coupling

- Velcro strips
- Safety pin
- Paper clip

- Wind jacket/rain shell
- (optional) Sunglasses
- Hand towel
- Some extra clothing
** check weather forecast
- Minimal toiletries (sliver of soap, toothbrush, some toothpaste)

- Water for the trip, and during the day
- Snacks for the trip, and during the day.  no crif bars, kind bars are better.
- (optional) Ear buds, book for the trip, etc.

- Tickets
- Map of venue locations printed on paper
- Map of host locations printed on paper
- Maps of above stored on phone
- Contact numbers
- official schedule of the day
- YOUR personal schedule for the day
- MBTA Charlie card

- address, maps of places that may be useful, e.g., shaws supermarket in porter square.