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Sunday 10 February 2013

Gadgets which can be the best for travel journalist

By Jean Cox


For some, writing can be a pure joy. It can be even better for those who like traveling. While traveling you get the opportunity to see many things and you can write about that. This is the way by which you can keep yourself busy with all kinds of new information to put on the page.

Pen and papers were needed in the past days. Now most writers do their job on a computer. While that is necessary, most writers have their favorite gadgets they won't do without. These gadgets assist them in their writing. Do you know the name of these gadgets?

A professional writer back up good articles with pictures. A good camera is really necessary for such reasons. Now days, you can find quality digital cameras that take very good pictures for little cost. For doing such jobs a digital camera is really awesome. You don't have to miss any of the picture which needs to illustrate your story clearly.

A good set of binoculars is also necessary. You may need to write about something which may not be close to you. It may be a jaguar or a bear which you normally can't see from close distances.

Considering the place you sometime may need to see things at night. In such cases a hand crank flashlight works very well. In such cases you need something that will be a better alternative of battery sources. The alternative sources work very well and these are cheap as well also last for long time. You may get all the light you need by simply winding the crank for aminute.

Consider a voice recorder. You may in such places where computer is not available. You will not wish to lose your thoughts and views. You might in a location where there is no cell communication so in that case a cell phone is not a worthy thing being capable to do this. A voice recorder is really useful in those cases.

Now writers write on computers but pen and paper is another option . If you are going on a journey, you need a good quality laptop. Battery life is a major consideration to concern about. You can use MacBook Air in such cases and it is recommended by most people. It has excellent battery life. I'm sure there are others that do the same job. Take a laptop which is rugged enough to go where you go. You may use a tablet computer as an alternative. It's longer battery life and carrying facility inspires us to use it.

When you are on the road you have to keep it in mind that you backup. You don't want to spend hours working up that perfect description only to lose it for some reason. A portable hard disk can take care of this problem. The winning over of travel writer can be taken by getting a portable hard disk which is rugged. You can get this with a very reasonable price.

When going for a journey you need to take the necessary things to make a perfect story and to meet the deadline. Taking along your favorite gadgets, makes that chore that much easier.




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