Kathy,
I've been on many a trip slung over with camera equipment. I have a couple of camcorders but wish to leave them home and just have one camera to lug around. The D300s is not exactly light and then there are the lenses. The main thing for me is still pictures but then there are those occasions when you wish you had a movie camera at hand. This is all about our impending trip to Costa Rica. I even bought a netbook to take along instead of a big laptop. Got a new GPS too. I'll be full of mechanical toys.