What to bring for a conference: Video camera or photo camera
In terms of quality the best thing to do for documentation is to bring your big SLR, your big HD video recorder, your big audio field recorder, microphones, tripods, etc. But when going to a conference on the other side of the world, carrying stuff around for 14 hours per day and moving between rooms every 30 minutes, this isn’t going to happen. So what to bring for documentation? Its a long time ago since I gave up on doing pure audio recordings during conferences. I just never listen to the things I record, mainly because it is too painful to sort out what the different files are. It is just much easier with something visual that you can browse through. Hence if I want to record audio, I record a video to have some visuals to go along with it. The audio result is usually not very good, but having something is better than having nothing. ...