Equipment	I have a confession to make: I brought along a laptop on my honeymoon. Now I assure you that it's really not what it seems! I didn't log onto the internet even once! I brought along Midori's laptop computer because it had something I really needed on our honeymoon: about 1GB of free hard disk space. Midori and I had decided to go completely "Digital" for the honeymoon, meaning using the digital camcorder and digital camera we had purchased for our wedding (my humble apologies to the Eastman Kodak Company).
Whereas all we needed to bring for the digital camcorder was some extra tapes, the digital camera was a different story. In order to take pictures with a digital camera you need RAM. Lots of RAM. The problem is that for my camera 64MB of RAM costs about $125., and this is good for about 80 pictures. (Approximately 800KB per digital photograph) You can use RAM over and over again if you dump the pictures somewhere else. Consequently, for us to be able to use the camera without worrying about buying more RAM, we brought the laptop (and cables, and adapters, voltage converter, spare batteries, chargers, etc.) along for the ride. BUT this allowed me to play with the camera to my heart's content (...and Midori's dismay).
The consequence of this was that I took about 80 pictures per day which I later culled down to some 551 frames, and from these I selected about 140 for our online album.
A special piece of equipment I brought along was an underwater housing for use with my digital camera. This housing let us take photos of all the undersea world when we went diving at Tulamben in the north of Bali. A word about digital cameras underwater: they have their quirks. First of all, there is a lag between pressing the shutter and taking the picture. The consequence is that we took many pictures of the tails of fishes that had "high tailed" it out of our way as we tried to photograph them. The second thing was the "auto white balance" didn't have a setting for "blue" light instead of "white". Consequently the camera was constantly second-guessing what we were trying to do. Next time we will have had some practice and we should get a better set of shots.