> Last year I trecked for 2 weeks in Nepal and carried my N1 with the 24-85, my backpack and no porter. The pictures are good if probably not Leica M quality. The burden is considerable but having only one lense to deal with was very good, the film is easy to change and all the automatic features garantee virtually no bad pictures even though i had very little time in the tight schedule of the treck to stop to shoot. I carried a small dedicated flash with it and shot AGFA profesional 400 ASA. I will take it again on my nest treck. Need extra batteries. Ricardo Gonzalez >