JustinAide

Hey there, I'd like to start by saying how amazing your trip sounds! I recently did a very similar trip with my wife, 11 months through Asia and NZ (we are from Australia) and always getting motorbikes in pretty much every town we went to (we rode from HCMC to Hanoi and up to the border of China and Vietnam on a bike we bought there too). It was an incredible trip that you will really enjoy! During the trip we went through countless downpours, rode on dirt roads, 40 degree temperatures to negative temperature in Japan. All that time I had the X-Pro1 (not weather sealed), 14mm, 35mm and 55-230mm and the fuji EF-42 flash (which I didn't use once). The only change to this came late in the trip where I bought a 10-24 as I just found myself limited by the 14mm at the wide end (I like to shoot WIDE haha) I found this combo to be perfect for what I wanted, the 14mm and 35mm were my staples and I swapped between them for 95% of the trip. I only used the 55-230 for specific things such as shooting some surf shots and a few other things. I feel like a single camera body with 3 lenses would be more than enough for you on the trip, weather sealing would be nice but having been there and done that, I can say it isn't a must. The little EF-8 flash that comes with the X-T1 would be handy to have in times when you need a small flash (the EF-42 was just too big for me to bother with it) If it was me, I'm not sure on prices there, but I'd try and get: X-T1 or X-T10 whatever suits the budget 10-24mm for landscape and to have on when riding 35mm for low light and general street shots 55-230mm (the cheap one) just for that extra bit of reach Those along with 1 or 2 16gb cards, 4 or so batteries (charging can only be done so often sometimes) I think would be the perfect travel kit (for me anyway haha) You can take a look at my shots from the trip at http://www.jaidephotography.com/gallery.html Also if you like you can read our travel blogs and country guides at http://newlynomads.weebly.com If you have any questions on countries you want to ask I'd be stoked to help you so just send me a message! Justin