Australia from Four Cameras - (1 of 4)

It's the biggest question I face when I get ready to take a trip - which cameras are coming along? For my trip to Australia, I ended up packing four cameras, four lenses, and 38GB of memory cards. Each camera served its own unique purpose, and I gave all of them almost equal use.

• Olympus FE-170

This camera was put to market in 2006, making it the oldest of my crew. I found it on eBay for under $100 back in 2007, so you could probably put 50 cents in a vending machine to get one today. It's a small 6 megapixel point and shoot, with 38-114mm (equivalent) zoom. By today's standards, it is very limited in image quality, but it has something none of my other cameras did - an element of "disposability."At 4.4 oz, and with only two buttons I needed to press, it is exactly what I needed to carry while running the Sydney Half Marathon. I didn't care if sweat was seeping into the buttons, I wouldn't have been heartbroken if I dropped it. I had already tested its durability - It also traveled with me to China several years ago, and ended up shooting some of my favorite images of a camping trip in the desert.