PRACTICE with the camera at home, before you leave...go out and shoot in low light, early and late in the day, and see for yourself how the metering works,and what the images look like. Before the trip, please, before the trip, do at least five test sessions, so you've got a handle on the camera. There's nothing worse than buying a camera, getting "there", and not knowing how to use the doggone camera. (Ask me how I know this!!!)
Read some reviews of the camera; at times, the comments from an experienced reviewer can help a buyer narrow down to the areas and issues of poor performance or oddities of performance that are specific to a specific camra model. The Fuji S2 Pro was an example: worked FINE in JPEG capture mode, until very late in the day, when the AUTO White Balance could go massively astray and create incredibly chalky and cartoon-like colors on SOOC JPEG captures; I read that comment in a review and thought, "naw...nope, not true..." and then one summer night, about a half hour before dark, the AUTO White Balance lead to some _incredibly poor_, ridiculous, cartoon-like colors...most,most unusual, and something I had never seen before or since. Still, it was something I had read in a review, and it was good to know that, as twilight approached, that the AUTO WB was not to be trusted.
Speaking of which...late in the afternoon, I like a Custom, pre-established White Balance...this is something that can be done on the scene, or, failing a Custom WB, one can dial in a pre-set kelvin WB in the 6700-degrees Kelvin area, in general, for late,late afternoon/early evening shooting.
Anyway...have fun, and take PLENTY of memory cards!!!! Cards are cheap...air fair and safari fees are not cheap...have a metric tonne of memory cards with you!
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