You're just in time to grab the new firmware update, Gromit.

Battery use has been improved, which is handy.

http://www.vrhotwires.com/Bill...ovies/VFMS/VFMS.html

so in 6 and 20 I blow out a waterfall. Even on blue sky days the sky looks white? I'm going to try again with the new hdr feature.

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Originally posted by lithos:
You're just in time to grab the new firmware update, Gromit.

Cool, thanks.

Just remember, the only way to violate your warranty when updating the firmware is to not have fully charged batteries in the camera. Not "I only took a dozen shots with them" batteries. Fully charged.

There's a very, very, very good reason for that - unless you like camera-shaped bricks. Make sure you put the update onto a card that's been formatted in the camera, too.

Domo arigato, sensei.

Jesus H. Christ-with-his-hair-backlit-by-a-snoot!

Lookit this, wilya just lookit it!?
DIY Kodachrome

Guy built his own machine to make film. I can't fackin' believe it.

...'Course, y'know, back in the day the dude would go inside his light-tight tent and paint emulsion onto glass plates, etc. Wow. See what a good set of power tools and some serious mechanical engineering can do?

I think this goes here.


I have two digital cameras, not including the cellphone (because...really...), one is a Fuji F20 (or something) a point and shoot, which rides around in my backpack. The other is a Canon 20d (D20?) DSLR w. the kit lens. It's a little large to carry about constantly.

Which is my question.

What do ya'll folks carry about with you on the daily?

How do you carry it? (bag, round the neck, etc)

How large is it? Lens choices?

I miss a lot of shots due to inaccessibility or inconvenience of gear, which is inevitable to some degree (inconvenience), but am wondering if ya'll here have any general tips (as I see a lot of hardware in the restroom project thread for instance (and this town has some terrible-awesome bathrooms worth documenting)) for how to go about having a reasonable ready-access continual-cam on my person.

Or am I just catching the bits of actual photog trips and I should just make more time for snapping pix?

Carry the SLR everywhere. Put your arm and head through the strap, and even if you're not using it, leave it hanging 'round yer neck. Get used to it always being there. I had to do this when I was working in the Caribbean due to pure logistics but once I got used to it always being there I never missed a shot..

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
Carry the SLR everywhere. Put your arm and head through the strap, and even if you're not using it, leave it hanging 'round yer neck. Get used to it always being there. I had to do this when I was working in the Caribbean due to pure logistics but once I got used to it always being there I never missed a shot..

That's...probably fair.

Lens suggestion for such a set up?

Seems like a nice fast prime would be useful, can zoom\crop in digital later most of the time, yes?

thx!

The lens I use most is a 1:35 - 4.5 35/70 Macro/Micro... Odd lens from a bygone era. What ever you feel comfortable with and can afford.

I take my DSLR, usually with an 18-250mm zoom on it, wherever I can. There are places, such as work, where I can't haul that rig and for those I always have a p&s in a belt pouch. So far the only places I couldn't take any camera were a courtroom and an operating room.

I just couldn't lug a DSLR around once I had the monster and all his stuff to cope with too.. So I've downgraded (I guess) to the new micro fourthrids format. Much smaller cameras, but all the control of a DSLR (though I jumped into the format a little quickly and have ended up with a camera without a view finder, which I kick myself about daily). I'm finding it MUCH more friendly to being taken out and about. I generally just have the 34mm prime lens on there, as I love prime lenses.. I need to get my arse into gear and sell some stuff I hve saved up on ebay to I can buy a nice case for it so I'm happier just throwing it in my bag

Film SLR. Almost always. Two or three films, f1.8/50 and 1:3.5-4.8/35-70. Flash and lightmeter. In a bag in my backpack. I'm not exactly shooting from the hip.

For the moment, i'm carrying nothing with me as the only camera that has currently film in it is the SLR, which is a bit clunky (and i'm currently reading a Stephenson book, so it comes down to reading on the train, or carrying the camera; i chose reading).

Normally though, i carry with me an Olympus XA. That camera is so tiny that it fits in a pocket. It's not the most high-end camera of course, but it is well designed and the results of it are good enough.

When i do carry an SLR, it's usually in a hip-bag where i can access it fast, or in some cases around my neck. I tend to use two lenses: a 50mm (1.7) and a 24mm (2.8). So there's one on the camera and one seperate. They're fairly small lenses, and suit my uses perfectly. All in all it is not too cumbersome.

When i go all out i have a big camera bag that (only just) hold all my camera's, films and other accessories, so i can choose from the wide range of gear according to situation. It contains:

Two Minolta SLR bodies (the newer generation with autofocus), with a 24 (2.8), 50 (1.7) and 135mm (2.8) lens and a flash and extra battery pack/grip. A Yashica 35 Electro GSN rangefinder, a Zenit Horizon 202 and a small pinhole camera.

So there you go.

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Thanks ya'll...good stuff. :-)

That Olympus XA link is jiggered because they won't let you link to it. But you can find it from the index.

I love the XA - I have four of them mainly because they are so absurdly underpriced that when I see one in a junk shop for next to no money I can't leave it there. (Plus I have lost at least three of them. They are so small it's easy for them to get left behind, curses.)

Get yourself one!

The XA site that has everything you need to know: diaxa.com

I have a hankering for a film SLR! The day had to come eventually..

I'm thinking of Olympus OM1 or OM2 (OM2 appeals as it came out the year I was born!).. I can get an OM convertor for my Pen, so I can share lenses..

A good read... I'm a Photographer, Not a Terrorist.