Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kyle, your post follows my earlier post on a somewhat humorous note, but makes my point. Why go on a vacation, not an assignment, and spend your evenings uploading photos anywhere. Part of the fun of a vacation is to get away from that computer or modem and enjoy those evenings doing something you do not do all year long. It is not so much a digital/film argument as escaping the trappings of instant tech communication. Just because we can take a photo in Egypt at 4PM and transmit it anywhere that evening doesn't mean we should have to do that during a vacation. Perhaps, digital is complicating a process which was really fairly simple and will result in less output not more of high quality. Bob Haight--- Kyle Cassidy <KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu> wrote: > Sam warns: > > >OTOH trusting a 2 week 10K vacation on digital > alone is out of the > >question. YMMV > > The last several times I've been overseas, I've gone > digital only and found > it a lot more reliable than film, at the end of the > day, I uploaded my > images back home, and, if some of you remember my > Egypt trip, I was updating > the lug with photos as I went. No film getting lost, > no x-ray hazards, no > finding out six weeks later that your rangefinder is > out of alignment..... > What I agree with is "trusting an important event to > a single camera is out > of the question" I'd always bring two bodies, but > few leica shooters would > take no backup to a once in a lifetime event > either..... > > I'm surprised nobody's mentioned film in regards to > "I don't want to be > dependent on batteries". While I've never had > batteries go dead on me during > an assignment, I HAVE run out of film. You cant > backup and erase the > screwups to free up more space on film.... And I'm > getting nearly 600 photos > on a microdrive anyway.... > > Just my overrated two cents. > > Kyle > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html