Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina are you talking about Pelicans? Or bags? It's gotta be good to have a flotation device near you at all times. The seat you sit on in the airplane a comforting example. Perhaps they should come out with a line of camera bags which look like airplane seat cushions! In those colors!! On 1/5/14 11:34 AM, "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote: > I used dry bags in Central America often when traveling in canoes in > the Mosquito Coast. The only problem with them that I had was that they > not only seal water out, they seal water in. In the very high humidity of > the Mosquito Coast, anything packed in the bag ended up completely soaked. > Somewhere I have a photo of all of my traveler's checks and passport > laidout > to dry by the fire in the school building. My Leica's dried by the same fire. > At home I have a whole dry-bag full of film that was never exposed because it > got wet and ruined inside the bag. It's still there. The only reason I > continued to use them was if the bag was accidentally dropped over the side of > the canoe, it would at least float!! Tina On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 7:16 AM, > Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>wrote: > Mark Rabiner wrote: > > > >This one in some ways funnier. > >http://vimeo.com/69173697 > > > >Or the > concise: > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgO5EWq9WQ8 > > > >No ones seen > anyone yet go "look there's a picture I better grab my > >camera!" And open > the bag and do so. Yet. > >As those ducks would have migrated all the way > south by then. > > Apparently not the bag for you. I'd love to use a dry bag > like this in > rough water. I'd open it to use the camera in calm water? and > I plan my > duck photos, often taking several hours to make the photo. > Getting the > camera out of the bag in 10 seconds or less is not a high > priority for me > because it takes time to work out lighting & backgrounds, > the duck's habits > and preferences, and allowing the duck to become > comfortable in my > presence. Good wildlife photos are not point & shoot. > > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina > Manley http:// > <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com __________________ > _____________________________ Leica Users Group. See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/