Weather Resistance

Brave not using a weather proof body:
http://www.photographyblog.com/artic...national_park/

I guess it only creates a problem when the snow melts?

If he works for National Geographic do you think they worry to much
about equipment? If a piece of equipment gets wrecked it's probably
chalked up as part of the expense of doing the article.

Don B wrote:
If he works for National Geographic do you think they worry to much
about equipment? If a piece of equipment gets wrecked it's probably
chalked up as part of the expense of doing the article.

If it gets wrecked before it gets the shot that is needed then it's chalked
up to not getting the article. When you're lugging something up Everest you
really don't want it to crap out 30 feet from the summit--on stuff like that
you don't _get_ a do-over.

J. Clarke wrote:
Don B wrote:
If he works for National Geographic do you think they worry to much
about equipment? If a piece of equipment gets wrecked it's probably
chalked up as part of the expense of doing the article.

If it gets wrecked before it gets the shot that is needed then it's chalked
up to not getting the article. When you're lugging something up Everest you
really don't want it to crap out 30 feet from the summit--on stuff like that
you don't _get_ a do-over.

I don't know about backups if you are going up Everest, but I shot a
recording session that a National Geographic photographer was also
shooting and he had more backup cameras with him then I own. That was
when everyone was pretty much shooting film yet, and he had an assistant
with him that was just loading cameras for him. The way he was going
through film I thought he was going to burn up a motor drive.

On 17-06-09 06:47, Don B wrote:
J. Clarke wrote:
Don B wrote:
If he works for National Geographic do you think they worry to much
about equipment? If a piece of equipment gets wrecked it's probably
chalked up as part of the expense of doing the article.

If it gets wrecked before it gets the shot that is needed then it's
chalked up to not getting the article. When you're lugging something
up Everest you really don't want it to crap out 30 feet from the
summit--on stuff like that you don't _get_ a do-over.
I don't know about backups if you are going up Everest, but I shot a
recording session that a National Geographic photographer was also
shooting and he had more backup cameras with him then I own. That was
when everyone was pretty much shooting film yet, and he had an assistant
with him that was just loading cameras for him. The way he was going
through film I thought he was going to burn up a motor drive.

In the film days the average NatGeo article took 29,000 frames.

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