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The pictures you never took
I'm an avid hobbiest, but not so avid as to carry a camera everywhere or to
drop everything and go get one when I see a perfect picture. I regret some of those occasions though. For 25 years, I commuted across the Illinois landscape to a job in the suburbs of Chicago, and most days drove past a fantastic Oak tree with an upper branch poised like the fingers of an hand read to snatch the somewhat faded farm house it stood in front of. I saw the photographic possibilities from the start. I must have taken that picture 100 times in my mind -- against a brilliantly colored sunrise in winter. Against looming thunder clouds and green fields in summer. With a hawk perched on the branch and flowers below it in the spring. Against a mist shrouded landscape in the fall. Alas, I never took it with a camera, and regretted it several years back when the tree died. The golf course I play regularly has a wonderful row of maples that every year for 2 or 3 days in October explode in shades of red, orange and green as the frost touches the outermost leaves first while the rest of the tree remains green. Every year I notice the wonderful sight, but never have my camera to capture these trees against the brilliant blue skies. The perfect day was yesterday, and this year, being semi-retired, I vowed I go out Monday and take the shot. Alas, a cold front robbed the trees of their most colorful leaves last night. Maybe next year. So, folks, my advice is to get those perfect shots while you can and not wait for next year or tomorrow to get the camera. -- Warren Montgomery ( http://home.att.net/~wamontgomery ) |
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The pictures you never took
Good advice, well put.
One way you might deal with this dilemma is to try to find a pocketable camera you can live with, and keep it in the inside chest pocket of your coat at all times. I have been through quite a number of different models trying to find one that offers the right combination of features (e.g. size, weight, durability, manual control, etc.) I haven't found my ideal camera for this purpose yet, but in the meantime I've been getting plenty of shots I would have otherwise missed. Carpe diem, baby! -Chris- |
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The pictures you never took
ChrisPlatt wrote:
Good advice, well put. One way you might deal with this dilemma is to try to find a pocketable camera you can live with, old rangefinders are really good for this purpose and keep it in the inside chest pocket of your coat at all times. or glove compartment or trunk of your car - or even briefcase or pocketbook (purse to those not living in New England). I have been through quite a number of different models trying to find one that offers the right combination of features (e.g. size, weight, durability, manual control, etc.) I haven't found my ideal camera for this purpose yet, but in the meantime I've been getting plenty of shots I would have otherwise missed. Carpe diem, baby! -Chris- I try to keep a camera bag in my trunk to have a camera wherever I go. Usually, it is a 35 mm SLR with a couple of lenses. This does not have to be your No. 1 camera. I acquired an old Minolta with wide-angle and telephoto screw-ons a few years ago for $25. It has done this duty quite well. Francis A. Miniter |
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The pictures you never took
One way you might deal with this dilemma is to try to find a pocketable camera you can live with, old rangefinders are really good for this purpose Funny, I was thinking the opposite direction -- compact digitals. One trouble with this is you need film, and it's usually got to be something pretty forgiving because you don't know what you are loading it for. The "just in case" camera also usually sits around a while before you shoot a role. (I've used a couple of small 35mms for this purpose but not for the two situations I described.) I try to keep a camera bag in my trunk to have a camera wherever I go. Usually, it is a 35 mm SLR with a couple of lenses. This does not have to be your No. 1 camera. I acquired an old Minolta with wide-angle and telephoto screw-ons a few years ago for $25. It has done this duty quite well. An interesting idea. One reason I had a hard time taking the tree shot was that my employer didn't let people take cameras on premesis, which meant leaving it in the car, something I wasn't keen on with my primary gear. If you are like me chances are you have an old body or two and some cheap lenses that fit them already that aren't in your primary camera kit. A worse problem though is simply that even in a Northern climate like Illinois, anything you leave in the car on a sunny day gets cooked. Again I would think keeping the film fresh would be a limitation. -- Warren Montgomery ( http://home.att.net/~wamontgomery ) |
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The pictures you never took
One way you might deal with this dilemma is to
try to find a pocketable camera you can live with, old rangefinders are really good for this purpose Funny, I was thinking the opposite direction -- compact digitals. One trouble with this is you need film, and it's usually got to be something pretty forgiving because you don't know what you are loading it for. The "just in case" camera also usually sits around a while before you shoot a role. On the other hand, * a digital camera may run out of battery charge just at the moment you need it. * an inexpensive 2 Mpix digicam might not deliver the dream shot you wanted, due to low resolution and digital noise. A compact film camera loaded with quality film still surpasses a digicam for "just in case" shots IMHO. Changing to a fresh film regularly should not be a big issue. I have this dilemma too, having recently upgraded to a dslr. Very good pictures, but boy it's heavy to tote around. Should I shell out further $$$$ for a pocket digicam or buy an inexpensive high quality film pocket cam (such as the mju-2 or the Ricoh whateveritwas). My $0.02 Nils |
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The pictures you never took
FWIW, I carry an older P/S film camera (Olympus Stylus) as I bike to class
(U of Winnipeg). It's small and very lightweight and the resulting photos are quite acceptable. It cost me less than C$100 about 10 years ago, so monetary risk is very low as well. I prefer to keep it loaded with Ilford HP5. Fast enough to handle low light. Decent enough that photos don't look like newpaper pictures. Cheap enough for a student's budget. B/W, so I can process the film myself and then scan the negatives into my personal confuser (PC). Prior to the Stylus, I had a Rollei 35. Rather quirky but nice photos. It died an untimely death due when a planet jumped into its path. There's not a lot of nature to photograph on my ride into/out of downtown Winnipeg, but there are interesting sights along the way. |
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The pictures you never took
I've been using a Yashica T4 Super for this purpose. Even though it's a
fixed-focal lens camera, the lens is spectacular and takes pictures that easily rival my Nikon lenses. "Michael Scarpitti" wrote in message m... (ChrisPlatt) wrote in message ... Good advice, well put. One way you might deal with this dilemma is to try to find a pocketable camera you can live with, and keep it in the inside chest pocket of your coat at all times. I have been through quite a number of different models trying to find one that offers the right combination of features (e.g. size, weight, durability, manual control, etc.) I haven't found my ideal camera for this purpose yet, but in the meantime I've been getting plenty of shots I would have otherwise missed. Carpe diem, baby! -Chris- How about the Leica Minilux? |
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The pictures you never took
Zero-Knowledge MIME Encapsulated Message --------------090908020600050802030203 Content-Type: text/plain; format = "flowed" ; charset = "us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I used to live in the outskirts of Winnipeg ... Charleswood to be precise ... if I lived there today I'd take my camera out to the Assiniboine Forest ie adjacent to the Tuxedo Golf Course (where Grant Ave meets Chalfont Rd I believe) and get some fall nature photo's of the Poplar, Oak and Maple trees and the birds that call that area home ... or ... I'd take the road/highway that follows the very scenic West side of the Red River out to Lockport and return along the East side ... Jeff wrote: FWIW, I carry an older P/S film camera (Olympus Stylus) as I bike to class (U of Winnipeg). It's small and very lightweight and the resulting photos are quite acceptable. It cost me less than C$100 about 10 years ago, so monetary risk is very low as well. I prefer to keep it loaded with Ilford HP5. Fast enough to handle low light. Decent enough that photos don't look like newpaper pictures. Cheap enough for a student's budget. B/W, so I can process the film myself and then scan the negatives into my personal confuser (PC). Prior to the Stylus, I had a Rollei 35. Rather quirky but nice photos. It died an untimely death due when a planet jumped into its path. There's not a lot of nature to photograph on my ride into/out of downtown Winnipeg, but there are interesting sights along the way. --------------090908020600050802030203 Content-Type: text/html; charset = "us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" html head meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" title/title /head body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff" font size="+1"br br I used to live in the outskirts of Winnipeg ... Charleswood to be precise ... if I lived there today I'd take my camera out to the Assiniboine Forest ie adjacent to the Tuxedo Golf Course (where Grant Ave meets Chalfont Rd I believe) and get some fall nature photo's of the Poplar, Oak and Maple trees and the birds that call that area home .... or ...br I'd take the road/highway that follows the very scenic West side of the Red River out to Lockport and return along the East side ...br br /fontbr Jeff wrote:br blockquote type="cite" " pre wrap=""FWIW, I carry an older P/S film camera (Olympus Stylus) as I bike to class (U of Winnipeg). It's small and very lightweight and the resulting photos are quite acceptable. It cost me less than C$100 about 10 years ago, so monetary risk is very low as well. I prefer to keep it loaded with Ilford HP5. Fast enough to handle low light. Decent enough that photos don't look like newpaper pictures. Cheap enough for a student's budget. B/W, so I can process the film myself and then scan the negatives into my personal confuser (PC). Prior to the Stylus, I had a Rollei 35. Rather quirky but nice photos. It died an untimely death due when a planet jumped into its path. There's not a lot of nature to photograph on my ride into/out of downtown Winnipeg, but there are interesting sights along the way. /pre /blockquote /body /html --------------090908020600050802030203-- |
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The pictures you never took
Actually, if you're a Canada goose lover, this has been a great year. There
are still thousands of the silly things in transit to southern climes. Through the spring and summer, the local golf courses were flooded with geese and goslings. The ones on the golf courses seemed to get quite used to people. Great for photographs but probably not for the long-term survival of those particular geese. The leaves are mostly gone by now. Apparently they are all on my lawn. Let me put in an OT plug for Winnipeg. If you like photographing ducks, geese, etc, Winnipeg is marvelous in September. We're 30 minutes from Oak Hammock Marsh, a major sanctuary on the migratory path. Within city limits is Fort Whyte Centre, a massive sanctuary for all kinds of birds (lots of birds year round). Plenty of other activities to keep you busy. "Fred II" wrote in message news:hXMjb.26938$S_.2341@clgrps13... I used to live in the outskirts of Winnipeg ... Charleswood to be precise .... if I lived there today I'd take my camera out to the Assiniboine Forest ie adjacent to the Tuxedo Golf Course (where Grant Ave meets Chalfont Rd I believe) and get some fall nature photo's of the Poplar, Oak and Maple trees and the birds that call that area home ... or ... I'd take the road/highway that follows the very scenic West side of the Red River out to Lockport and return along the East side ... Jeff wrote: FWIW, I carry an older P/S film camera (Olympus Stylus) as I bike to class (U of Winnipeg). It's small and very lightweight and the resulting photos are quite acceptable. It cost me less than C$100 about 10 years ago, so monetary risk is very low as well. I prefer to keep it loaded with Ilford HP5. Fast enough to handle low light. Decent enough that photos don't look like newpaper pictures. Cheap enough for a student's budget. B/W, so I can process the film myself and then scan the negatives into my personal confuser (PC). Prior to the Stylus, I had a Rollei 35. Rather quirky but nice photos. It died an untimely death due when a planet jumped into its path. There's not a lot of nature to photograph on my ride into/out of downtown Winnipeg, but there are interesting sights along the way. |
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