5 Aug
2005
5 Aug
'05
6:42 a.m.
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 08:14 -0500, John Foust wrote:
At 06:58 AM 8/5/2005, you wrote:
I'm talking about proper travelling though where you might see a
backwater shop once every couple of weeks though. They won't do new-
fangled CF cards, but they do tend to do 35mm film :-)
but with digital
you have to worry about being able to recharge the camera batteries,
finding somewhere to download data off the camera every so often (or
take enough CF cards with you to cover the amount of photos you're
likely to take) etc.
Ye gods. I get about 500 pictures on a $100 1 gig CF with a 8 megapix
Nikon. Sometimes I can shoot that many on a single charge. How much
space and money is consumed by 14 rolls of 36 exposure 35mm? Next time
you look for film, look for memory cards. They're there, too. You like analog cameras and lots of pictures? Great,
take one
along with your digital.
Yep, that's what I've done in the past - but if I'm out trekking I'm
limited to what I can carry on my back, so having to take more than one
camera is annoying!
(to be fair, modern digitals are pretty amazing on the battery front -
it's quite surprising how long they'll last on a single charge. I should
still carry a second charged battery about just in case though...)
cheers
J.