When you travel, what kind of media recording devices do you use? Digital cameras? Digital video? Do you prefer smaller devices or larger, more technical equipment (and I recognize that there are some small, high quality cameras out there)? Gigantic Betamax video cameras that you don't have the heart to get rid of?
I have some digital cameras that I like, but I also like to take along my Olympus Stylus Epic, probably around ten years old. Uses conventional film and takes wonderful pictures. I am not one to take a million pictures while on vacation, so its unobtrusive size is perfect.
I am curious if most people have totally abandoned film.
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My primary weapon of choice is a Pentax 550 digital camera - it is fairly small, has a nice zoom, and take excellent quality pictures - probably one of the best color management on the market for it's class. Oh, and it is relatively cheap for the features.
For the most part, I have abandoned film. The Pentax is my 3rd digital camera and my favorite, although it was also the cheapest one I have owned. I also have a nice Minolta 35mm SLR, but it is too bulky for trips and you start losing image quality of you try to develop 35mm prints larger than about 5x7. My pentax is 5 megapixels, so I can make decent quality prints at 8x10 for framing.
I haven't gone back to film since I got my Canon digital two years ago. I like everything about the digital except I miss the macro work I used to do with film. Maybe some day I'll be able to afford one of the four figure digitals.
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Nice. I used to do travel sketches but I haven't for a long time.
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We (a group of friends) do a lot of mountain climbing, and rock climbing (there is a difference). I love the end of day sketches, once atop a climb, and the early morning, fresh out of bed, first sight drawings. It is nice, and the older I get, the more I feel a connection with things this way. It just feels more real to me.
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Originally posted by Coriolanus: When you travel, what kind of media recording devices do you use? Digital cameras? Digital video? Do you prefer smaller devices or larger, more technical equipment (and I recognize that there are some small, high quality cameras out there)? Gigantic Betamax video cameras that you don't have the heart to get rid of?
I have some digital cameras that I like, but I also like to take along my Olympus Stylus Epic, probably around ten years old. Uses conventional film and takes wonderful pictures. I am not one to take a million pictures while on vacation, so its unobtrusive size is perfect.
I am curious if most people have totally abandoned film.
...I've just about abandoned "film" but not quite. I think that it makes a very nice back up. I typically travel with a small digital camera made by SONY.
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