Digital Cameras in Europe - how?

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(David Horne) wrote:

... I'm hard pressed to come up with some friends offhand
who don't own a DVD and a TV.

I've never seen anyone show photos on a TV set, although it's obviously
quite possible and feasible technically.

That's a different comment. I'm addressing the point you made about
having to lug around a TV and DVD if you wanted to show pitures that
way! I'd imagine that people showing pictures on a TV set are very much
in a minority, but that's the kind of thing that could possibly change-
I can't really tell.

I have a Sony XBR with a memory card slot. Has nice slide show features
with piano music accompaniment.

With a computer with Mac OS X, you can import it and iPhoto also has
slide show features. But the screen saver that comes with the OS will
cycle through all the pictures in a directory that you choose and it
also scales them, making them appear to zoom in and then dissolves to
the next picture. Quite a nice effect.

Following up to Jeremy Henderson

Two questions, one argumentative the other not (!)

Do you enjoy looking at the photos with your friend of your day out in the
hills?

Not much, I find video makes for a much more fun record of the
day, that can be fun watching in the evening, especially when the
weather has been wild. I have often shot unaimed on wide angle
when the going gets tough, its an effort but can make great
watching. I always tried to "interview" everyone if we decided to
turn back, I have one of myself explaining the wind on the ridge
was too much unaware of icicles hanging from my moustache!
However, the camera broke as most complex machines do and I
decided that it was (a) too big a lump in my rucksack and (b) it
was stopping me concentrating on stills, the two approaches being
very different so I don't do that now.

How, as a matter of interest, do you share your photos with your friend?
Suppose he shows up in a few months and says "remember that trip to the
Lakes - let's look at the photos you took", how do you respond?

I might show him my set of Lakes slides, probably on the PC,
possibly slides with music playing and point out shots taken on
that trip if there were any. Usually there are not. My objective
with photos is to eventually have a set of images that record the
beauty of the Lake district in all its moods, I don't take shots
of "Carol on top of Scafell Pike" or general record shots and I
don't feel the need for a big pile of snapshots of where i have
been. If I visit a place I often don't even take a camera at all
as it can get in the way of enjoying the place and just buy
either some good postcards or a book if I want a momento (done by
a photographer who has put the time and effort in to get a set of
worthwhile shots).
One trip I did take "snaps" was walking the Thames path as I had
decided it would be worth doing a web page as it could be of
interest to others, I have since been back several times to fill
in shots and retake shots in better conditions. This process
gives me a lot of pleasure, no doubt i'm not typical but I really
get little pleasure from snaps. I would rather look at a map!
Snaps and instant digital also get in the way of exaggeration in
the pub afterwards.
--
Mike Reid
Drinking the Thames path "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/thames.htm"