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Storage of photos whilst travelling?
Jeremy Henderson writes:
Before you leave the church/firework display/whatever? Before you take a flight. The only real danger to film is from x-ray scanners. You can safely assume that any film exposed will produce pictures. And suppose you use prepaid mailers? In a foreign country? -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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Storage of photos whilst travelling?
Terryo wrote:
I have withheld buying a digital camera for this very reason (and some others). But now I see there are devices on the market that you can use to download and store images; they are essentially portable, hand-held hard drives, and I think they have up to 2 gigabyte capacity. Of course, it's one more thing to pack and take with you, but it seems a reasonable solution. Certainly much more reasonable than lugging a laptop around with you, which has been a common solution until now. Now, if you have other reasons for taking your laptop along, fine, but just to keep pictures on ...? |
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Jeremy Henderson writes:
The danger I'm talking about is that you didn't expose the scene correctly at the time - something that is easily checked with a digital, and impossible with film. If you have even a modicum of familiarity with the principles of photography and a decent camera, you'll get correct exposure. Additionally, some consumer films, such as Kodak Max, have such a wide latitude that you can expose almost randomly and still get usable images. Furthermore, for a typical traveler's budget, you can get a better film camera than digital camera. A better camera will have more accurate and adjustable exposure controls. Digital (or film) is no good if the camera refuses to expose correctly and you can't do anything about it, which is the case for most point-and-shoot cameras. Sure, digital will let you see the mistake, but you still won't be able to get correct exposure. A more evolved SLR will allow you to get the right exposure, but the price of such an SLR with digital capture will be easily five to ten times higher than that of a film SLR. Exactly my point - if you buy prepaid film you don't have the option of processing it abroad without paying extra. Apart from Kodachrome, who ever buys prepaid film these days? -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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Storage of photos whilst travelling?
Mxsmanic wrote:
Jeremy Henderson writes: The danger I'm talking about is that you didn't expose the scene correctly at the time - something that is easily checked with a digital, and impossible with film. If you have even a modicum of familiarity with the principles of photography and a decent camera, you'll get correct exposure. I had an SLR that developed a slightly sticky shutter midway into the first roll of film on a long trip. When I got back and developed my film, the left two-thirds of every photo was overexposed. Furthermore, for a typical traveler's budget, you can get a better film camera than digital camera. A better camera will have more accurate and adjustable exposure controls. Digital (or film) is no good if the camera refuses to expose correctly and you can't do anything about it, which is the case for most point-and-shoot cameras. Sure, digital will let you see the mistake, but you still won't be able to get correct exposure. A more evolved SLR will allow you to get the right exposure, but the price of such an SLR with digital capture will be easily five to ten times higher than that of a film SLR. It doesn't cost that much these days to get a digital with manual exposure controls. miguel -- See the world from your web browser: http://travel.u.nu/ |
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Jeremy Henderson writes:
If you're in a dubious light situation such that you need to bracket your film exposures, you will waste a lot of time and a lot of film relative to digital. You can waste a lot of time with digital in such situations, too, since what you see on the LCD is not necessarily what you'll get in the final image. You don't need a digital SLR to have exposure control. A much cheaper model will provide all the control you need. If you wade through ten menus to obtain it, yes. That is difficult to do quickly. Err .. Fujichrome users? I've never seen prepaid Fujichrome. Where have you encountered it? -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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Carole Allen writes:
Oh, but when you get all those envelopes full of prints back it's sort of like Christmas, all anticipation to see what you really ended up with! You can have film developed abroad. It's easier to find photo labs than it is to find Internet cafés, in most locations. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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