No, you don't have to carry a laptop. Just have one of those "digital wallets"
that lets you suck the pictures off the card and onto a 20 or 40 gig hard
drive. Nikon just introduced one called the Coolwalker that has a 30gig drive
and an LCD. I'll be in the same basic situation as if I took film, except that
I can review critical shots if I want to on the camera. You can't do THAT on a
film camera.
Oh, and with the E-1, if I carry the right cable, I can connect the camera to a
TV and run a slideshow directly there, without having to have a Laptop.
So I could carry the E-1 camera + lenses, two LI batteries, charger (very
light), two 1gig cards, and the digital wallet plus it's power supply. That
isn't any more than 20-30 rolls of film, and maybe less. I also don't have to
worry about xrays, etc. at the airport.
IOW, I'm not sure that the "travelling light" argument is entirely valid.
Skip
>
>Subject: [OM] Re: Why go digital??
> From: joel-wilcox@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:50:25 -0600
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>For me film is traveling light. When I get the image "in the
>can," I can forget about it and move on to other things. When I go digital,
>I'll have to carry a laptop (that little LCD won't cut it), more batteries,
>cables, memory cards, chargers, gews, gaws. I'll be staring at a bad LCD
>screen on a Dell, in Arizona, at noon, with the sun on the back of my neck,
>still wondering "Did I nail it?" I already wonder about that with film sans
>the extra gear.
>
>However, if I were a wedding photographer ...
>
>Joel W.
>
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