Skip,
You should have asked me how many lenses go with my "light"
kit. <ggg> But I love lenses and merely put up with computers.
Read on below.
At 08:40 AM 3/16/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>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
Actually, I think I rest my case! ;-)
Seriously, my point is not so much the physical dimensions of film vs.
digital gear but the significant change in workflow. I pretty much know
what I'm going to get on film by now and cover the extremes with a certain
amount of judicious bracketing. I expect one would eventually get to the
same place with a digital workflow. I'm looking forward to that day, but
I'm quite happy in the meantime.
Enjoy your new ride. I'm following the reports with great interest.
Joel W.
> >
> >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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