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Subject: [OM] Re: Digital decisions
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 06:41:16 -0700
At 05:35 AM 10/03/2006, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>I mentioned temperature since my A1 gets noticeably warm to the touch
>with lots of shooting over several hours and the screen and anti-shake
>left on continuously.  I don't know what's going on at the sensor but
>the CF card gets much hotter than the camera body.

[snip]

That's why I leave my A1 powered-down between shooting 
sessions.  Since the wee beastie's got significant shutter lag 
anyways, and since I don't favour the shooting style of split-second 
decisive moments, I'll wander around with the A1 off, find my 
picture, compose it in my mind, etc., and finally power-up the A1 to 
take the shot (or few shots).  Then it's turned off until my next 
series of shots.  Some people complain that the A1 takes several 
seconds to power-up, but I actually find its power-down time to be 
longer and (for some odd reason) much more annoying to me.  Yet I've 
managed to avoid significant noise from a hot sensor or body by doing 
this power-on/power-off routine.  Perhaps it's harder on the camera, 
I don't know.

This style of using the A1 mimics how I work with my OMs, and when a 
buddy of mine and I go out to shoot our digis together, he always 
notices the difference in our styles of picture-taking (he's a 
take-pictures-of-everything-a-hundred-times kind of guy -- he never 
developed the discipline of taking the time to think about each shot, 
'cause he's never owned a film camera).  I come home with mebbe a 
couple of CF cards filled, he'll come home with a portable hard drive 
stuffed to the gills.  Then he spends a day or so winnowing out the 
best shots -- but to his credit, he does get some *really* good stuff!  ;-)


Garth



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