"Arvin Chang" wrote

Anyway, if you have any positive experience with taking
action shots while snowboarding, please share. TIA!

What happened to your camera? The F-100 is a nice camera for
snowboarding photos.

I dropped it into the lake :-) That's the down side of the pocket
camera - jump into the mountain lake with your bare ass, then try
to put your pants on real fast - and it slips right out of the back
pocket!

Here are a few photos that I've taken a few years ago -
http://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=ChangArvin&AID=1380965

Were those done with a 3x zoom or more? Nice shots!

Are you sure that snow causes your camera to overexpose?

Freudian slip. Underexposed of course.

I usually shoot with a polarizing filter in either shutter priority or
manual mode. In sunny weather I am usually using minimum apeture (F8)
although I might go wider to get at least a 1/250s shutter speed. In
general I usually prefocused off a point by aiming at where the rider
will be in 2 seconds (very easy for jumps) and half-pressing the
shutter button. I have used fixed focus as well (prefocusing and then
switching to manul focus mode).

Hey thanks for your tips. Sometimes it's hard to find something to
pre-focus on in the middle of a bowl, but I recall that even p&s
cameras often have manual focus - they just don't have manual shutter
and aperture.

C-750 is essentially the same). It has a 38-380mm zoom while only
being 105 x 60 x 69 mm in size. To compare your F100 was 111 x 52 x 32
mm in size.

Well, see, here's my take: I'm going there to ride, not take pictures.
If it's possible to also take pictures without affecting my riding,
I'll bite. 6 centimeters is probably something that will be quite
noticeable. So I guess I'm asking for too much, will have to make do
with just an ultra-compact p&s.

I'm still considering buying a smaller camera to carry on the
mountain... not quite sure what I'm going to get, but the Canon A80
looks good. I'm still shopping though.

It's interesting if the swivel LCD is actually useful for our use-case..
Maybe sometimes it would be good to hold the camera over your head or
on the contrary close to the ground. But yeah, A80 seems to be a good
choice.