Cameras

Yn erthygl , sgrifennodd
John Elgy :
With my old (very old) film camera I always over exposed skiing shots by
a stop or two and this gave the snow a more enticing colour, white as
opposed to grey

But presumably you lost that lovely deep blue of the sky so typical (and
IMHO attractive) of ski photos.

Adrian

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In article , Carl_M
wrote:
"Simon Brown" wrote in message
[snip]
BTW it eats batteries, thank goodness for rechargeables.

Take a sealable plastic bag and put the camera in it before you come
indoors. Digital cameras do not like water and the condensation if
you bring the cold camera into a warm high humidity environment may
cause damage. A plastic bag keeps the camera in a low humidity
environment until it has warmed up to room temperature.

[snip]

To prolong battery life keep the camera (as much as possible) and the
spare batteries warm (inside your coat) and switch off the LCD screen.


This year I used a Olympus mju digital (4Mp) for both my 2
week ski-touring holiday in March/April and also my 3 week summer alpine
walking and climbing holiday in July. It performed very well under all
types of weather conditions. It has the advantage of being weather
proofed so it doesn't suffer from the condensation problems you mention
above. As far as battery life was concerned I carried one spare, but
found that with appropriate disabling of the flash and switching off the
LCD screen except where needed for macro shots, I was getting about 120
shots per full charge.

Mike
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