LIke others that have posted on this subject I also have a Pentax WR 105- water resistant camera. The pictures are generally good and in focus except at maximum zoom where I find most pictures fuzzy. Also the light meter is an averaging meter which means if you sit offshore and zoom in on some wee beastie foraging through the kelp you are likely to have a very dark picture since the meter will read the sky not the subject you focused on. I wish the camera had a spot meter for zoom shots- a lense cover would also be nice. I also keep a Kodak disposable waterproof camera in my PFD pocket for times when I can not get to the Pentax in the deck bag. It also takes reasonably good pictures. It has a small lens (28mm I think) so subjects get very small fast if they are any distance from the camera. Picture quality nearly equals that of the Pentax. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
I actually keep the pentax on my boat deck or around my head when paddling. I've used it on rainy days and it has sustained going under water. I wouldn't take it down in the water. I have found in general that point and shoot cameras without any exposure control are going to have trouble taken long range scenic shots and I tend to avoid them or simply accept the results as documenting my trip but not as fine photography. sid *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Sidney_Stone_at_amsinc.com wrote: > > I actually keep the pentax on my boat deck or around my head when paddling. The mental picture of a camera around your head is very funny to me Sid. Sorta like a miner's light? > I've used it on rainy days and it has sustained going under water. I wouldn't > take it down in the water. I have found in general that point and shoot cameras > without any exposure control are going to have trouble taken long range scenic > shots and I tend to avoid them or simply accept the results as documenting my > trip but not as fine photography. I think this is a very good point. These are wonderful to spark the memory for all the associations that we conjure recalling an experience. The other 2 points about this is that one, 35mm is really not as appropriate as large format for this type of work. This has been illustrated by the work of William Henry Jackson's early pictures of Yellowstone, Carlton Watkins of Yosemite (both of which were responsible in the preserving these wildernesses. Jackson's photographs went to Congress and resulted in Yellowstone becoming a national park, Watkin's went to the governor of California) to the more recent Richard Misrach and that calendar guy from the Sierra Club that promotes zone systems and previsualization. The second is that a photograph, when used as this formal object, is never as impressive, to me anyway, as the actual visual display. A sunset, for example, is beautiful for it's wide vista and uncontained nature in the visual periphery. By slicing a frame out of it in a photograph seems to make it something less. To the original witness however, this image may incite a valuable memory. Photography provides a good record of a changing scenery around us. Eugene Atget provided us with a document of a changing Paris at the turn of the century that proves valuable and interesting to the average viewer and historian. I try to think how the media, while taking an impression of a 'real' scene out there, transforms it into a photographic object with all it's own inherent properties. What makes this image different than what was really going on? How does my selection of frame alter my interpretation of the original event? How does my 'slice of time' recontextualize the original event? Makes this medium the most surreal of all- we interpret the photograph as a direct representation of reality, proof so to speak. Yet, it is totally based on what we decide on the elimination and inclusion within the frame, changing the meaning with each decision. A lie cloaked in an assumption of reality. The photograph of value to me is the one that lets me discover a new or different way of seeing. But then again, this is only one guys opinion that spends a lot of time thinking about such trivial matters. -- Gabriel L Romeu http://studiofurniture.com İİİİİ furniture from the workshop http://studiofurniture.com/diary İİİİİ life as a tourist, daily journal http://studiofurniture.com/paint İİİİİ paintings, photographs, etchings, objects *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 10:38 AM 1/21/01 -0500, Gabriel L Romeu wrote: > >The other 2 points about this is that one, 35mm is really not as >appropriate as large format for this type of work. This has been >illustrated by the work of William Henry Jackson's early pictures of >Yellowstone, Carlton Watkins of Yosemite (both of which were responsible >in the preserving these wildernesses. Jackson's photographs went to >Congress and resulted in Yellowstone becoming a national park, Watkin's >went to the governor of California) to the more recent Richard Misrach >and that calendar guy from the Sierra Club that promotes zone systems >and previsualization. Yeah, but I can't see hauling an 8x10 view camera around in a kayak, although they give wonderful photos. I thought about getting a 4x5 view camera one time for other uses, like architectural photography. The cost of the camera itself wasn't so bad, but when you think of all the other gear that's involved, it gets a little scary. Sort of like kayaking . . . -- Wes *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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