Craig wrote: It would not surprise me if you didn't find that spending more time in one area and exploring it more fully becomes more satisfying than those long mile-eating paddles were. Good luck... keep paddling... and keep writing. I haven't done any paddling this year, and sad to say, I no longer regret it! Like Mel Lammers, who founded Bagboater _at_ yahoogroups . com, I have seem to (re)started another hobby, which i have been involved in, on and off, most of my life: photography. >From approximately the death of a close friend, in to meeting my wife in the early 2000's, I hardly took a single photo - well, some, using a Konica compact, or a Polaroid, but that was all. But very little effort or money invested into it. It restarted, after twenty years of for me when we bought our first kayak, in the form of a non-waterproof digital compact, also from Konica. Then came a few other digital compacts, some not that compact, like the longer-zoom Fuji Finepix S9000. And this year I have reentered the realm of SLRs, that is digital singelrelfex cameras. Started with one camera, with a single kit lens, and now I have two, and a number of lenses. This has kept me very busy, not least the longer zooms, and quite frankly, those are not ideal for paddling! The wife bought an EVIL (electronic viewfinder & interchangable lens), which is pretty much like a DSLR, without the mirror mechanism and the optical viewfinder. Otherwise comparable, but with an electronic view finder, as the name implies. She then went on search for a new water-proof camera, and bought a Sony DSC-TX5, which is s sleek little camera, which performs excellently (she had planned to buy Pentax's W9, but that didn't find any pleased reviewers, so ..). Her EVIL hasn't any long lenses (none available, yet), so she got herself a small compact from Panasonic, the FZ38, which has a 18x zoom and is utterly reliable, and a good video cam to boot, with decent stereo microphones, to boot! For a nice set of sample photos taken with a FZ38, see: http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/reviewsamples/albums/samsung-hz25w-review-s amples/slideshow Her EVIL, an Olympus PEN E-PL1 can take photos like these: http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/reviewsamples/albums/olympus-m-zd-14-150mm- f4-5-6-review-samples/slideshow or http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/reviewsamples/albums/olympus-9-18mm-f4-5-6- review-samples/slideshow to mention a few :-)! So pretty busy, even when not paddling! Tord PS Mine are Pentax K-7, K-x, and a few lenses *************************************************************************** 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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