Hi John, On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:36:27 -0400 (EDT), John Francis wrote:
> Not that I haven't seen people doing that; sitting on the Jersey > barrier, back to traffic, paying no attention. I don't even stand around with my back to traffic when I'm flagging (unless I'm the yellow flagger). And I'm a lot more protected in the flag station than a lot of the photogs, hanging out at fence openings and fire posts. > [Have you heard the term for that activity? It's known as > 'chimping'; folks staring at their camera dispay anf going > "Oooh! Oooh! Oooh!"] HAR! I see that in Atlanta traffic every day, too ... from people behind the wheel! > I've shot more than 250 frames during a single on-track session. I would, but I'm doing it for myself rather than for pay, so I can't justify the extra cost. Plus, I want to see a _little_ of the race. > http://www.adorama.com/catalog.tpl?op=details&sid=10463894873648587&sku=ICDSDFT > That's a 30GB hard drive, 3.5" LCD review screen, built in CF reader. Now that sounds excellent. For that money, I couldn't even get a used laptop with 30GB of storage. 20k JPEGs probably means 2k RAWs or more, which would be plenty based on my past usage, and counting the ones that get smacked for focus, composition, etc. Hang that sucker on my web belt and I don't even have to sit down to swap cards and start downloading. I wonder what duration on the battery is like? Especially considering I wouldn't be reviewing too much until the end of the day or event, so the LCD could stay off. > And one other thing - with the laptop I can make sure I've burned > the images to CD before I delete them from the CF card - I'm > paranoid, but I never like having a single point of failure for > something as evanescent as digital images. I'm a bit paranoid, too, but I'd wipe the CF cards as soon as they got into this little device just because going and burning CDs would eat too much of my time. Not having credentials, I do a lot of "camping", waiting for someone to get out of the spot I want, or need, to get my shots. TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ -- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free by Grisoft's AVG. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.525 / Virus Database: 322 - Release Date: 03-10-10
