On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, William Robb wrote: > > Sure, as long as you in fairly civilized areas I agree. But > sometimes I > > go outdoors and stay there for some days and other times I travel > to > > countries were charging is not readily available. In both cases AA > > batteries are available in any shop I can find, which gives me a > nice > > option. > > > > I talked to a D100 owner last week, and he was not very happy with > the > > battery solution it had. > > Sometimes you just have to look at the digital problems and find that > a nice mechanical film camera is the solution.
A roll of film is about as big and heavy as two CRV3 batteries (or a little lighter, but as bulky, as 44 AA ones). It only takes 36 pictures though, where I can shoot a few hundred to a few thousand on the batteries. A 4gb Microdrive when shooting JPEG is enough for quite a lot of backpacking or bicycle touring time for me. The amount of gear that I'm carrying related to photography has dropped with digital, not increased. On one week bike tours (camping) I'd always end up carrying my MZ-5n, spare batteries, and about 10 rolls of film. Film gets bulky. alex
