Bob W wrote:
Please keep the ideas and thoughts coming in. I have a friend who made a living from mountain photography for 20 years, and I plan to discuss this with him soon, but I'm grateful for any information and advice from experienced people.
I've done a fair amount of combined skiing and photography. In fact I lost my first digital camera that way (a Kodak DC240) - dropped it in the street in Verbier and the bugger who picked it up decided not to hand it in...
I usually have the strap of the camera round my neck and the camera itself tucked inside a pocket of my jacket - keeps it out of the way and reasonably warm, and means I can use it with gloves on without worrying about dropping it down a mountain. (Although I did once have a 28mm drop off my ME Super from the summit ridge of a previously unclimbed Himalayan mountain, but that's another story...)
I often use an Olympus Trip 35 for skiing - it's compact, hard to break, cheap to replace, and the solar-powered auto-aperture is ideal for cold conditions, assuming you're more interested in shooting and moving on than stopping to set up a fantastic landscape shot.
S
