Re: A Digital First

2011-08-05 Thread Mark C
I sometimes feel like I am just my own army of monkeys, randomly pressing the shutter button, getting a lot of gibberish, but every now and then a nice photo emerges and I pull that one off the pile of debris and proudly acclaim I did this! I'll take the random hits as they come - to me the

Re: A Digital First

2011-08-03 Thread Sam L
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Bran Everseeking bran.everseek...@sasktel.net wrote: For the first time since I started shooting a DSLR I have shot through a card and more in a single session. I came close shooting the Local Fringe fest yesterday but tonight I shot through an 8 gig card on

Re: A Digital First

2011-08-03 Thread Steven Desjardins
The mere volume is enough for me ;-) On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Sam L samthegr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Bran Everseeking bran.everseek...@sasktel.net wrote: For the first time since I started shooting a DSLR I have shot through a card and more in a single

RE: A Digital First

2011-08-03 Thread Norm Baugher
That's what I was wondering as well. If you take that many images, wouldn't it be easier just to shoot digital video and freeze a few stills from it? Hell, if burn a few rolls of 120, I feel I've had a good day... Norm From: Steven Desjardins The mere volume is enough for me ;-) On Wed, Aug 3,

Re: A Digital First

2011-08-03 Thread Bran Everseeking
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 16:14:05 -0400 Sam L samthegr...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose you ought to share some of these photos with the list for us to critique. :-P once i get past culling I will upload some somewhere. I got waylaid by my son's computer crashing and the shop not being very

Re: A Digital First

2011-08-03 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2011-08-03 17:25, Norm Baugher wrote: That's what I was wondering as well. If you take that many images, wouldn't it be easier just to shoot digital video and freeze a few stills from it? Hell, if burn a few rolls of 120, I feel I've had a good day... Nah, it'd just be more frames. When

Re: A Digital First

2011-08-02 Thread Bran Everseeking
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:20:59 -0400 Doug Franklin jehosep...@mindspring.com wrote: On the other hand, more than once, I've sent a /gratis/ 8x10 print to a racer, pro and amateur, only to receive a nice note that it's the best shot anyone has gotten of them. Which is damned gratifying and ego

A Digital First

2011-08-01 Thread Bran Everseeking
For the first time since I started shooting a DSLR I have shot through a card and more in a single session. I came close shooting the Local Fringe fest yesterday but tonight I shot through an 8 gig card on the belly dance troupe and was baffled as to why the shutter would not trip. I then noticed

Re: A Digital First

2011-08-01 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2011-08-01 22:44, Bran Everseeking wrote: For the first time since I started shooting a DSLR I have shot through a card and more in a single session. [...] I am not sure that overcoming the film shooters restraint is a good thing but milestones are intresting. It depends on what you're