Zone-System-Grandpa Loc: Springfield, Ohio

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Perhaps, not, but I had taken the comment with a grain of salt.

My wife and I have always donated to legitimate charities and we remain to do so. The only charities that we do not donate money to are those who solicit via. telemarketing practices and those who send out mailers which are those often known to soak up the donated money for operational purposes whereas little of the money makes it into the hands of the legitimate charitable institutions.. We always drop a twenty dollar bill into the pot of those who stand in the cold collecting money for the Salvation Army as well as I personally contact a pastor whom I know well and ask him to take my personally written check to a family that he is aware of that is having hard times during the Christmas season..

My wife and I both have been out shopping during the cold of winter months and have seen the unfortunate among us walking a city sidewalk and we have been known to pull over and ask that person if they could use a new winter coat. If they reply with a big "Yes", we ask them to wait at the nearest street corner and we soon return with a well made goose down coat of their sized and we freely give it to that person.. It truly does warm the old heart to help someone in need whereby it is needless for me to say that I have no shame when it comes to my wanting to purchase a new camera :thumbup:

steve_stoneblossom Loc: Rhode Island, USA

Great story. Thanks for sharing.

Zone-System-Grandpa Loc: Springfield, Ohio

[quote=SharpShooter]Grandpa, everybody has their shooting style and or at least a perception of themselves.
Yes, if you are a pro and the job dictates two cameras such as at a wedding or a sporting event, then that's what you have to do.
Personally, if one is an amateur, I don't see the reason in it. I get my share of lousy shots and a second body might increase my percentage of those.
Really, though, I'm always carrying my pack with several lenses, but I most often will select the lens that will give me the shots that I'm after that day based on the conditions, and that's what I use. I don't go anywhere to shoot everything that happens. I position myself where my kind of action will occur, and I shoot there. I use a zoom or a prime, but not both. Sometimes you just gotta give something up, or it will eat you up!
We are creatures of real expectations. That's why we carry two or even three cameras. That's also why when fishing we stay JUST 2 more minutes, then JUST two more. We NEVER know when the bite will come. But I have learned from experience that the bite isn't gonna happen, and I don't stress about it.
Grandpa, I carry one camera and do the BEST I can, two cameras won't make my shots better.
Good luck with your two cameras! :thumbup:
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When it comes to your "fishing one more minute" scenario, I have a good true story to tell you about just that !

A group of fellows whom I had, several times, gone up into Ontario, Canada fishing with had always wanted to catch a Northern Pike that weighed 20 lbs or more.. This Northern Pike dream of theirs was a dream that had included me too.

Well, back in September of 1989, the group that I go fishing with, including me, had gone up to McGregor Bay to go fishing for a week and one evening while out fishing, several of the fellows in our group were fishing in a boat no more than 100 yds from the boat that I was fishing in by myself.. Nightfall was approaching and the sun had already set whereas within minutes, one of the fellows had suggested that we call it quits for the day and that we get back to the cabin to clean and fillet the fish that we had already caught. My reply to the fellow who wanted to quit was asking that he/they give me a few more minute so that I could relocate up nearby a shoreline where another boat of fellows we didn't know had been perch fishing not more five minutes earlier. My reasoning was because I had figured that, just maybe or by chance, an old Northern Pike might had been hanging around wanting to feed upon the perch that the previous group of fishermen had attracted and had been catching. Well, once that I had relocated to that exact spot, I casted my Bagley Deep Diver fishing lure where the other group of fishermen had been fishing for perch, but when retrieving the lure, I didn't get a strike. So, I told myself, "Just one more cast.".. Upon that last cast, my fishing rod had nearly bent into a 3/4 bending curve and my fishing pals in the other boat went crazy hooping and hollering as they watched a beautiful, large Northern Pike dance and leap out of the water trying to free itself from my lure at the end of my line ! Fifteen minutes later up at the boat dock, I'd taken my prize and weighed it on the resort owner's official, often checked for accuracy, grocery scale. My Pike weighed 24.5 lbs and it is now proudly displayed on my den wall !

Yep, for sure, this was a time when just one more cast had gotten the job done !

True story and I remain to have the May 1990 issue of a Cabela fishing catalog which has a photo of me and my Northern Pike shown in their fishing rod section !
I doubt if you or any of our members have that catalog, but should anyone be interested, I can scan it and post it here on our UHH site when time allows ~ which may be within the next day or two..

Best Regards,
~Doug~

jethro779 Loc: Tucson, AZ

Seems to me the Scout & Scout II were built there too. I wish I still had my 1979 Scout II.

Zone-System-Grandpa Loc: Springfield, Ohio

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Our Scouts were made over in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and they had excellent engines (especially the 318 cubic inch V8 & the 345 V8 cubic engine) and their auto transmission was Chrysler's 3-speed Torqueflite auto transmission which was a far better built auto tranny than anything Ford or GM had to offer. For me, those little IHC Scouts had more power and torque than any subsequent Chevy Blazers with 350 cubic inch V8 engines with General Motors auto transmissions that I had owned.. The main problem with the Scout was the steel from which their bodies were made. Japanese steel back then was not treated very well to prevent rust and the Scout was loaded with Japanese steel back then. The upper half hinged window panel with glass which was upon the upper tailgate had steel hinges that were a nightmare when it came to rusting ! Otherwise, the Scout was a fun machine to drive and when I had taken it out to Colorado on several deer and elk hunting seasons, it maneuvered up the mountains into places where other 4x4's could not go !!!!!

jethro779 Loc: Tucson, AZ

Mine had the 345 and torqueflite, and could walk up the side of a barn if it could get traction.

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

I volunteer to be your charity :)

Zone-System-Grandpa Loc: Springfield, Ohio

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amehta Loc: Boston

I can see using two bodies for the convenience, but I think three would start to get inconvenient, with the extra weight and the harder packing. I think it is easier to get the sensors cleaned every month instead. :-)

bull drink water Loc: pontiac mi.

i'm all for having a back up camera under the right circumstances.
1 you are a pro and make you living with your camera.
2 you are obsessed with not missing a shot due to lens changing.
for me changing lenses in the field is not a big deal, even back in the 60's. the only time I take 2 cameras in the field is when I am giving then a shake down or comparing them.
hey, it's a camera and I trust it to last the day. gee, when I go on a 1000 mi. trip I don't tow another car, just in case.

winterrose Loc: Kyneton, Victoria, Australia

That sounds like a very good idea Doug.....(goes to the big glass cabinet and opens the door.....) No let's see, how many lenses do I have here?

John Howard Loc: SW Florida and Blue Ridge Mountains of NC.

I just completed walking tours of Turkey and Italy for 23 days. I carried a D800 and D810 and was glad I did. Even with the holy trinity of lenses weighing me down, not needing to change lenses as much was great. There were times when I had both out of the bag and shooting alternately. In addition, the trails were very dusty and a few days in Italy had had a dust problem on one lens / camera contacts. The camera could not focus or expose correctly until I figured it out and used a wet lens cloth to wipe away the gray dust. Without two bodies, I would have totally missed some shots. My only advice is to take your partner along to help carry it all.

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Another benefit is that you're dividing up the shutter actuations between two cameras. If you plan to keep shooting with that particular camera model for a very long time the wear on the shutter mechanisms will be reduced.

Fergus Loc: Westfield,IN

This statement brings to mind a situation I found myself in several years ago. A friend, a good friend of mine, told me that she had put me down for a $5000.00 donation to an organization that we both had an interest in. I was both shocked and angry at her presumption. I told her to never, ever tell me how to spend my money. Unfortunately the friend ship went down hill after that.
So, if you donate to organizations, as red-eye/blue-eye responder suggested, or you don't, or if you can do both, it's nobody else's business. Your question asked was having two similar cameras a good idea. You're asking about the mechanics of a situation not the morality of it.

Richard HZ Loc: Indiana, US

I always carry two bodies. Before I carried Nikon D800 and Nikon D7000. Now I carry Nikon D4S and Nikon D800 and sometime with D7000 too. It is convenient to use during quick actions. In addition, carrying more than one serves the back up purpose.