When to Carry Your DSLR (Page 3): I love my little Sony a6000... fits in my pocket and carry it more often than my Canon 7D... Dik...

Dikdik Loc: Winnipeg, Canada

I love my little Sony a6000... fits in my pocket and carry it more often than my Canon 7D...

Dik

Notorious T.O.D. Loc: Harrisburg, North Carolina

My first question would be is it part of the mission or does it interfere with the mission in any way. The mission comes first I would think.

Second the camera gear may be very valuable to him but in realiy it is one of thousands or tens of thousands. It would be like not driving your car because it cost a lot. Cars and cameras are in reality largely tools.

Life is risky every day. I stand 15 feet from trains going by at 70mph. They detail, I will die. Same with shooting drag racing as I will be today. Cars crash. We try to be very safe but we can’t mitigate all risk. I always say there are a 1000 stupid ways to die, try hard not to find one.

halraiser wrote:

I'm a member of as search and rescue team. Yesterd... (show quote)

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

halraiser wrote:

I'm a member of as search and rescue team. Yesterd... (show quote)

Could have been worse. He could have been an artist who makes his living doing large, scenic, oil paintings!

Glad your mission was a success!

Fotoserj Loc: St calixte Qc Ca

I know I carry mine when I go fishing on my inflatable pontoon

camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

Paul, it looks to me like the perfect case for a mirrorless camera with a kit lens.

Sidwalkastronomy Loc: New Jersey Shore

Most new cell phones are 1000 dollars so small pocket point shot is excellent idea and chg canon is correct in his thinking

Robertl594 Loc: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and Nantucket

Helmet mounted GoPro. Leaves his/her hands free to what he/she needs to do. Nothing like getting hit in the head by a dropped DSLR

47greyfox Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range

Dikdik wrote:

I love my little Sony a6000... fits in my pocket and carry it more often than my Canon 7D...

Dik

Clearly, a case where size matters, particularly pockets! Years ago, I bought a a6000 as a vacation camera so I wouldn’t have to lug a DSLR around. Then, I replaced the Sony kit lens with a 24-105 f/4. I created what I was trying to avoid! Recently, I sold the a6000 and 4 lenses. For a vacation in August, I brought my trusty Canon g16. Not easily pocketable, but my arms and shoulders thank me, and the images are more than adequate.

Dannj

47greyfox wrote:

Clearly, a case where size matters, particularly pockets! Years ago, I bought a a6000 as a vacation camera so I wouldn’t have to lug a DSLR around. Then, I replaced the Sony kit lens with a 24-105 f/4. I created what I was trying to avoid! Recently, I sold the a6000 and 4 lenses. For a vacation in August, I brought my trusty Canon g16. Not easily pocketable, but my arms and shoulders thank me, and the images are more than adequate.

Great testimony to YOUR gear but the post is about a RESCUE TEAM on a mission not vacation photos and tired arms.

47greyfox Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range

Dannj wrote:

Great testimony to YOUR gear but the post is about a RESCUE TEAM on a mission not vacation photos and tired arms.

My only point is/was that it's not always necessary to carry a DSLR to get quality images regardless of whether on a rescue mission or vacation or whatever else someone might be involved with. IMHO, my postings was consistent with the thread.

Dannj

47greyfox wrote:

My only point is/was that it's not always necessary to carry a DSLR to get quality images regardless of whether on a rescue mission or vacation or whatever else someone might be involved with. IMHO, my postings was consistent with the thread.

Got it👍

halraiser

Both the team leader and the photographer learned from the event, the problem will not happen again. Would it have been better to not make the mistake? Of course, but how many perfect people do you know? I will be happy to be on the team with them again.

Collhar Loc: New York City.

Dannj wrote:

Maybe we don’t have all the details here but on the surface this looks like a poorly trained team member and a team leader failing to do his/her job.

We don't know that they are not properly trained. Nor the decisions made by team leader is inappropriate. Based on the thread, there is no mention of anyone being put in jeopardy or a failure to do their job.

Dannj

Collhar wrote:

We don't know that they are not properly trained. Nor the decisions made by team leader is inappropriate. Based on the thread, there is no mention of anyone being put in jeopardy or a failure to do their job.

As I said “maybe we don’t have all the details” so all we can do is speculate. As for anyone being put in jeopardy, you’re right, we don’t know that either. But the primary focus (npi) of a rescue mission is finding and helping the subjects. It’s not a photo shoot.

stu352 Loc: MA/RI Border

I was tiring of carrying my DSLR kit at auto races or touring on vacation. The were never damaged, but I came close a couple times. So I bought a G9X Mk 1, handy, pocket sized, great images for my purposes, etc. It was nice and safe in my pants pocket, right?

Not quite. I suffered a well deserved fall, landing on my side. Just a scraped elbow and knee, right? Wrong. Though I didn't think I'd landed on it, the G9x was crushed, the screen only half working, the lens covers not retracting. I now have a G9x Mk 2...