My local shop has been very helpful and supportive in meeting my photography needs - answering my endless questions, recommending products that I have never heard of with amazing results and I always buy from them. However, I usually wait until Canon and our local store has a decent sale ... sometimes it’s a long wait but it’s worth it for me and for my local store.
When traveling, I format in camera a 64gb SD card and a 64gb CF card. After shooting all day in Jpeg on the SD and raw on the CF, I download the SD card via flash reader to my iPhone 7 Plus. I then use the jpegs for a quick review, edit for straightening and other composition adjustments and upload to my social media account for my trip journal with notes. The raw files on the CF card stay in camera for the trip and are processed in LR at home on my iMac desktop. I have had one 64gb SD card fail but was lucky I had downloaded the CF card raw files separately to LR after my trip to Trinidad! I always reformat in camera as per my instruction manual from Canon. Thank you for this topic!
Would you be willing to try a different type of external shutter release system? Skydivers use a shutter release that they hold in their mouth that is Bluetooth connected to their helmet mounted Go-Pro cameras. My nephew is into wing suit formation flying and I happen to ask, “hey, how did they capture the still frame photos from above the skydiving team after they’ve all jumped?” They also Video the events.
I am most apt to hand over my not so new 12mp Point and Shoot Camera aka my iPhone 7+ with 128gb memory with full insurance with a $600 replacement cost than $4k camera set up ... even at events where non/member guests offer to take the photo. I will take several views adjusting people, etc. and show the more novice than me volunteer the photos, set up again and then they just need to hold the phone and touch the big white button - sometimes that doesn’t go well and I just submit photos without me in them ... 😉
Kudos! May I comment to include one step further from the intrinsic value they and you receive of your gift is that someday some of them may do the same for another young person.
Your gift really is a living legacy! Thank you for sharing! And, may we learn to share more from your example!
quote=Wanda Krack]Positively affecting the life of another person, especially a child, is one of the best legacies you can leave. Heartwarming to read.[/quote]
I had one of the Kodak guides when I worked part-time during HS in my Aunt’s Professional Studio ‘71-73 before she sold it.... She did commercial, portrait, wedding and restoration photography for 30+ years.... one of my jobs was to run upstairs to the rooftop and place the proofing frames in the sun to make sepia tone proofs from the smaller negatives - 3x4’s I think ... then color became reliable, popular and affordable. Yeah, it took a lot of work and a lot of knowledge to run a studio in those days ...
If you use a telephoto or zoom lens through the car windshield, it will pick up the safety glass film matrix — especially in a Toyota Avalon! 😳
AnneHW wrote:
Could you please send me a link to that one. I am not finding it. Thanks.
I got mine at a local camera shop so that I could try it on and attach my camera set up to it to see if would be a good fit for me. BH Photo sells them - the Sport for taller folks and the Curve for slender or shorter folks. I recommend that you invest an extra few $ to get a lanyard tether to attach to the camera and the metal part above the D ring on the strap set up. With the Canon Lens release button where it is I have and two other Birding friends have had their camera and lens unlock or camera drop on the ground. One needs to secure it with this short lanyard so that it becomes a two way safety set up for lens and camera. But that is a topic for another day ...
I have the Black Rapid cross shoulder harness and carry a Canon 7D Mark2 with Canon’s 100-400L Lens, total weight = 5 pounds. The strap connects to the tripod mount bracket of the lens offering me an easy bar to grasp to swing the camera up to shoot wildlife photos while hiking and sliding clamps to keep the camera from sliding around while walking. I have severe neck problems and have found this works best for my feminine anatomy. If my hike is to be more than 3-4 miles or 2 hours, I put the camera setup into my padded travel backpack that is a good fit for my height. If using the shoulder strap, I put the binocular harness on last, if using the backpack, I put the binoculars’ harness on first so I have quick access to the backpack. Backpack also holds water bottles, snack, extra camera battery, SD cards, storm jacket for camera, lens enzyme cleaner, microfiber cloth, cell phone, emergency charger for cell phone and a tiny first aid kit and sometimes extra socks and gloves! It’s a lot but I live in Northern New England where the weather can turn in the blink of an eye!
I’ve never used a polarizing filter before but am concerned that I might miss some great shots if I don’t have one on my upcoming trip to the Puffin breeding island, Machias Seal Island off the coast of Maine. I have a Canon 7DM2, and use my Canon 100-400 L(M1) for wildlife photography. If I was to purchase a polarizing filter, what would you recommend?
Yes, We pay the highest property taxes in the nation which many of us worry about as we retire ... many folks have to sell homes and their cottages because they can’t afford to live here once their income drops for even a well planned for retirement! So, I’m planning to update all my photography equipment in the next two years ... otherwise I’ll just be Birding carrying my binoculars!
“I'll pay all of your sales taxes on camera purchases this year if you'll come pay our property taxes, which are the highest in the nation. And as I work in Massachusetts I get the worst of both worlds - MA income plus NH property taxes. At least this is one thing I don't have to worry about.
Andy[/quote]”
I’m over 60, short and have a thin neck and shoulders and have found the Black Rapid shoulder strap meets my needs for hiking with my Canon 7DM2 + Canon 100-400mm L lens = 5 lbs. It has slide clips that lock into place while walking so it doesn’t slide around. It connects to the lens tripod mount preferably because the weight is too much to carry from the camera mount. I have severe neck problems and this has pretty much solved my camera carrying needs. I also carry Swarovski bins on a harness over the Black Rapid camera shoulder strap and the two work well together.