With any luck the current load in the camera will have quite a few of Fingal's Cave. Don't take enough pictures anyway, but often don't have the camera handy in the boat as it isn't waterproof, but I was willing to risk it for that.
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As did most of the climbing ones. Mind you, the one on the Tarmachan ridge did kind of put me off my tea.
Sorry about that! Could've been worse, had someone been snapping the Whole Body Beached Whale move (with advanced belly jam) at the end of the Ikea[1] ridge on Arran recently...
Pete.
[1] sorry to the purists, but someone said it and the name just stuck... -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net [email hidden] dundee.ac.uk~pjclinchOpen ↗
Hooked... truly! If you do go over to Kinetics one word. Kettweisel. I defy you not to grin!
It's a fun machine, or it was after the first few minutes which I spent drifting into the kerb! I knew I would have to actively steer the whole time as it was a trike, but knowing something and actually /doing/ it turned out to be different things, and there's a fair old camber on the road just outside the shop... The first couple of unintentional handbrake turns were a bit odd too, but after that the /intentional/ ones were a tremendous wheeze!
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Peter Clinch <[email hidden]> wrote in news:ca18ka$3mk$1 @dux.dundee.ac.uk:
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Don't take enough pictures anyway, but often don't have the camera handy in the boat as it isn't waterproof, but I was willing to risk it for that.
I experimented with disposable waterproof cameras for a while but gave up and ended up carrying my SLR in a dry bag on the few occasions I felt brave enough (too many swims to risk the camera that much). When you're used to the quality of a decent camera, disposables just don't cut it unless you're just going for capturing mates doing daft things on the Etive.
<moan grumble> No sense of proper hairshirt adventure, these yachties... </moan grumble> ;-)
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I experimented with disposable waterproof cameras for a while but gave up and ended up carrying my SLR in a dry bag on the few occasions I felt brave enough (too many swims to risk the camera that much). When you're used to the quality of a decent camera, disposables just don't cut it unless you're just going for capturing mates doing daft things on the Etive.
I have an old but quite nice Olympus XA which fits in a BA pocket (inside an Ortleib map case, just in case...). One doesn't make a habit of checking out the sea floor as close as possible in the touring boat, but one must be aware of the possibilities. Problem with a big camera in a dry bag for the sea is you can't just set yourself up downriver from the carnage^H^H^H^H^Hfun in the middle of a long crossing :-(
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Peter Clinch <[email hidden]> wrote in news:ca18ka$3mk$1 @dux.dundee.ac.uk:
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Don't take enough pictures anyway, but often don't have the camera handy in the boat as it isn't waterproof, but I was willing to risk it for that.
I experimented with disposable waterproof cameras for a while but gave up and ended up carrying my SLR in a dry bag on the few occasions I felt
brave
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enough (too many swims to risk the camera that much). When you're used to the quality of a decent camera, disposables just don't cut it unless
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just going for capturing mates doing daft things on the Etive.
You want a waterproof enclosure - friend has one for diving which would do for caoneing too. Obviously this doesn't work for SLR, but decent digitals are quite good these days.
(they're specific for the camera - he has a canon of some description which he chose because he could get the box).
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Jon Senior said:
Hooked... truly! If you do go over to Kinetics one word. Kettweisel. I defy you not to grin!
It's a fun machine, or it was after the first few minutes which I spent drifting into the kerb! I knew I would have to actively steer the whole time as it was a trike, but knowing something and actually /doing/ it turned out to be different things, and there's a fair old camber on the road just outside the shop... The first couple of unintentional handbrake turns were a bit odd too, but after that the /intentional/ ones were a tremendous wheeze!
Hmmm... part of the reason for the continuous drift is the single wheel drive. Since the right wheel is the drive wheel, the trike has a natural tendency to turn left. My mate and I did conclude that while a universal gear would probably be a lot of grief, there was potential for changing the manner of the drivetrain and driving both wheels. The construction of a similar trike (Or a tadpole) will possibly form the basis of a future project, but it'll be a while before that is even close. By that point I may even have enough money to *buy* one of the damn things!
You want a waterproof enclosure - friend has one for diving which would do for caoneing too. Obviously this doesn't work for SLR, but decent digitals are quite good these days.
(they're specific for the camera - he has a canon of some description which he chose because he could get the box).
Yep, bought myself a Canon S45 for precisely that reason, it's a great wee camera and I've taken literally thousands of photos since I got it a year or so ago. I've saved stacks on film and processing alhtough I reckon I only take about 4 to 5 times as many photos as I used to. What with one thing and another (like not having an job at the moment) the money just ain't there for the enclosure at the moment unfortunately. The Canon enclosure only goes down to 30m, bit of a bugger as I intend to get back into diving and I would like to have a little bit more leeway (although I rarely go much below 30m anyway).
Peter Clinch <[email hidden]> wrote in news:ca1ik8$a31$1 @dux.dundee.ac.uk:
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Problem with a big camera in a dry bag for the sea is you can't just set yourself up downriver from the carnage^H^H^H^H^Hfun in the middle of a long crossing :-(
I've taken mine out of the dry bag whilst in an open canoe half way down the Tay (part way down Fisherman's). I felt fine, but my wife was having kittens worrying about me dropping it :-/
I've heard of people putting cameras in waterproof cases (like cheap versions of Pelicases) in their sea canoe hatches, don't think they were SLRs though.
Operation Kettwiesel especially fun, and rather disproving of popular theories about the Teutonic Sense of Humour.
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Daft... truly daft. If they didn't pull the trike back out of the canal, it might be worth finding out where they shot the film!
Do you mean it didn't /really/ emerge on floats with Agent Kett coolly cruising along without so much as a hair out of place?
Boo!
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