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« Reply #150 on: 11:21:38, 05-07-2007 » |
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After looking at Ron's pictures we bought a new digital camera (findally), but I don't know how to use it yet. I can look at the screen now and not in a little window.
This pictures inspire me to start making pictures again. They are so good for remembering good times and good places, good people and not to be in negative territory.
I love this picture very much, the colour scheme and placement of the hill, blue sky and dark shadow. There are so many points of interest.
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« Reply #151 on: 11:28:58, 05-07-2007 » |
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First rule, t-p: always have your camera with you, you never know what you'll find. Second rule: always make sure your batteries are charged up. If your camera takes standard sized batteries and you don't already use rechargeables, get a charger and two sets now. If your camera uses a non-standard battery, get a spare ASAP.
Which camera did you get?
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« Reply #152 on: 11:36:41, 05-07-2007 » |
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Which camera did you get?
Oo, now there's a question. Mine has started making alarming noises and I'm wondering if I'll be needing a new one soon. Do you have any recommendations Ron? |
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« Reply #153 on: 11:57:08, 05-07-2007 » |
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Certainly do, Oz: as you might have guessed, I own several, but if there's only space for one there's no contest. Most of my trek pics were taken with the Canon Powershot S2 1S, a 5 megapixel baby with a very useful12x optical zoom: it's only disadvantage is that it doesn't quite fit a pocket, but needs a small case. It's now been superceded by a new 8 meg model, which is better still, indeed I know of a local professional who intends to use one as his back-up: it's a very new model, so may be hard to find right now. Canon have excellent Mac support, by the way  http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=144&modelid=15207 |
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« Reply #154 on: 12:11:30, 05-07-2007 » |
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Hm. Very interesting. (I had been contemplating the G7 for a while, you see. Would fit in a pocket but it would have to be a big pocket unless one wanted to give the impression of being very pleased indeed to be there.) |
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« Reply #155 on: 12:19:09, 05-07-2007 » |
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Just for comparison, 1x and from the every same spot, 12x (Though perhaps I should point out that these particular pictures are not trek-related, though they are mine...) |
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« Reply #156 on: 14:11:20, 05-07-2007 » |
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We bought camera called traveler (German), 10.1 mega pixels, dc-xz6, 6x optical zoom. We bought it in Aldi for 200 euro and extra memory for 17 euro.
Our friend said it is a good camera.
It is small and came with a case and something else. I have to now figure out how to use it. It is charged now and the second battery is charged.
I used to love making pictures. We had Pentax with bigh zoom.
Now perhaps I can pick up the interest again because I don't need bulky albums to put them in and can keep them in my documents.
But then again what will happen if computer breaks down.
I think the last picture is better quality then the first.
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« Reply #157 on: 14:24:05, 05-07-2007 » |
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Now perhaps I can pick up the interest again because I don't need bulky albums to put them in and can keep them in my documents.
But then again what will happen if computer breaks down.
I hope that you'll be backing all your pictures up onto CDs or DVDs, t-p. It won't cost very much and that way your priceless pictures will survive even if the computer doesn't. |
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« Reply #158 on: 14:26:40, 05-07-2007 » |
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Ron Dough,
Can you give some hint as to what is on the pictures. Are these small houses being build on the beach?
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« Reply #159 on: 14:35:13, 05-07-2007 » |
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If you look closely at the first of the two pictures, t-p, you'll see that they're boat- and net-houses for fishing: the last two on the left have boats visible. They're at a cove called Cala d'Hort on the island of Ibiza in the Mediterranean.
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« Reply #160 on: 16:32:19, 05-07-2007 » |
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Do people have houses for boats? Most of my life I lived in land. I am not sea person at all. I feel much better in forest like environment. Most forests I knew are gone now and people buil summer houses there.
I love trees and everything inside the forests (berries, not bears).
I love the sea too, though I only saw it for a month in some summers. I know Baltic sea around Riga and Sochi (Black sea).
I love to sea that Island of Ibiza. I never heard about it.
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« Reply #161 on: 10:43:56, 06-07-2007 » |
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Ibiza will have to wait for another time and another thread, t-p! Now we've just turned round the corner in the last photgraph, and are over looking the main valley. See the road down there? The meet-up point is a hut just off it, hidden from view right now. Incidentally, the time stamp on this picture says 11:10; we'd started walking at 05:55. This was the last part of the trek; from now on it was downhill all the way. Unfortunately.  |
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« Reply #162 on: 14:46:02, 06-07-2007 » |
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The little road looks so nice.
I thought that going downhill is easier than up the hill. Obviously I am wrong.
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« Reply #163 on: 16:17:51, 06-07-2007 » |
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Going downhill puts a much greater strain on the knees, t-p, and as I've mentioned elsewhere today, I was diagnosed with early onset arthritis of the knees last year, which is what made the whole trek such a particular challenge. It wasn't just walking dowhill either, which is painful enough in itself, but clambering down rocks and coping with slippery patches of small stones, known as scree. From where that photo was taken down to the road took well over two hours, and was the worst section of the whole trek by a long way...
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« Reply #164 on: 13:44:12, 09-07-2007 » |
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Here's a view looking back at how far down the hill I'd already walked...  ...the corner in the last picture is just where the tiny tongue of shadow licks the opposite slope. It goes without saying that the path zigzags and loops its way downwards, so the distance travelled is about one-and-a-half times the crow's-flight length. It's taken about an hour to proceed this far.... |
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