As Tom Pfeiffer once said, > Trying to navigate San Francisco in a car will NOT be a pleasant experience, > I'd recommend BART/Metro or even the Trolley Car, but not a car.
Good point - I live in the area and I hate to go to SF because of the parking situation (though the driving/navigating itself can be hairy too). If your friend wants to familiarize themselves with the area, they could visit http://www.transitinfo.org/ - has maps, schedules, etc. of all the public transportation options in and out of the city. > As for places to buy camera gear with a good selection and good prices, > forget it. Gasser's is strictly list price and snobbish, Calumet is NOT > cheap either, there are a number of smaller shops but overhead is high in a > city where 600 square foot walk ups start at $2500/mo. No comments about gear, since I mostly do online/catalog ordering. No deals to be hand in SF, TTBOMK. Gasser's is ok if you want to rent something out of the ordinary while sight-seeing. > Much better to bring the equipment he already ahs and use it to capture the > experience of one of the most cosmopolitan and fun places in the US. Yup, one of the favorite icons of SF is of course the Golden Gate bridge, which is great to shoot from the seaside walk to Fort Point in the Presidio district where you can get the classic "incoming waves with bridge in the background" type shot (note that mine is not one of them as I was actually taking part in a fundraising event at the time and just shooting to pass the time): http://gallery.quotidian.com/WalkAmerica2003/2003_04_26_095959_N16839 You can also get some nice angles from the back yard of the Bay Area Discovery Museum (www.badm.org) on the other side of the bridge (the Marin side), or of course, the often fog-laden shots from up the hill in the Marin Headlands by the abandoned fortifications. Here's an interesting shot of it from a local KAP (Kite Aerial Photographer): http://www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/thumbs/GGNRA/pages/36_ggb.htm Hope this gives you a few ideas - if your friend is into Street Photography at all, Market Street or Union Square would be nice crowded areas to go crazy in :) > Tom P. -/\/ * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
