Hi Team, Just arrived back from a short (2400km 9 day) road trip to the north of the state (NSW) and I've almost ploughed through the 2000+ PDML messages that were awaiting my return. Fortunately due to the contents of quite a few of the threads bulk deleting was easy, boy I'm glad I missed that lot.
This was my first extended trip shooting only digital in small format. I'm not missing film at all for this type of photography however I did still have a small 67 kit in tow when the right light and worthy scene presented its self. I took no computers as such, this was a holiday, the last thing I wanted to see was a computer. So I used my X-Drive to DL the images as the cards filled or at the end of every day (whichever came first). I engaged in not editing or deletion, everything was copied to the portable drive then the cards were dutifully erased. I used the review functions primarily only for exposure confirmation and as metering for my medium format film shots. When I arrived home down-loading the X-Drive and thumb-nailing the images seemed like a very similar experience to laying film images out on a light table, just faster and less costly. I had forgotten a lot of what I had shot and was pleasantly surprised. I shot probably just a little more than I would have when shooting film but I've never been too conservative there either. The extra shots were generally a product of a little auto-bracketing for insurance and some pano experiments. I shot very little 120 film, in fact only one roll but then again I was rarely at the right place in the best light as the trip was a little rushed and not primarily a photo-expedition so I feel exonerated :-) You will probably see some of the images as PAW over then next few weeks. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
