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In Reply to: RE: Around 9000 feet posted by LWR on July 27, 2014 at 08:53:09
The Idaho Peak in British Columbia is quite a hike as well with a peak elevation of around 8,000 ft. on top of the Selkirk Mountain ranges.
What I like about this area once you reach the summit is the smell of fresh glacier air from the nearby Kokanee Glaciers, which along with Idaho Peak is also famous for trail hikers for those who wants to explore the east Kootenay region.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
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40, gulp, years ago I was a terror with an Olympus OM-1, a few lenses and various kit. Landscapes, Zoo animals, a little arty stuff...you know.
Nowadays I take snaps with a Canon A630 digital. Easy to take, easy to edit and print but when I try to capture the lighting or details of a forest scene with the Canon, I get Blah!
My kids have a $1500 Nikon DSLR that's so complex and cumbersome they never use it.
Used to be, you could go into a big camera store and buy good used semi-pro stuff. Are there cameras as easy to use and control as the OM-1 but digital and don't cost a fortune? $500, maybe?
Compared to film, "cameras" these days are handheld computers with lenses. That's why they cost so damn much, although $500 will get you well into the game.
and set up to your heart's content & your tolerance level. Or, you can put some or all adjustments on auto and the camera will blow you away with the results. For instance, my Nikons have, in their memory, 30,000 pix that cover all manner of various scenes and lighting and shadow.
If I put it into mostly auto settings the camera compares what I snap with all that memory and matches the final auto settings to emulate the closest of the 30,000. In a nano second!
Probably 80% of the time I leave White Balance in Auto. I always use Auto Focus. ISO I will set myself but use P mode probably 50% and Aperture 30% and Shutter 5%, Manual the balance of the time.
You should get your Son's camera and learn to play with it. You will likely be amazed at what it can do and what you can be taught by using it. That said, I will never use many of the features of my Nikons but that has been true of every Nikon I have owned since the 1960's. Better to have more than I can use than to find out I have less than enough.
Learn by trying new things....all my life I was told do not shoot into the sun directly, I have spent a lifetime doing just that...Thus I can show what a wildfire does to a sunset..
Nikon DSLR is a good camera. The trick of the trade is, buy the best lens that you can afford...and then practice...practice and experiment until you find the range of the camera’s optimal operation.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
I took this photo during my fishing trip at Columbia River last year using just my Blackberry Q10 cellphone, which I thought captures the ambiance of the day....
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
We can get image quality like that from our cell phones.
Snap a pic, send it instantly, then call, "Hey did you see this? Cool, huh?"
My God. How far we have fallen ...
breathtaking view. I plan to get up that way, maybe in the Spring...If all is well here abouts.
If you ever visit the area do not forget to bring a truck load of films for your camera...hmmm... never mind.
BTW, spring is not an ideal season to hike along these areas, unless you don`t mind the Grizzlies joining you, which I am sure leisure hiking are not the first thing that come in their minds, but looking for food to feed their young. The best time of the year to hike are summer and fall.
Do not forget to visit the Slocan Lake.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
479 pix with the Nikon with the 150-500MM lens and around 1400 for the other Nikon body! If need be I can stick a second card in the first body or put bigger cards in each of them...(they hold 2 cards each). All this while shooting RAW. If I did JPEG it would be a great deal more pix...
Or, I can shoot with one card getting a RAW image at the same time the 2nd card gets the same image in JPEG...
Whew....modern tech, how fun it is...
I am just warning you that you might need a truck loads of external hard drives to store those mega million pixel pics once you get here...Anyway, do not blame me if you suffer a camera clickinitis after a few days of hiking.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
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