Digital photography

if you do decide to sell this I could be interested - any idea of a ballpark price for this kind of setup (body and lenses)

edit- fuck only knows what page I dredged this up from. apologies

just a page back. haven't made my mind up yet though, and that'll take a while

I worry about sticking a digital compact in my jersey pocket - all that sweating, steamed up screen, moisture on the buttons. Anyone else have the same worries?

Why stick them in your jersey pocket in the first place? you can try carrying it elsewhere, such as a frame bag for example, or put it on those top tube bag designed for snack, or even a handlebar bag.

Something like this would be enough for your camera, keys, and phone;

or in a ziploc?

harder to operated the camera I reckon, how are you able to let the camera erect it's lens?

You reformatted the card, wiping it clean, I'm afraid there's no way you can get it back G, there's little hope of getting it back.

Ed in 'doesn't know how magnetic storage works' shocker.

I worry about sticking a digital compact in my jersey pocket - all that sweating, steamed up screen, moisture on the buttons. Anyone else have the same worries?

Mal's Ixus has been battered around a bit and still kicks.
I carried it on trips in a ziplock in jersey pocket just to stop it getting too wet.

harder to operated the camera I reckon, how are you able to let the camera erect it's lens?

Gee, I dunno, take it out of the bag?

I like to see you try that while riding.

1. Err, any time. Struggling riding no hands Ed, have you considered cycle training?
   
2. As cyclists, we also have the wonderful technique called "stopping" at our disposal.
   

I might invest in one of those frame bags Ed. What size one do you use for your X100? I'd quite like to throw in my phone/keys and camera.

That's the thing - I don't want to stop to take it out of a ziploc or a case. At the mo I use a p&s film camera. It goes in my right jersey pocket and I can take it out, turn it on, shoot, turn it off and put it back in the pocket with one hand whilst staying in control with the other. Basically I want what I have right now but digital. I had that with my GRD2 but startup was a lot slower than my film camera.

Hmmm, frame bag it is I reckon.

I don't remember the ricoh to be that slow when starting up.

I used a Revelate designs framesbag, but a cheap small abus one is enough, especially in the rain.

Wools I'd probably stick with film tbh. I love my DP1 and do go cycling with it but trying to shoot as I'm going along is hard. Whereas with an XA2 I can just set the zone up and take the picture.

Although saying that don't ricoh's have a zone focus setting as well?

yup

Set it to that then and job's a good'un.

Well maybe my film camera is especially quick then. Either way I wasn't happy. Once it was on all was well - it focused and took pics quickly - that wasn't the issue. It was the getting it out and getting it back in bit that felt laborious (in comparison).

To be fair a film compact is pretty fast to 'load', i move the switch to open lens cover and shoot, and it already set to infinity, my digital compact is never going to be as fast as my film compact.

I guess I'll keep shooting film then. I'm cool with that.

I've used a piece of software called disk drill on my mac and recovered stuff with quite a bit of success, you stand a better chance of recovering data if you haven't written to the card since, as doing that overwrites what may have been recoverable

#learn to read whole thread#

You reformatted the card, wiping it clean, I'm afraid there's no way you can get it back G, there's little hope of getting it back.

you idiot.

the images are still there, the sandisk software you get free with their higher end cards will retrieve them as will any data recovery software . all that's wiped is the registry, wouldn't surprise me if there are images on there you thought were long gone*

*as long as you don't shoot loads more pics on the card

you idiot.

the images are still there, the sandisk software you get free with their higher end cards will retrieve them as will any data recovery software . all that's wiped is the registry, wouldn't surprise me if there are images on there you thought were long gone*

*as long as you don't shoot loads more pics on the card

I have tried that Sandisk software - admittedly after shooting on the card lots more - and found images from like 6-9 months back but not the recent ones.

Hi folks,

there's something dust/hair like appearing on my pictures and discernible through the rear screen of my G9, done the usual with air dusting - several times now but just moved it more central!
Don't really want to have to dismantle this, anyone recommend somewhere London to get it cleaned and not bodged. Checked out Fixation mentioned earlier in thread but appears they don't touch compacts.
Cheers,

Graham Playford just south of Tower Bridge.

Also interesting post on PEtalPixel to counter people complaining the new nikon mirrorlesses sensor is too small:

Many Nikonians would have been overjoyed if Nikon’s mirrorless cameras had been announced with an APS-C sensor instead of a 1-inch one, but are DSLR-sized sensors the best fit for smaller interchangeable lens cameras? Michael Johnston over at The Online Photographer says no, arguing that Micro Four Thirds is the optimal size:

APS-C sensors work fine in fixed-lens mirrorless cameras, such as the Leica X1 and the Fujifilm X100. And while NEX is making its own splash and winning its own adherents, many have pointed out that the over-large sensor is distorting the size of the lenses, preventing them from being miniaturized in proportion to the cameras. On the other hand, Micro 4/3 really does seem to have it right: the sensor is big enough, but not too big; small enough, but not too small. The cameras are right-sized, the lenses are right-sized. Everything’s in balance. Everything fits.

Since one of the main reasons for going mirrorless is compactness, perhaps APS-C sensors should be left to larger DSLR-sized cameras like the Sony A77 (which has been getting some glowing reviews, by the way).

Micro 4/3 is the Big Kahuna [The Online Photographer]