Gotcha! Dress warm....but mobile. I had wondered if there would be laying on the ground (I am totally down with that!), or running. Guess I was off on both. You just stand?
*makes note: minimal caffeine intake tomorrow am*
Nina, thanks for the information on the differences of the cameras.
Janice, again, congrats on your beautiful captures and what must have been an amazing day.
Sure wish I had thermal pants....
geez, I only had a turtle neck, T-Shirt, sweatshirt & jacket ... was frozen to the bone, but slow traffic going home gave me a chance to thaw a bit LOL
shut up Bawb
no standing, you sit
Chair? Will do. Got one of those. I guess a lap blanket can help since I don't have the thermal pants.
Janice, how heavy was that lens after awhile?
I brought a monopod in case someone wanted to use it, as, if you're not used to holding the weight of the camera/lens combo, it can be painful
Leia,
You can get lined Adidas running pants for $22 at Costco in the mens section. Works almost as well as thermal pants. Another tip that seems weird but works is wearing full nylons under your pants and socks.
> the worst thing about the camera is it
> is a 16+MP camera, and sports shooters
> don't want or need all those MP's LOL
OK, so I'm curious. I know on the Nikon I can choose to shoot smaller images. I can choose from 4288 x 2848 [L], 3216 x 2136 [M], 2144 x 1424. I'm pretty certain that Canon offers the same sort of option.
I've never shot anything but the largest one, but I wonder how things work at the lower resolutions. Does the camera shoot faster if you go smaller? Is there any dis-advantage to the smaller size other than the obvious one (it's smaller). I wonder if changing the image size would have any effect on the burst factor? I'm guessing it wouldn't, but I don't know.
Maybe Janice can play around a bit and see what happens. Obviously you can't do it during a production shoot, that's not a good time to experiment, but she could try it someday while just playing around.
> for what I do the 50D out performs most of the better bodies,
> but only the sports shooters will ever agree with me LOL
Actually, Nikon apparently agrees with you. They just released an updated D3 and D300, but they didn't bump the megapixels. Instead they kept them at about 12, and didn't join in the megapixel arms race. They say that they feel that's the sweet spot for size and quality at the moment, at lest with the components they're using.