Great info, lads and lassies! Thank you! I'm delighted to hear fans for the mirrorless system. Today's ride in 3" of snow, with clumps and powder blowing off the trees as I took photos, reminded me of the experiment this is. To get weatherproof mirrorless is pricy, so my choice to go with the Olympus trailing edge tech in the hope it works, but also with an eye on an adventure camera (yeah, that's a thing .. weren't all cameras adventure cameras back in the day? Sardonic grin.): Olympus Tough TG 6. Time will tell.
On the tripod side, I was delighted to find that Velbon still makes them, still in aluminum, and basically the same as I used for years but somehow misplaced. My GorillaPod fell apart to the point of unusable: the plethora of ball and socket joints just doesn't hold up to abuse well. With abandon, Patrick On Sunday, June 7, 2020 at 1:49:31 PM UTC-6, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > I've no longer a mobile phone and thus no longer have the incorporated > camera and it's happy ability to take a burst of photos after a set delay > of 20 seconds or so. Kai kindly recommended Sony, and in my research I > ended up finding the simplicity of mirrorless, which presumably means > heartier (I'll test that!), then, in looking for older models that do what > I want so I don't pay for all the latest bells and whistles, I found > Olympus' Pen E-PL8, which is long in the tooth and thus happily under $300 > with lens for a step uyp from a point and shoot or adventure camera. I have > it coming, along with a better tripod and a leather case. I plan to carry > it in my XS Saddlesack handlebar bag. > > Curious what folks going digital, who are into photography are > doing/using. I love the simplicity of the mobile phone, but miss the > qualities and settings of a higher end camera. It seems there are the point > and shoots (not many as mobile phones do this), adventure cameras, which > are a step up but still feature shy without spending a fortune, and then > the higher end cameras (recommendations for ones that are weather proof and > heartier?). > > What do you like, not like about what you are using? How do you haul it, > use it, etc? > > With abandon, > Patrick > > www.MindYourHeadCoop.org > www.DeaconPatrick.org > www.CatholicHalos.org > www.ShepherdsandHalos.org > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/572b259d-702f-4041-87d6-52936b4ee4cbo%40googlegroups.com.
