Hae-Yu
02-28-2007, 12:02 PM
1: Compressed air. This is a godsend. Grab a can and pack it in your bag. It works much better than any lint-free cloth (where does all that lint you wipe off go?!!) or stupid q-tips.
2: Make every shot count. Limit your memory. Say 20 pictures to a given site. I used to take hundreds and hundreds of photos and bracket them 3 exposures for every shot. Deleting mediocre shots is difficult later because you think "maybe a crop or a photoshop will turn this into perfection." Trust me, you will rarely get around to it.
I started with 6 GB for a 4-day trip. The 1st 2 days I went through @ 4.75GB. That's about 900 pics. As I realized my predicament, I spent the night deleting the obvious bad shots and freed up just under a gig spread across 10 cards: 20 open shots here, 3 there...
This forced me to shoot on a limitation. On the 3rd, day, I planned a specific maximum of pics I would take at each site. I stopped shooting brackets and started deleting pictures. I used the histogram and zoomed more. I shot (and kept) just over 100 pictures and on day four I shot maybe 90 pictures. Overall, the pictures were far higher quality. There are no fuzzy pictures or any over/ under-exposed shots. There are no "maybes." I had to exercise skills to compose the shot the first time.
3: If you have an Olympus, Panasonic, or Fuji don't use XD cards. They are much slower than Compact Flash. I didn't shoot any RAWS because XD read/ writes are slow.
2: Make every shot count. Limit your memory. Say 20 pictures to a given site. I used to take hundreds and hundreds of photos and bracket them 3 exposures for every shot. Deleting mediocre shots is difficult later because you think "maybe a crop or a photoshop will turn this into perfection." Trust me, you will rarely get around to it.
I started with 6 GB for a 4-day trip. The 1st 2 days I went through @ 4.75GB. That's about 900 pics. As I realized my predicament, I spent the night deleting the obvious bad shots and freed up just under a gig spread across 10 cards: 20 open shots here, 3 there...
This forced me to shoot on a limitation. On the 3rd, day, I planned a specific maximum of pics I would take at each site. I stopped shooting brackets and started deleting pictures. I used the histogram and zoomed more. I shot (and kept) just over 100 pictures and on day four I shot maybe 90 pictures. Overall, the pictures were far higher quality. There are no fuzzy pictures or any over/ under-exposed shots. There are no "maybes." I had to exercise skills to compose the shot the first time.
3: If you have an Olympus, Panasonic, or Fuji don't use XD cards. They are much slower than Compact Flash. I didn't shoot any RAWS because XD read/ writes are slow.