Haz-Fest Winter 2003

Yea...ME! =)

Made a buddy take a few pics of my rig, most of them are of the other guys. Although he got a few on his camera of my rig too. Who knows, I might make the final cut in the video too?? LOL.

Digital is cheap. Film is better quality. Digital is harder for action shots. I hate breaking my 35mm or getting it muddy. Digital it is.... =)

I used my Nikon D1x at several rock crawling events this summer and the results were superb. No shutter lag, but only a 9 frame buffer and only

The more "point & shoot" digitals are really too slow for any action shooting unless you shoot very small JPEG files.

Thanks! Yep, cant afford the type of digital I need for this, so I just make do. Any of the big week long trips I usually take film and digital both. But not weekend stuff anymore.

BUNCH of film cameras. <

I still have my 2 Nikon film cameras, but after a year or so of shooting digital I don't know why. I took a film body to Moab this year because I didn;t want to lug the D1x and a laptop around, but ended up going "where's my preview" all weekend. Haven't shot 10 rolls of film total since the D1x showed up. I did pick up an Nion 5400 just for Jeeping and walking around, amazing image quality for such a little rig.

LOL Great page, Jenn! Got any pix? ;-) Jeez, what the heck did you do, get a new digital camera? ;-)

Tom told me to "take lots of pics"....so I did. =) So far two other sites are up with pics, and more to come I suspect.

Saw the Oregon plates - what area is this? Outside of Hood?

I live in Portland.

No, its private land down near Grants Pass.

Approximately 11/21/03 17:01, twaldron uttered for posterity:

Yeah, I'm waiting for a good Minolta digital 35mm back to come down to my "toy budget" range so I can keep the investment in lenses I already have. Hopefully by that time it may be possible to get a USB hookup from the camera to a small PDA with a huge memory or mini-DVD so I don't need to lug around a laptop as a picture storage. Meanwhile, I just keep the old slide/film scanner fired up and use the old Maxxum and Nikon.

sticks/cards. Of course if you already have a laptop, that's the cheaper way to go.<

You can get some USB/FW hard drives that are very compact and allow you to just dump the files during the day, then DL the hard drive to the laptop or to a server. For long treks a digitals SLR's main problem becomes battery usage, as you've no way to recharge and have to carry szeveral full charged spares, which is more weight for the pack.

Went to a gallery opening last night and the talk among the local photographers was "Is this is the year to go digital?, or, "I'm already digital, now everything's been upgraded, so I have to buy new bodies, lenses, computers, Photoshop CS, Epson 4000 printer.....boy, film sure was cheap!"