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  1. bartjeej

    GAS What was your best purchase of 2022?

    I made no photographic purchases this year. Money's tight. The closest I came is when I ordered a free sample pack of several fine art paper types that's now undergoing real-world aging testing for about a year before I make a decision (I plan to frame my future prints without glass for...
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    GAS Dear Giary!

    A sling bag can either hug your body to distribute weight, or not have that much contact with your body and concentrate all the weight on one shoulder, making it kind of like an out-of-the-way messenger bag. But if you want a breezy back and good weight distribution, a waist pack is the way to...
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    GAS What was your best purchase of 2021?

    Fuji XF10. Even though it's not quite as nice to use as the X100, it has a minimalist user interface that does the exposure triangle and not much else, but then that's all I need. Same great jpegs, and unlike the X100 it goes everywhere with me because it's small enough to not bother me, whereas...
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    GAS Dear Giary!

    Well, if you're shooting moving subjects most of the time (as many streetshoters do), there's limited value to IBIS indeed. Unless you deliberately want to create movement effects ofcourse. I'd still rather have it on hand than not have it, but at the same time I can't say I've missed all that...
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    GAS Dear Giary!

    Marktplaats.nl has both peer to peer and B2C sellers, but for P2P it probably has a market share of over 90% so there's quite a lot to be found there. Are you looking at refurbishing stores as well? You pay a premium compared to P2P but there's often a limited warranty.
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    GAS GAS: Please Share your Latest Desires Big and Small

    I'm happier with my XF10 than I ever expected to be. Nothing fancy, but it was cheap new and cheaper still used, it's simple and gets out of the way, and the image quality of the 24mp Bayer sensor is stunning, they really put a very good lens on it. AF isn't the fastest but not as unusably slow...
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    GAS Dear Giary!

    Yeah the sloshing thing bothers me when I'm hiking out in nature. Haven't found a solution yet (I don't like hydration bladders). But other than that, it sounds great!
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    GAS Dear Giary!

    Looks good! Have you tried walking around with a full bottle in it yet?
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    GAS Dear Giary!

    I use a cheap camera insert with plenty (too much for my liking) of padding, inside quite expensive non-camerabags that are all about ruggedness and carrying comfort.
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    GAS GAS: Please Share your Latest Acquisitions Big and Small

    You mentioned being on the lookout for one of these, Olli. Nice that you got it and rationalised your gear! Hope it'll be just as capable and more fun than you expected;) Personally I probably would've chosen the VI over the Va due to the longer lens, but I assume you went Va for the low light...
  11. bartjeej

    GAS Dear Giary!

    I tend to carry more gear, water and food than is comfortable for any single shoulder carrying solution, so slings are out for me. Also for reasons of stability, stabilizer straps nonwithstanding. I carry a submersible waterproof waist pack, that's starting to become a bit small given the...
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    GAS Dear Giary!

    Chris Niccols of DPReview TV picked a Wotancraft 10L bag as his gear of the year, and he's handled a whole lotta different bags and camera bodies. And it has a bottle holder on the side. I added a MOLLE bottle holder to the belt of my waist pack, but don't really enjoy the bounce of the bottle...
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    GAS Dear Giary!

    Congrats on the insight and gear simplification! Sounds like you can live with the RX100v not being a camera you'll love, and they sure are capable.
  14. bartjeej

    GAS Dear Giary!

    I've been pondering these questions a lot today. Looking at my favourite shots over the years, the 'camera you have with you' factor is definitely number one for me. I hardly ever go out and shoot with an image or goal in mind; in fact I hardly ever go on a dedicated photo outing. I tend to just...
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    GAS Dear Giary!

    I've been racking my brain to find what best suits my needs as well. I feel there are 2 basic reasons to use a camera: to get the result you want, and to enjoy the process of taking the photo. That's not to say that the latter will result in lesser photos; to many photographers including myself...
  16. bartjeej

    GAS GAS: Please Share your Latest Acquisitions Big and Small

    Nice! I love the idea of the X-Pro3, and the idea of using an OVF in particular. But since I'm also thinking about going longer, lenswise, to at least 35mm (possibly 50mm), I wonder if I wouldn't just end up using the EVF. In which case an XT3 would be a slightly less sexy version of exactly the...
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    Straps Peak Design call out Amazon

    I was pleased to see Amazon subsidiary DPReview also mention this.
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    GAS GAS: Please Share your Latest Acquisitions Big and Small

    I got myself a bit of gear that is almost anti-photography in its purpose for me, at least in the short term. Photography can be a great way of encouraging you to look differently. But especially now that my only fully reliable camera is my phone, I find that its UI causes me to break out of...
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    Bags Rockin a Fanny

    Waist pack and hip pack are two of the less awkward names, and work whether you carry it at the front or rear. Millican has two expensive but nice waist packs. On the cheap, there are some running waist packs that cinch down nicely whwn you dont neer volume. Some of them have external bottle...
  20. bartjeej

    Advice Wanted How to gets pics off of late 1990's "Intel Minicard" memory cards?

    Wouldnt it be easier to get a rs232 to usb adapter? Ebay seems to have plenty of them. Apparently you will need some sort of conversion software for it to work, but it looks like it's possible.
  21. bartjeej

    GAS GAS: Please Share your Latest Acquisitions Big and Small

    A paid / sponsoring membership of SeriousCompacts.com... other than that, I haven't made any photography-related expenses in the past nearly-4 years :-O unless you count travel costs...
  22. bartjeej

    My travel kit, what's yours?

    -Fuji X100 -Samsung EX1 (remember those?) -Nexus 7 tablet -Charger for each Would like to turn this into: -X100f -Sony RX10.2 -small inexpensive waterproof camera that i don't mind whipping out even in questionable areas -A new tablet -A smartphone printer, haven't decided on a model or...
  23. bartjeej

    Bags Please help me solve a bag conundrum...

    Yeah, I ended up buying a "tactical" shoulder bag for the same reason. Thankfully there's a flap over the molle webbing to take the edge off the military vibe a bit, but in terms of functionality, it's hard to beat. I'm considering making my own bag some day, combining all of my favorite...
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    Bags Please help me solve a bag conundrum...

    :laugh1:short of "NinjaPack", that's the most Ninja-ish name I've ever heard for a backpack :p thankfully it looks somewhat friendlier than it sounds ;)
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    Bags Please help me solve a bag conundrum...

    I'd like to point out that none of the black nylon bags that were suggested are truly wannabe-SAS. They're more 'hey people, there's fancy electronics in here!'. If you really wanna see some wannabe SAS gear, google "tactical bag"..... it's not truly ninja if it doesn't have a bunch of molle...
  26. bartjeej

    Cleaning What's your experience with cleaning dust on a sensor in a camera with a fixed (zoom) lens?

    Hi Peter! If I understand it correctly, your question is about how companies deal with it once you send the camera to them; not how to clean the sensor yourself? Just clarifying, I don't have any experience with either :tongue: so I can't really be of help here:redface:
  27. bartjeej

    Filters Hoya (or any type) filters

    ^ be aware that there're large differences in quality between B+W's budget lines and their higher lines - the budget lines have the reputation of not being any better than similarly priced competitors, sometimes worse.
  28. bartjeej

    Filters Hoya (or any type) filters

    Hi Shaka! Congrats on the Nikon, looking forward to seeing some pictures with it! UV filters don't do much for your image quality unless you're high up in the mountains, in which case they remove the blue cast that's caused by the abundance UV light that hasn't been filtered out yet at that...
  29. bartjeej

    Protection Weather Resistant Compact?

    I've been waiting for a camera like that for ages... slowwwwwly but surely the manufacturers are moving in that direction...
  30. bartjeej

    Protection Weather Resistant Compact?

    The Sony RX10 has some weather sealing, but probably not the same level as for instance an OM-D. The Fuji X-S1 has some seals on the lens. Other than that, you'll have to look for the Nikon AW-1. All the WR lenses for the OM-D series and the GH3 are too large for what you describe. The 35/2.8...
  31. bartjeej

    Protection Waterproof Cameras

    I've been thinking along those lines as well. I'm keeping an eye out for clearance sales of the now "outdated" TX20, or a good price on the Olympus TG-630 (Olympus' mid level waterproof). I'm also still waiting for someone to make the camera Eryx suggested though (waterproof camera with (for...
  32. bartjeej

    Protection Waterproof Cameras

    DPReview have just started a series of waterproof-camera-reviews, they've done the Canon D20 and Olympus TG-2 so far (TG2 got a silver award). Panasonic TS4 and TS5 are still highly regarded, not really exceptional in any specific area but very capable in pretty much every respect. Sony's TX**...
  33. bartjeej

    Protection How to cope with freezing temperatures

    I think most cameras should be fine if you keep them close to your body and only take them out for shooting, and then quickly put them back again... but I've never tried below -10 degrees or so. Waterproof compacts should do well even in very cold temperatures (usually rated to -10 degrees C...
  34. bartjeej

    Protection Favorite Type of Case (or not?)

    I carry my EX1 in a soft leather zippered case with a little bit of padding. It doesn't add a whole lot of thickness, it follows the shape of the camera so there's no excess, but it'll protect the camera pretty well if I let it slip from my hands, I'm quite confident it wouldn't hurt the camera!
  35. bartjeej

    Protection Weather resistant system..????

    Unfortunately no weather-resistant CSC's yet (I've been looking out for one ever since the CSC segment was created), but according to 43rumors, the upcoming 12-35mm X lens and the 35-100mm X lens will both have weather sealing. If that's correct, it seems reasonable to assume that there'll be a...
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