POTN Aussie Club #8 - Einsteins won't make you smart

AdamC wrote in post #10136954
The only situation I'd worry about is say, flying sand on a windy day at the beach or something, and if it was bad enough to need a filter, I'd probably not take my camera there at all.

What about the salt spray when at the seaside (esp rocky outcrops), I normally put a filter on there and it has a lovely salty mist when I get home and look at it..

joele wrote in post #10136961
What about the salt spray when at the seaside (esp rocky outcrops), I normally put a filter on there and it has a lovely salty mist when I get home and look at it..

Take a soft cloth with you. The salt won't do anything to the lens however the electronics inside may have something to say about that and if salt is getting inside the lens a filter will not seal the lens against that.

joele wrote in post #10136961
What about the salt spray when at the seaside (esp rocky outcrops), I normally put a filter on there and it has a lovely salty mist when I get home and look at it..

+1

The mist isn't just on the beach either, you can see it go for hundreds of meters into the air. My 'rents live down near the beach (500m away) down the surfcoast and everything rusts in matter of days rather than years. That salt spray is nasty, let it dry and you get salt, nice bit of sandpaper there. No surface coating will last long with that.

alexanderGARDNER wrote in post #10136978
Take a soft cloth with you. The salt won't do anything to the lens however the electronics inside may have something to say about that and if salt is getting inside the lens a filter will not seal the lens against that.

Yeah I live in (vain?) hope the dust and drip sealing keeps salt mist out too

joele wrote in post #10136993
Yeah I live in (vain?) hope the dust and drip sealing keeps salt mist out too

Don't worry about it. You'll get so many years of use from your equipment before anything bad like that happens. Just roll with it and wipe down your gear when you get back home. The images you capture are worth more than any lens ever will be.

BTW: Tax with my new 50mm 1.4 care of Bruce...on the beach, no hood, no filter.

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kewl... thanks people.
now to try and get the flammin POS Dell 122 Powervault backup machine working for weekend that decided to die 20mins ago, and ran out of warranty 12 days ago.

alexanderGARDNER wrote:
BTW: Tax with my new 50mm 1.4 care of Bruce...on the beach, no hood, no filter.

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Noice

Bruce_Bird wrote in post #10137016
Noice

Thanks again Bruce! I can't express my gratitude enough for getting me this lens.

alexanderGARDNER wrote in post #10137018
Thanks again Bruce! I can't express my gratitude enough for getting me this lens.

Well.... I can think... no, I'll stop there :P

alexanderGARDNER wrote in post #10137009
BTW: Tax with my new 50mm 1.4 care of Bruce...on the beach, no hood, no filter.

That's the Siggy 50/1.4, BTW. Nice work.

Bruce_Bird wrote in post #10137013
kewl... thanks people.
now to try and get the flammin POS Dell 122 Powervault backup machine working for weekend that decided to die 20mins ago, and ran out of warranty 12 days ago.

I'd contact Dell if it's that close, they're often pretty good about it.

Bruce_Bird wrote in post #10137032
Well.... I can think... no, I'll stop there :P

Rephrase....I WILL NOT express my gratitude any further.

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looking for some advice. On sunday very near me there is going to endro horse ride. The ride itself is not that important but I would like to use it as a dry run for the Tom Quilty which is going to be held on the same track ( or very similar ) in 2011 and I'm looking for ideas on how to make it look better than happy snaps. Thanks in advance.

and for all the city people the tom quilty is 100 miles (160 km) in 24 hours endro ride.

Nice Al. the pic not the link!

DF, these rides have early early starts and often late finishes, so off camera lighting is the key to beating the happy snaps, as is narrow depth of field. To master OCF by Sunday is a tough call. That being said, you have shown with some of your tax you can use the natural light to your advantage! You may also want to think about dragging the shutter to bring some movement into the shots as well.

Steam rising from the horse at the check points, pensive looks by supporters etc, build the story book.

BTW is the Tom Quitly a sound suppressed event of the Tom Quilty????

thanks for that damian , was planing on dawn photos .

and please leave the alleged humor alone until I have a couple of rums in me first.

Composition is your friend, no, more than that, its your oxygen. So 1000 snaps are ok but 10 thought out and composed shots would be the aim!