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Glaciers
Flow, My Nikon Sucks |
December
16, 2003- Calafate, Argentina |
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I
made it back to from Ushuaia
all the way to Buenos Aires without many stops and very
little car trouble. The most notable stop was the Perito
Moreno Glacier, near Calafate. Instead of car trouble
I dealt with camera problems. Did I mentioned that my
Nikon sucks? |
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I suppose
I will have to take this entry down if I ever want to
get sponsorship from Nikon. Oh well. Lately my Nikon
D1 has been nothing but a pain in the ass. I should say
a pain in the neck because that's more polite. And more
accurate. The thing is so heavy it feels like an anchor
around my neck. And to keep the anchor analogy going,
I felt like throwing it into a lake, a glacier lake to
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The glacier
was a spectacular sight, no doubt. The size, the translucent
colors, even the sounds! You could hear the ice crack
like a shot then rumble like thunder as it cleaved from
the glacier and fell into the lake. I was elated to have
witnessed and taken photos of the ice as it fell into
the water, especially knowing that it had taken thousands
of years for that ice to travel from its source high in
the mountains. (The giant river of ice creeps at a pace
of about six feet per day.) But do I have those photos
to share with you here? Noooo. As I may have mentioned,
my Nikon sucks. |
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I plugged
my memory card into my computer to find nothing but images
of black and purple streaks! And this is the third time
something like this has happened. Another time they were
shots from an expedition three days into the jungle. The
other time it was after an all day hike into the mountains
to shoot condors and parrots. Each time over 70 images
were lost. Disappeared. Vaporized. Can you spell disappointment?
I can spell S-U-C-K-S! Just maybe I think I may have perhaps
possibly mentioned, my Nikon sucks. |
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I dove
headfirst into digital photography and certainly don't
regret it. Galloping digital technology is partly to blame
for my frustration. I purchased the top of the line, Nikon
D1 just three years ago and it's already a dinosaur. It's
as big as house and weighs a ton. I have been getting
better shots lately from my new pocket size point and
shoot. (The shots shown here!) My new point and shoot
has about the same number of pixels as my old D1, at small
fraction of the price and size. On top of that, it shoots
short video clips! That function can be really fun because
people have don't have a clue that you are shooting video.
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But point
and shoot's have serious limitations because you can't
change lenses. So that means nothing really close and
nothing really far. And nothing really quick because it
takes a few seconds for all the automatic functions to
kick in once you press the shudder. In spite of the drawbacks
I still might just lighten my load on my next trip and
make it my main camera. Anybody wanna buy a used Nikon
D1? Cheap? |
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