Never trust a Met man...
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How do you take photos on the move?
I carry a Canon S100 in a pouch on my belt -all these pictures are hand-held.
If you are not confident you can do this safely, do not yada yada yada...
My cameras lead a hard life and are lucky to survive two years. This one is on its first trip and I've just bought a used spare off eBay...
Mike
I carry a Canon S100 in a pouch on my belt -all these pictures are hand-held.
If you are not confident you can do this safely, do not yada yada yada...
My cameras lead a hard life and are lucky to survive two years. This one is on its first trip and I've just bought a used spare off eBay...
Mike
Impressed as always with your photos, recognise a few places out there.
You look like a normal proportioned chap so I too am curious how to "shoot on the move" as my S90 buttons are small (or fingers so large) - more explanations required please - at your leisure
Keep it coming.
Impressed as always with your photos, recognise a few places out there.
You look like a normal proportioned chap so I too am curious how to "shoot on the move" as my S90 buttons are small (or fingers so large) - more explanations required please - at your leisure
Keep it coming.
I take it you've never met Mike...!?!?!?
Impressed as always with your photos, recognise a few places out there.
You look like a normal proportioned chap so I too am curious how to "shoot on the move" as my S90 buttons are small (or fingers so large) - more explanations required please - at your leisure
Keep it coming.
Being "normally proportioned" is not something I've been accused of before
I'm 6'6" with hands like shovels. I wear elkskin roper gloves - if you're having difficulties with the buttons on a Canon S series - I'd advise you to keep practising. I used to glue a small peg on top of the on/off button, but I've not bothered on the last two and haven't noticed any difficulty...
I use a small Canon which I wear on a lanyard around my neck and keep tucked into the breast pocket of my jacket. When I see something I want to snap I simply use my left hand to retrieve the camera, switch it on and rattle off a few shots before returning the camera to the pocket.
Invariably though you'll always end up missing a shot as you only spot the target at the last moment but are travelling too quickly to be able to catch it. C'est la vie.
I know that Mike has a "holster" or pouch for his camera and uses the same method as I albeit without the lanyard.
HTH
There's no way I'd ride a bike with a lanyard around my neck unless it had a 'weak link' thing like security card lanyards tend to have 
.
Not dropped a camera in 12-odd years of using the pouch on the belt method - but whatever works for you...
. Not dropped a camera in 12-odd years of using the pouch on the belt method - but whatever works for you...
I'm interested in your shooting technique ..... with which hand do you hold the camera ..... what mode or aperture do you tend to use ....... is the camera left permanently "on" ...... what sort of battery life do you get ....... do you use a fixed or auto focus setting
Sorry for all the questions but I am interested
Sorry for all the questions but I am interested
Left handed hold on the camera - for fairly obvious reasons
. This means that all forward-facing pics on the move are inverted.I use the Auto setting for both exposure and focus when mobile - it seems to deal with most situations fairly well - I'll tilt the camera up towards the sky and half depress the shutter to get the exposure correct for the sky if it needs it (i.e. if it's going to be under exposed otherwise).
It is switched off in the pouch and I take it out and switch it on in one movement - just a case of practice. If I'm lucky I'll get a vehicle moving in the opposite direction - as long as it's not moving too fast.
If I'm riding through an area that is clearly going to be worth taking a few pictures, I keep the camera in my hand (having first selected an appropriate gear for the speed etc) and take a series. To give you an idea of my 'hit-rate' - I uploaded 140 pictures yesterday, after deleting about 20 or so for being badly framed, out of focus, or pictures of my tank bag
As I have owned several S100s, I have six spare batteries, but cannot remember the last time I had to change one during a day's riding. I change and recharge batteries each evening to keep them all in a constantly exercised and 'ready' state.
Most importantly, I would not hesitate for a mili-second to drop the camera if safety dictated it - it's only a tool and you can always recover the card.
I carry a Canon G12 in my tank bag, but I've not used it this trip...
Mike
PS Life was a lot simpler with the old S80 - which had a shutter you slid back across the lens to switch on or off - it could have been designed for use with gloves...
Being "normally proportioned" is not something I've been accused of before
Your proportions are fairly normal, Mike. Your dimensions, on the other hand....!
15th September 2015
I had a day off the bike yesterday - a weather hold as much as anything. There were violent thunderstorms on Sunday night and heavy rain squalls moved through for most of Monday. I caught up on some sleep and some general domestic stuff and feel a lot better for it.
The Villa Emma is a strange place - obviously quite expensively refurbished in the 1970s, the decor is old fashioned, but the staff are absolutely top-notch and very helpful. The breakfast and dinner buffets are superb and the whole thing (two nights bed, breakfast and evening meal) came to about €165 - excellent value when you factor in the bottle of red wine each evening...
I wake to a bright and cloudy day, with the clean feel the mountain air has after a good soaking. My target for tonight is Innsbruck, but I have tasked Bettie with providing me a roundabout route to get there.
After a good breakfast and packing the bike, I'm on the road for 10:00 on the dot...
I completely ignore Bettie's route and turn up towards the first mountain pass I see signed...
...where cable cars are passing overhead...
The roads are quiet and I have a lazy ride up to the top of the pass...
What a beautiful part of the world...
...I reflect again on how fortunate I am to be able to enjoy it...
Onward!
A barn!
It's almost impossible to take a bad picture here (although I give it a try)...
I make pretty slow progress - it's a good job that today is a low mileage day...
I made a late start deliberately - the met forecast for Innsbruck said there were likely to be showers until about noon...
There's no sign of recent precipitation here...
...although with the amount of cloud around, it's always a chance in the mountains...
I press on - the temperature is in the mid 60s F, which makes it a very pleasant ride...
Lots of other bikes about - often in large gaggles and some performing overtakes that clearly indicated they were sick the day they taught Natural Selection in school...
Here, you can either ride fast, or look at the view. I choose not to ride fast today...
Something odd happens to the settings on my camera - I only notice it a couple of hours later...
The aspect ratio of all the pics has changed - they're now square...
Hey-ho...
Lots of cyclists on the road - hats off to them - they must be incredibly fit...
I follow this couple for a few kilometres - the pillion reminds me of one of the Telly-Tubbies with the camera mounted on top of her helmet...
Spotted a couple of cars covered in dazzle-pattern tape parked in a car park. Manufacturers use this to disguise vehicles they have under test and before public launch. It looks like Land Rover are going to be releasing a convertible version of that silly looking stepped-on Range Rover soon...
Don't know what the other one was...
Should have tried to sell the pics to Autocar or something, I suppose...
Onward!
About an hour and a bit from Innsbruck now - the roads are occasionally damp, showing that the met forecast was accurate today...
Bettie routes me towards the Brenner Pass...
...but keeps turning me down little side roads to make the trip more fun...
I stop to fill up and can only get 95 Octane - the chap behind the till (whose English was excellent) told me that 100 Octane 'Blu' production had ceased ten days ago and it wouldn't be available any more. Whether this was just for Agip, or a government decision wasn't clear...
The Brenner Pass is a major route between Italy and Austria - an Autostrada and a railway cross the pass and the border here...
Bettie keeps me off the Autostrada, and we follow the original winding road...
...which follows the Autostrada for most of the way, coiling under it and back as the altitude increases...
When we eventually reach the border - it's like any other border town - full of shops offering special offers on articles that are clearly more expensive the other side of the border.
Aimed firmly at those who consider shopping a leisure activity...
Austria doesn't look too different...
Bettie continues to keep me off the beaten track...
...via the odd 82 second delay...
...until she deposits me at the Gashaus Gruberhof (what a great name!), with a slightly 'boarding school dorm' style of room, but excellent Wi-Fi, a garage for the bike and...
...somewhere nice...
...to write up the journal.
Good day
I had a day off the bike yesterday - a weather hold as much as anything. There were violent thunderstorms on Sunday night and heavy rain squalls moved through for most of Monday. I caught up on some sleep and some general domestic stuff and feel a lot better for it.
The Villa Emma is a strange place - obviously quite expensively refurbished in the 1970s, the decor is old fashioned, but the staff are absolutely top-notch and very helpful. The breakfast and dinner buffets are superb and the whole thing (two nights bed, breakfast and evening meal) came to about €165 - excellent value when you factor in the bottle of red wine each evening...
I wake to a bright and cloudy day, with the clean feel the mountain air has after a good soaking. My target for tonight is Innsbruck, but I have tasked Bettie with providing me a roundabout route to get there.
After a good breakfast and packing the bike, I'm on the road for 10:00 on the dot...
I completely ignore Bettie's route and turn up towards the first mountain pass I see signed...
...where cable cars are passing overhead...
The roads are quiet and I have a lazy ride up to the top of the pass...
What a beautiful part of the world...
...I reflect again on how fortunate I am to be able to enjoy it...
Onward!
A barn!
It's almost impossible to take a bad picture here (although I give it a try)
...
I make pretty slow progress - it's a good job that today is a low mileage day...
I made a late start deliberately - the met forecast for Innsbruck said there were likely to be showers until about noon...
There's no sign of recent precipitation here...
...although with the amount of cloud around, it's always a chance in the mountains...
I press on - the temperature is in the mid 60s F, which makes it a very pleasant ride...
Lots of other bikes about - often in large gaggles and some performing overtakes that clearly indicated they were sick the day they taught Natural Selection in school...
Here, you can either ride fast, or look at the view. I choose not to ride fast today...
Something odd happens to the settings on my camera - I only notice it a couple of hours later...
The aspect ratio of all the pics has changed - they're now square...
Hey-ho...
Lots of cyclists on the road - hats off to them - they must be incredibly fit...
I follow this couple for a few kilometres - the pillion reminds me of one of the Telly-Tubbies with the camera mounted on top of her helmet...
Spotted a couple of cars covered in dazzle-pattern tape parked in a car park. Manufacturers use this to disguise vehicles they have under test and before public launch. It looks like Land Rover are going to be releasing a convertible version of that silly looking stepped-on Range Rover soon...
Don't know what the other one was...
Should have tried to sell the pics to Autocar or something, I suppose...
Onward!
About an hour and a bit from Innsbruck now - the roads are occasionally damp, showing that the met forecast was accurate today...
Bettie routes me towards the Brenner Pass...
...but keeps turning me down little side roads to make the trip more fun...
I stop to fill up and can only get 95 Octane - the chap behind the till (whose English was excellent) told me that 100 Octane 'Blu' production had ceased ten days ago and it wouldn't be available any more. Whether this was just for Agip, or a government decision wasn't clear...
The Brenner Pass is a major route between Italy and Austria - an Autostrada and a railway cross the pass and the border here...
Bettie keeps me off the Autostrada, and we follow the original winding road...
...which follows the Autostrada for most of the way, coiling under it and back as the altitude increases...
When we eventually reach the border - it's like any other border town - full of shops offering special offers on articles that are clearly more expensive the other side of the border.
Aimed firmly at those who consider shopping a leisure activity...
Austria doesn't look too different...
Bettie continues to keep me off the beaten track...
...via the odd 82 second delay...
...until she deposits me at the Gashaus Gruberhof (what a great name!), with a slightly 'boarding school dorm' style of room, but excellent Wi-Fi, a garage for the bike and...
...somewhere nice...
...to write up the journal.
Good day
Nice one
(Meanwhile closer to home, A47, closed E&W at Scarning junction) Oops.
(Meanwhile closer to home, A47, closed E&W at Scarning junction
) Oops.
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might be new engine as it looks the same as the current one
might be new engine as it looks the same as the current one
Mike. Really good to read your ride report as it comes through. Very familiar with some of the areas you've covered but I'm normally in a 4 wheeled device and no time to stop (even if I do deliberately take the long routes sometimes, just to get some enjoyment out of a work trip 
).
I'm interested in your camera choice. Even more interested that you don't have some kind of lanyard attached! But hats off to you for never having dropped one! I think I'd have mine on one. Which brings me to a question. I hit some serious flippin rain on my trip this summer, so how does your camera fare in the rain? I've been looking at one of the waterproof/dust proof cameras from Panasonic. But that was for the holiday (you've now got me thinking I could try your technique also?). So far I've been using the Drift Ghost with the remote to select function (usually video or stills), picture quality is good, but the downside is I have to point my head exactly where I want to shoot, which isn't always possible or advisable
. Your technique would solve that 
Keep the report coming! Or are you back already? I didn't look at the date of your last entry!
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). I'm interested in your camera choice. Even more interested that you don't have some kind of lanyard attached! But hats off to you for never having dropped one! I think I'd have mine on one. Which brings me to a question. I hit some serious flippin rain on my trip this summer, so how does your camera fare in the rain? I've been looking at one of the waterproof/dust proof cameras from Panasonic. But that was for the holiday (you've now got me thinking I could try your technique also?). So far I've been using the Drift Ghost with the remote to select function (usually video or stills), picture quality is good, but the downside is I have to point my head exactly where I want to shoot, which isn't always possible or advisable
. Your technique would solve that 
Keep the report coming! Or are you back already? I didn't look at the date of your last entry!
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Mike's reports are about as real time as they get!
Hi Mike
Can I ask what preference you use on your Tom Tom. ... Avoid motorways .. Shortest route etc
Is yours one of the new models with the
"Biker route" option ?
Can I ask what preference you use on your Tom Tom. ... Avoid motorways .. Shortest route etc
Is yours one of the new models with the
"Biker route" option ?
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