[Philmont] Digital camera advice

I second the viewfinder. Backlit liquid crystal displays (LCDs), such as on
laptops and digital cameras, are notorious for being unviewable in sunlight.

In addition, an LCD works by twisting and polarizing light. If you wear
polarized sunglasses in sunlight, they may make it all but impossible to
view the camera's LCD, due to cross polarization.

Turn the display, image stabilization and flash off. Most such features are
designed for indoor shots. Enjoy the great outdoors!

/Neal

On 6/14/07, latimerdk@verizon.net <latimerdk@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I would also recommend taking a digital camera. One thing I look for in a
> digital camera is having a view finder and a display. On long trips in
> remote areas like Philmont or Northern Tier I turn the display off and use
> the view finder to take pictures. I can admire my creations later. I've
> used a Canon S400 on 3 treks and with 1 spare battery I have been able to
> take over 700 pictures on each trek. I'm about ready to replace it with a
> SD850IS. The S400 still works fine and it's hanging out at Ponil with my
> son who I hope will take more pictures this summer than he did last
> summer. So if you go through Ponil remind Thomas to take some pictures.....
> Doug
>
>

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Received on Thu Jun 14 12:27:44 2007