Remember when digital cameras were pretty new? 4 Megapixels and the like. You’d push the button and it’d be a second before it’d take the photo. That’s fine for the family of twelve who are photographing themselves with MeeMaw’s new Nikon, blocking the view off the rim of the Grand Canyon. But you try to station someone at the bottom of a waterfall you’re about to kayak over. You wind up with a lot of photos of a waterfall, with an occasional blip of color at the bottom edge which may or may not be the very tippy bit of the stern of your boat. Same problem with bicycles, and that’s during the daytime. Nighttime? You’d better have read up or watched some YouTubes talking about how to make it work.
My wife’s something of a photographer now… she doesn’t do action shots. Quite the reverse. She sorta specialized in cemetery sculpture for the longest while. Not a lot of fast-twitch muscles involved in getting those shots.
I can tell you that my last camera and this one both had ‘fast frame shoot’ plus video. Fast frame, you’d fire it and it’d shoot a few frames a second. You could catch action with that one of someone going over the rapid if you started before they could start over falls, just don’t have a 16 memory camera. (128 is only way to go!)
InstaWham.
You should trademark that right NOW, Greg.
License the name to GoPro.
That’s why I still have my 30+year old Minolta 35mm SLR.
Good heavens! Do you keep it next to your buggy whip and buttonhook collection? But for you, there’s some poor schmuck in New Jersey who could retire from film processing.
HEY, you lay off, I love my old bessler and printing my own shots too.
However we found out I’m allergic to all the chemicals, for developing film and for developing prints. (run 104 fever for three days, or start barfing for about four hours about 3 hours after printing)
I love my Olympus Camedia 740 to pieces but the delay on shutter was past maddening. I have two accidental shots with it that are world class and it was totally I snapped and the universe lined up for me.
With my latest SLAB phone, 12 megapixels, can do the couple frames a second shooting, the single shot responds pretty darn fast, and it does pretty good video too and I can snitch single frames off it. I’m afraid the big bouncing camera on a strap whapping my sternum is no more…..
In fact Saturday I ran around in blithering cold (on three broken toes) taking carriage ride shots, and have most of the pictures ready for the customers already. Taken with the slab phone. I will say one thing, I thank above I didn’t break my face (even if my doc chewing me out and an enforced week of bed arrest, it was still worth it)
with only the bike doing the crashing part.