There's always someone doing the dumb question, and this time, it's me!
When you say you carry 2 external hd, and you 'leave one at home' I assume you mean whichever hostel you might be in?
It's true that unfortunately I do not have the same needs you do here, but, on a 3month trip I normally use about 4x32GB sdcards (about 15k photos and maybe 30min in total of video footage). I do bring an external hd to do backups but I never delete from the original SD. I'm too afraid haha
Oh sorry, I meant I left it at home home as a backup. :) That's a good advice, to carry more SD card so that at least you have to 2 backups, on your on-the-go HD and the SD card. :)
Blake
Great article! Read it only 4 years later but still highly relevant. May I find out more from you how do you get the camera focus to be on you, when you have to set off the timer on the camera then run to the spot where you wanna be photographed at? i.e. there will be nothing to focus on at the spot cause you are still behind the camera when you press the shutter button.
Great article! Read it only 4 years later but still highly relevant. May I find out more from you how do you get the camera focus to be on you, when you have to set off the timer on the camera then run to the spot where you wanna be photographed at? i.e. there will be nothing to focus on at the spot cause you are still behind the camera when you press the shutter button.
Hey Blake, when there's nothing to focus, the camera will focus on the landscape which increases the aperture to infinity which will put everything in the frame in focus hence I am in focus when I put in on timer and a tripod. :) I hope this helps!
Hey Blake, when there's nothing to focus, the camera will focus on the landscape which increases the aperture to infinity which will put everything in the frame in focus hence I am in focus when I put in on timer and a tripod. :) I hope this helps!
Hi Pete,
Thanks for your reply! Unfortunately I still don't quite understand. Doesn't it depend on the aperture? Even if you are focus on the landscape/ infinity, at say even f8.0, when you later get in the frame at around 8 feet from the camera, won't you be out of focus cause you are no where near the background?
Happy to take this offline with you if it's going to be a lengthy discussion! :) let me know if I can reach you via email.
There's always someone doing the dumb question, and this time, it's me!
When you say you carry 2 external hd, and you 'leave one at home' I assume you mean whichever hostel you might be in?
It's true that unfortunately I do not have the same needs you do here, but, on a 3month trip I normally use about 4x32GB sdcards (about 15k photos and maybe 30min in total of video footage). I do bring an external hd to do backups but I never delete from the original SD. I'm too afraid haha
Oh sorry, I meant I left it at home home as a backup. :) That's a good advice, to carry more SD card so that at least you have to 2 backups, on your on-the-go HD and the SD card. :)
Great article! Read it only 4 years later but still highly relevant. May I find out more from you how do you get the camera focus to be on you, when you have to set off the timer on the camera then run to the spot where you wanna be photographed at? i.e. there will be nothing to focus on at the spot cause you are still behind the camera when you press the shutter button.
Hey Blake, when there's nothing to focus, the camera will focus on the landscape which increases the aperture to infinity which will put everything in the frame in focus hence I am in focus when I put in on timer and a tripod. :) I hope this helps!
Hi Pete,
Thanks for your reply! Unfortunately I still don't quite understand. Doesn't it depend on the aperture? Even if you are focus on the landscape/ infinity, at say even f8.0, when you later get in the frame at around 8 feet from the camera, won't you be out of focus cause you are no where near the background?
Happy to take this offline with you if it's going to be a lengthy discussion! :) let me know if I can reach you via email.