At 04:37 2/5/02, Andrea wrote:
Hello all -
I will be attending two Olympic events in a couple of weeks and need some
advice on what parts of my setup to bring, and hopefully some tips on
shooting outside in cold weather.
What I own: Bodies: OM-2S, OM1-MD w/ battery conversion; Lenses: 50/1.8;
24/2.8; 70-210/4.5-5.6. I also have a Winder 2, and a T20 flash.
I will be outside for one event, the Women's Super-G ski race, and inside
for one event, Women's Hockey.
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Take all of it.
Get to a major camera store and buy a copy of the "Kodak Pocket
Photoguide." It's spiral bound, about 4x5 inches in size, and has a white
cover with a dark blue lens aperture on the front. Easily fits in a shirt
pocket and camera bag pocket. Two invaluable sections in this book cover
"DAY" for daylight exposure estimating and/or planning, and "EXISTING
LIGHT" for estimating and/or planning available light exposures (indoors or
at night). Should cost less than $15. Best photography "technical
reference" I have; there's one in each of my camera bags.
Expect to use the telephoto for both the hockey and skiing events. I was
there last November when various venues were still under construction; it's
beautiful and you might want the other lenses for some landscape
shots. See a few of my Kodachromes of it here (2nd - 5th images):
http://johnlind.tripod.com/oly/gallery/olympusgallery12.html
Recommend using the OM-1MD outdoors to avoid temperature issues and loading
it with the ISO 100 to ISO 200 film you normally use. Your primary issue
is weather: the cold and whether it will be clear sky with bright sun,
heavy overcast, or something in between. Keep track of weather forecasts
and if heavy overcast is predicted for the outdoor event, you might switch
to use an ISO 400 film instead. Recommend against using the winder
outdoors in severe cold. Just as the cold affects your OM-2S cells, it
will also affect the "AA" cells in the winder. Could result in the winder
not having enough oomph to get to the next frame.
Recommend using the OM-2S indoors for the hockey and the winder. The
challenge here is not the cold, but the significantly lower lighting
level. Indoors is problematic with your slower zoom lens. You might want
to use the flash for indoor "snapshots," but it won't help photographing
the hockey game. The T-20 isn't powerful enough (you would need a GN about
3X of the T-20's GN). You will need nothing less than ISO 1600 to ISO 3200
film to shoot available light with the zoom wide open, and still be able to
reasonably stop action. Consider using B&W for this to avoid color
balancing issues. Indoor sports arena lighting is definitely *not*
daylight. Usually it's high pressure sodium vapor or a similar "high
intensity discharge" type lighting that is very difficult for most labs to
color balance when printing from daylight film. If this doesn't bother
you, then use color film.
-- John
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