At 05:35 AM 10/03/2006, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>I mentioned temperature since my A1 gets noticeably warm to the touch
>with lots of shooting over several hours and the screen and anti-shake
>left on continuously. I don't know what's going on at the sensor but
>the CF card gets much hotter than the camera body.
[snip]
That's why I leave my A1 powered-down between shooting
sessions. Since the wee beastie's got significant shutter lag
anyways, and since I don't favour the shooting style of split-second
decisive moments, I'll wander around with the A1 off, find my
picture, compose it in my mind, etc., and finally power-up the A1 to
take the shot (or few shots). Then it's turned off until my next
series of shots. Some people complain that the A1 takes several
seconds to power-up, but I actually find its power-down time to be
longer and (for some odd reason) much more annoying to me. Yet I've
managed to avoid significant noise from a hot sensor or body by doing
this power-on/power-off routine. Perhaps it's harder on the camera,
I don't know.
This style of using the A1 mimics how I work with my OMs, and when a
buddy of mine and I go out to shoot our digis together, he always
notices the difference in our styles of picture-taking (he's a
take-pictures-of-everything-a-hundred-times kind of guy -- he never
developed the discipline of taking the time to think about each shot,
'cause he's never owned a film camera). I come home with mebbe a
couple of CF cards filled, he'll come home with a portable hard drive
stuffed to the gills. Then he spends a day or so winnowing out the
best shots -- but to his credit, he does get some *really* good stuff! ;-)
Garth
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