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I post less from the i-pod touch (the one with the phone) but I read the forum nearly everyday from mine.
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Koni Kowa
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tedwhite
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If someone were to hand me either an ipod-touch or a blackberry I wouldn't know how to use them. Nor do I feel disadvantaged. I'd rather be looking at trees, mountains, brooks, people, the sky - in other words the concrete details of the real world - than staring at some small device in the palm of one of my hands.
Analog Ted
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Trius
Waiting on Maitani
Ted: It's just a tool. I was outside today, photographing a political rally.
bmattock
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The fact that you do not know how to use one does not render it useless to those who do. Horses for courses.
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tedwhite
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I'm sure you have a point, and it's well-taken. For example, I came to appreciate my friend's GPS the other day. We frequently wander around desert back roads, and it was nice to know that this particular dirt road would actually get us out of the desert wastes and onto a road we wanted to get to.
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film is exciting
The Iphone is probably simpler to operate than most digital cameras. If you can use a computer , you can use an ipod or blackberry. The concrete details of the real world do not go unnoticed when you have a fancy electronic device.
bmattock
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The point being that everyone has to find their own comfort zone, but the line they may personally draw in terms of technology they do not want is not necessarily the line others draw. One of my instructors shakes his head and makes me do extra pushups when he hears I have a 'Facetube' account (as he calls it).
Trius
Waiting on Maitani
A friend of mine shakes his head that I do not have a DSLR, nor a GPS. They seem to be "essential" for him, but of no interest to me except for exceptional circumstances ... today I photographed a political rally, and it would have been convenient to have a digi to upload to the "Facetube" page for the particular group.
I like maps and have very little problem getting where I'm going, so a GPS is of no importance to me.
But I have thought of a use for a GPS for a project I'm working on, so I may get a little handheld unit for geo-tagging the photos. I don't need no steenking maps/turn-by-turn directions. The project is a rural documentation project, and one of the delights will be "getting lost". You can bet I'll be looking for the cheapest, reliable handheld unit that jut gives me coordinates. I'll record the photo details and coordinates in a Moleskine notebook. 😀
I like maps and have very little problem getting where I'm going, so a GPS is of no importance to me.
But I have thought of a use for a GPS for a project I'm working on, so I may get a little handheld unit for geo-tagging the photos. I don't need no steenking maps/turn-by-turn directions. The project is a rural documentation project, and one of the delights will be "getting lost". You can bet I'll be looking for the cheapest, reliable handheld unit that jut gives me coordinates. I'll record the photo details and coordinates in a Moleskine notebook. 😀
bmattock
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I recently got a GPS car unit as a gift, and I like it very much. I especially like the freedom it gives me to drive out into the country and get utterly, completely, joyously lost and then when I'm ready, show me how to get back home again. Maps would be useless, there are no street signs.
May I recommend a GPS data-logger. I use a Wintec WBT-201. It's just a tiny little box that you turn on and it blinks every so often to let you know it has a signal. No readout at all. When you're done photographing, you simply upload the GPX file to your PC and then use whatever software to integrate it with your photos. That's how I've done it for a couple years now. The GPS data-logger is not much good for anything else, but you don't have to take notes when you take a shot, either.
Ah, unless you're talking about film photos. For that, you'll probably want a GPS with a digital display and yes, a notebook. Seems a trifle complicated, though.
