It's snowing and raining in Reston and I wanted to go out protecting my cam. I build hte stuff with a plastic bottle and a plastic bag.
You need to move the bottle when zooming wide angle to avoid vignetting. Did the job although my plastic bag was not very transparent so I had problem to see the LCD screen.
Cheap ... worked ... might still buy something.
Lionel
PS : In reality the 10D looks less plastic than that ;-) :-)
Hey, what ever works.
looks like you will be entering this week.
If I get in a bind like you, I may have resort to invention or copying your method.
Good luck.
I have also seen a few interesting devices that people have built that allows you to attach your umbrella to a tripod. The only drawback to that is that you need to hold on to the tripod to keep the wind from blowing it over :)
I was proud of me with that thing and it did allow me to take pictures. But on a few of them wide angle I forgot to 'slide' the bottl back and got some vignetting ;-) Like on this one
BUt otherwise it did work. Except the plastic was not very transparent.
BHphoto has diffrent items, this one the cheapest :
Get a L lens, it can weather the elements. The camera shoudl be OK in rain as well... it's not quite a 1v body, but close :)
Originally posted by lionelm:
It's snowing and raining in Reston and I wanted to go out protecting my cam. I build hte stuff with a plastic bottle and a plastic bag.
You need to move the bottle when zooming wide angle to avoid vignetting. Did the job although my plastic bag was not very transparent so I had problem to see the LCD screen.
Cheap ... worked ... might still buy something.
Lionel
PS : In reality the 10D looks less plastic than that ;-) :-)
I was proud of me with that thing and it did allow me to take pictures. But on a few of them wide angle I forgot to 'slide' the bottl back and got some vignetting ;-) Like on this one
BUt otherwise it did work. Except the plastic was not very transparent.
BHphoto has diffrent items, this one the cheapest :
Mind if I turn this bug into a feature by documenting that this is a completely DPC-legal way to achieve an oval vignette on your old-style photo? Perhaps you can elaborate on the technique in the future. I particularly want to know if your recommend the use of caffeinated or non- beverages to provide the resource materials...
I used a variant of the system described HERE on my trip to Iceland, where there was a constant high wind and it was often hailing, snowing or raining. It worked quite well.
Thanks to Froober who scanned these pages for me, and provided me with this info before my trip :).
Darn, I wish I'd seen this last night. I went from Maryland down into DC to do some night shooting of the monuments. I managed to arrive just in time for the monsoon. I ended up protecting my camera with my rainjacket. Of course, this resulted in the jacket not being on me. :) WIsh I'd seen this yesterday! Now I just need to figure out how to set up something similar on my A40.
