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The photo-blog of an entirely unknown photographer.
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So yeah, I'm posting this a month and a half late. Over July 4th of this year, I went canoeing/camping with my friend Peter. Peter and I used to work together and snowboard together all the time - now we're both so busy with random life things that we don't see each other as much as we probably ought to. Still, he had a trip going to the boundary waters and a spot opened up. After quite a bit of indecision on my part I decided to just go.
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I can't really go to a place as beautiful as the boundary waters and NOT bring a camera. What camera to bring and how to manage it all was a matter of some ponderance for me. Eventually I settled on bringing the 20D, 24-70f/2.8L, 2 extra cards and batteries, and my SD400 Digital Elf (Point and shoot digital cam). I'm still not courageous enough to take a DSLR out canoing with me. During transit the 20D was wrapped in about 4 layers of water-sealed plastic bagging. The SD400 I brought along so I could take pictures from the canoe. In 2006 I destroyed a cheap 4 megapixel Pentax point and shoot while kayaking Lake Superior. It's not fun to trash a $200 camera, but it's a lot better than trashing a $1200 camera or $1500 lens.
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So that's why the pictures from the camp site look better than pictures from the canoe. The trip itself was a lot of fun. I think next year- if we go - we're going to setup some parameters for the trip earlier on. Some people in the group were interested in going crazy and adventuring, others in hanging out and relaxing (to the point of portaging around 8 liters of wine!) So lesson learned: make sure everyone is on the same page.
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I spent hardly any time shooting up there. Let me say that if you think people get annoyed with you taking their picture normally, on day 3 of camping when everyone looks like, well, looks like they've been camping for 3 days - they like it even less. So I didn't do a lot of shooting. Also, I was very tired and busy being co-"camp dads" with Peter.
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My technical note is more of a personal preference note. Ever since I got the 5D I've shot almost nothing on the 20D - I've forced myself to use it 2 or 3 times and I use it for my telephoto work at weddings, but there's really no comparing those 2 bodies. I'll take the 5D every single time. That having been said, once I'm back to shooting on the 20D only, with the 5D not even around, I adapt back to it pretty quickly and don't really miss the 5D at all. There's no one specific thing that I find the 20D doesn't do where the 5D does. The 5D is just a little nicer in a lot of little ways.
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